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A Community Needs Analysis with Traveller and Roma Students on Their Experiences of Higher Education
Get PDFA Long and Winding Road: IBAR and the Foundations of Research in Irish Business and Management
Get PDFBusiness education and research in Ireland are currently flourishing and scholars in Ireland punch above their weight in the international research literature – ironically the main reason for the demise of the Irish Journal of Management. But the road to the strong performance of the business academy in Ireland is both long and winding, stretching back to before the foundation of the state and reflecting change in the Irish economy and in the education priorities of Irish society. This paper examines the history of business and management education and research in Ireland and the emergence and development of the Journal of Irish Business and Administrative Research, the precursor to the Irish Journal of Management. The paper offers some thoughts on current challenges and threats and considers whether
the internationalisation of research scholarship might sound the death knell for detailed research on business and management in Ireland
The Story of Academy-owned Journals: Irish Academy and Irish Journal of Management 1996-2025
Get PDFThis paper begins by considering the challenges and opportunities facing academy-owned, not-for-profit journals. The paper goes on to reflect on the mission, ambition and purpose of academy-owned journals by presenting a case study of the relationship between the Irish Academy of Management (IAM) and the Irish Journal of Management (IJM), tracking the journey over nearly three decades, from 1996 to 2025. Drawing on a celebratory session of the IJM at the IAM Conference 2025, where the evolution of both the academy and journal was discussed, this paper captures the origins of the IAM as remembered by its founders. Supplemented by historical documents and insights from IJM editors and past Chairs of the IAM, this paper chronicles the road travelled through
the academy and journal relationship, from the initial discussions that led to the evolution of the IJM, and through to the present day. As IJM publishes its final edition in 2025, this paper concludes by reflecting on the future for academy-owned journals in a rapidly changing publication landscape
Workplace regimes and contractual insecurity in European employment
Get PDFThis paper uses the European Working Conditions Survey to investigate how different forms of work organisation, or ‘workplace regimes’, affect the prevalence and distribution of non-permanent employment in 14 EU countries from 2005 to 2015. These regimes include variants of Lean, Learning, Simple and Taylorist forms of work organisation. In particular, the paper investigates the relative effects of workplace regimes and social and institutional factors on permanency of employment; how social and institutional factors are amplified or ameliorated by insecure workplace regimes; and how workplace regimes are characterised by particular internal gender, age and citizenship profiles of employment insecurity. Furthermore, it sheds light on the ways in which workplace regimes shape employment insecurity across worlds of capitalism
Navigating Open Research - A guide for early career researchers
Get PDFWelcome to Navigating Open Research – A Guide for Early Career Researchers. This guide is designed to help you at each stage of your research journey. From preparing your research project and discovering relevant resources (Section 1) toresearch data management and reproducibility (Section 2), writing and publishing (Section 3), sharing and publishing data (Section 4), licensing your work (Section 5) and communicating your research (Section 6) every chapter provides you with practical tips that can be implemented immediately. The focus of this guide is Open Research. Research outputs such as journal articles and book chapters are often locked behind expensive paywalls. Research data, methods, or procedures may not be accessible to others at all. Open Research aims to make scholarly outputs openly
available, accessible, and reusable for everyone, and to promote collaboration
for the benefit of research and society. Openness guarantees better documented
and more substantiated research. Open Research is also endorsed and
promoted by Irish research funders and is embedded in many institutional policies.
The National Open Research Forum has produced a National Action Plan
for Open Research which aims to establish a culture of Open Research and
envisages 100% open access to research publications in Ireland by 2030.
As you begin your research, use this guide to start a conversation about
Open Research with your supervisor, colleagues and peers. Remember that
Open Research is a journey, and you are not alone. There are fellow researchers,
colleagues and support staff at your institutional library who will help you out
along the way. The Future is Open
Measuring eccentric hip adductor strength during the Copenhagen adduction exercise: A proof-of-concept and test re-test reliability study
Get PDFObjectives
To describe a novel method for measuring eccentric hip adductor (EHAD) strength during the Copenhagen adduction exercise (CAE) and investigate the test re-test reliability of this measure.
Design
Test re-test reliability study.
Participants
Twenty male athletes aged 24 ± 6 years participated in two data collection sessions 7 ± 2 days apart.
Main outcome measures
During each data collection session, participants performed three maximal effort repetitions of the CAE with their leg supported by an ankle strap hung from a fixed barbell. We attached a commercially available load cell in-series with the ankle strap to measure peak force in Newtons (N) during the eccentric lowering phase of the CAE. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), standard error of measurement (SEM), SEM as a percentage of the mean (SEM%) and minimal detectable change at a 95% confidence interval (MDC95) were calculated for this measure of EHAD strength.
Results
Test re-test reliability was good for EHAD strength measured during the CAE on dominant (ICC = 0.84; SEM% = 3.6%; MDC95 = 33 N) and non-dominant (ICC = 0.87; SEM% = 3.3%; MDC95 = 29 N) legs.
Conclusions
This study provides proof-of-concept that EHAD strength can be measured during the CAE with good test re-test reliability
Synthesis and Exploration of the Biological Activity of Silver(I) and Rhenium(I) Complexes Containing Derivatised Phenanthroline Ligands
Get PDFAntimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global health concern that causes millions of deaths each year. There is an urgent need for novel antimicrobial agents with unique modes of action to combat the increasing instances of resistance. 1,10-Phenanthroline continues to be a useful ligand in the design of novel therapeutic agents.
Two families of derivatised 1,10-phenanthroline ligands, the first with a phenanthroline core fused with an oxazine ring (phen-oxazine), and the second with the phenanthroline core fused with a pyridine ring (phen-pyrido) with varying lipophilicity were synthesised and characterised along with their respective Ag(I) and Re(I) tricarbonyl complexes. The Ag(I) complexes were found to exhibit fluxional behaviour in solution. Antifungal testing of the phen-oxazine ligands against Candida albicans showed a clear lipophilic effect; the MIC50 values decreased from > 60 μM (R=Me), to 43.3 μM (R=Pr), to 14.6 μM (R=Hex). Complexation of phen-oxazine to Ag(I) was shown to greatly enhance the antifungal effects; all complexes held fungal growth below 15% of the negative control experiment at all concentrations tested (60 – 15 μM). The uncoordinated phen-oxazine with a propyl sidechain and its Ag(I) complex were found to be well tolerated in vivo by Galleria mellonella larvae.
The Re(I) tricarbonyl phen-oxazine complexes were found to form as a pair of diastereomers. Crystal structures were obtained for one diastereomer of the propyl derivative of the Re(I) phen-oxazine complex and of the corresponding Re(I) phen-pyrido complex. Both crystals presented as distorted octahedral fac-isomers. Irradiation of the Re(I) complexes with broad band light resulted in gradual changes in their UV-visible spectra consistent with a photochemical reaction, however, myoglobin assays did not provide evidence for CO loss upon irradiation. Cyclic voltammetry revealed that the Re(I) phen-pyrido complexes were more redox active than the corresponding phen-oxazine analogues. Synthesis of analogues Mn(I) tricarbonyl complexes of phen-oxazine and phen-pyrido was attempted but was not successful
The Possibilities and Constraints of Youth Work Practice in Youth Diversion Projects
Get PDFThis research explores the possibilities and constraints of youth work practice in Youth Diversion Projects (YDPs) in Ireland. Nine participants with extensive experience of working in YDPs, who identify as youth workers, engaged in semi-structured interviews and a focus group exploring their practice. A dynamic youth work practice is evidenced within YDPs.
Using the discourses of occupational and organisational professionalism (Evetts, 2010), a flexible and responsive youth work practice was revealed, where synergies between the occupational and organisational spaces were exploited, tensions navigated, and opportunities pursued. The type of youth work practice evidenced in this research is young person centred aiming to enable and empower young people through a process of critical and dialogical engagement. The youth workers blend both non-formal and informal educational approaches within their practice. The youth workers display a strong commitment to their profession, strengthened by the values of social justice and equality which enables them to navigate and negotiate the possibilities and constraints inherent in the YDP context.
A source of fundamental tension experienced by the research participants is the lack of recognition of youth work as a profession, by the Department of Justice (DoJ), in the policies and procedures associated with YDPs (DoJ 2022; DoJ 2023). The research participants also experienced associated tensions and constraints as the principles and values that inform youth work were not considered in the design of the procedures and operational requirement of YDPs. However, these tensions were often skilfully managed by youth workers to ensure the principles and values of youth work practice were applied and upheld.
To address the key constraint of the lack of recognition of the profession of youth work, two recommendations are made in this study. Firstly, to use reflective practice through peer learning networks, as recommended in a recent DoJ (2023) evaluation report on YDPs, using the values and principles identified in this study as an ethical framework to evidence and promote youth work practice, and enhance the professional status of youth workers. Secondly, to establish a professional association for youth workers to collectively work towards gaining recognition for youth work as a profession from the state. Such recognition should apply across the broader youth work sector, with the goal of creating a knock-on impact on all funded projects within the sector including YDPs
A Study of the User Experience of Redirected Walking in Small Tracking Spaces
Get PDFIn Virtual Reality, real walking is a natural and intuitive form of navigation. With real
walking the user physically walks to move in a virtual environment. However, with
real walking the size of the physical space needs to match the virtual space. This is
rarely feasible, especially for large virtual worlds. Redirected Walking seeks to solve
this problem by decoupling the mapping between the virtual trajectory of the user
and their physical movement. There are two broad categories of redirected walking.
Gain manipulation changes how the user’s viewpoint is moved. For example, the
user might turn at a different rate in the virtual environment than they are physically
turning. This is called rotation gain. Environment manipulation changes the virtual
environment itself - for example an expanding room.
This work aims to reduce the amount of physical space required for redirected
walking while balancing the impact of redirected walking on user experience. The first
part of this work looks at the performance of existing generalised redirected walking
methods in a small tracking space. It was found that these existing methods have
limited use in such small tracking spaces at levels that are comfortable for users. Next
we look at the turning accuracy of users with larger rotation gain. We found, for
example, at higher rotation gain levels users turned more than expected and the visual
detail of the virtual environment impacted their turning accuracy.
Finally, based on these findings, a new method of virtual rotation is created: Segment
Addition. With Segment Addition the virtual environment expands and contracts
around the user so they must turn further or shorter to reach their goal. It is
an example of an environmental manipulation method. A user study using Segment
Addition found the environment natural and comfortable for users even when large
changes were made to the virtual environment. This demonstrates Segment Addition
as a promising new technique for redirecting users in small tracking spaces
Hallensian Pietism and the development of Psychiatry in Eighteenth Century Prussia.
No full textThis thesis details the influence of Pietism on the development of Psychiatry in eighteenth-century Prussia. Although Pietism’s influence on society, culture, medicine, and science has been studied, its explicit impact on psychiatry’s development has yet to uncovered. There is a deeper connection between psychiatry as a medical discipline and the culturally and religiously informed society in which it was developed. Institutionalised Pietism developed in the late seventeenth century institutions of Halle an der Saale (hereafter known as the Glaucha Anstalten). August Herman Francke (1663-1727) founded the Glaucha Anstalten in 1695. He championed a deeply personal, introspective, and anthropologically holistic understanding of the human mind, body, and soul. The medical institutions of the Glaucha Anstalten (among them a pharmaceutical laboratory and hospitals) co-operated with the medical faculty of the nearby University of Halle, the so-called Fridericiana. They medical faculty co-operated with the Glaucha Anstalten, providing staff and lecturers to administer the institutions. Likewise, the Pietist movement organised out of the Glaucha Anstalten, exerted influence and organisational support, thereby propagating its ideals throughout Prussia. Therefore, we propose that Pietist Christian anthropology influenced medicine at the university of Halle and on the development of psychiatry in Prussia as a distinct discipline in eighteenth century Prussia