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The ERC DANCING Project Organisation and Management Report
Get PDFThis report is part of the project entitled ‘Protecting the Right to Culture of Persons with
Disabilities and Enhancing Cultural Diversity through European Union Law: Exploring New
Paths – DANCING’. This project has received funding from the European Research Council
(ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant
Agreement No. 864182). This report reflects only the authors’ views and does not necessarily
reflect those of the European Union or the ERC
The property and planning data ecosystem in Ireland: Gaps, silences and issues. Data Stories Working Paper 7.
Get PDFThis report details the key insights from two workshops held in February and April 2025 at the Central Statistics Office (CSO) in Rathmines, Dublin, co-organised by the Data Stories project at Maynooth University and the CSO. The first workshop sought to chart the entire property and planning data ecosystem for Ireland and to identify data gaps and silences and potential ways to fill these, and to note associated data-related issues. The second workshop focused specifically on data sources relating to the planning and development pipeline of new property. Across the two workshops, 59 individuals from 40 organisations (14 state, 10 business, 9 civil society, 7 research institutions) participated. The report sets out the approach adopted in the workshops, provides a high-level overview of the Irish property and planning data ecosystem, details the main data gaps and silences identified, and discusses the principal issues regarding the data ecosystem noted by workshop participants. The analysis presented is supplemented with insights from interviews with 135 property and planning experts in Ireland conducted as part of the wider Data Stories project. The report is accompanied by a spreadsheet that details all the sources of longitudinal property and planning data in Ireland, organised by theme, and including weblinks and information about available variables, data accessibility, spatial scale, time-series and timeliness
A Qualitative Investigation Into the Exercise Habits, Motivators, and Barriers Faced by HealthCare Shift Workers
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Many healthcare shift workers do not meet recommended physical activity guidelines. As a pillar of physical activity, this study explored exercise habits, motivators, and barriers encountered by healthcare shift workers.
Methods
Twelve healthcare shift workers in the United Kingdom were interviewed via semi-structured, one-to-one interviews. Data was analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis.
Results
Healthcare shift workers experience multiple biopsychosocial barriers to exercise, including inconsistent working schedules, psychophysical fatigue, emotionally challenging shifts, and familial commitments. Exercise habits and motivators were highly individualized. Occupational promotion of exercise, including on-site exercise opportunities, education on exercise prescription, and financially incentivized exercise programs were enablers. Time management and planning were crucial for sustained exercise engagement.
Conclusions
Organizations requiring shift work should promote a breadth of exercise types, and on-site exercise opportunities, at a low economic burden to promote physical activity engagement within their workforce
The developmental pathways of senior international soccer players: A 13-year analysis of the career trajectories of the Swedish men’s senior international team
Get PDFThis study explored the developmental pathways of all players (n = 313) who represented the Swedish men’s senior international team between 2011 and 2023 (n = 118) and/or the U21 international team between 2011–2022. We also examined at which respective level each player’s youth club was ranked (i.e., premier, second, or third division club, or international academy) and the age at which they were first present in that club environment. Of the 118 senior international players, 34% were selected at U15–U16, 33% were selected at U17–U18, and 33% were selected at U21 or the senior international level. Later selected (U21 and senior) players had a later senior international debut than early selected (U15–U16) players (-2.5 years, 95% CI [-4.0, -1.0 years]). Later selected players also made their senior club debut later than those selected at the U17–U18 (-1.3 years, 95% CI [-2.0, -0.5 years]) and U15–U16 (-1.9 years, 95% CI [-2.6, -1.1 years]) international level. While the majority (60%) of senior international team players entered a premier division club at some point during their junior years, players from lower clubs were overrepresented among the players who reached the senior international team without previous international team experience and made a later debut in the senior international team. We conclude that senior international players have different career trajectories and that this should be accommodated by providing structures that allow players to progress into, and out of, different development environments that best suit their individual needs as they progress to the senior level
Fostering young people’s creativity through youth work A mixed method study that explores youth work's distinctive creative potential.
No full textThis study explores the intersection of youth work and creativity, two distinct yet interrelated domains of policy, practice, and research. It examines whether the distinctive characteristics of youth work create an environment particularly conducive to fostering creativity among young people. The study argues that creativity is not merely an outcome of youth work but a fundamental feature, right, and necessity, with youth work providing the essential conditions for creative development, from foundational skills to domain-specific expertise.
The primary research question guiding this study is: In what ways do the distinctive features of youth work relate to its potential to foster creativity in young people? To address this, the study employed a mixed-methods approach, combining two national online surveys—one targeting youth workers and the other focused on young people—along with eleven ‘story circles’ to facilitate in-depth discussions. A total of 242 participants from 27 counties provided valuable qualitative and quantitative insights.
This research represents the first national study to examine the role of youth work in fostering creativity among young people. It highlights the inherent creativity within youth work, demonstrating through both theoretical insights and empirical findings how youth work supports major dimensions of creativity when practiced by skilled and experienced youth workers. Every key feature of youth work has the potential to nurture creative expression, innovation, and social transformation.
Despite its significant contributions to creativity, youth work remains underrepresented in creativity-related policies, revealing a critical gap in recognition and investment. The study calls for a stronger integration of youth work within policy frameworks to ensure a more equitable distribution of creative opportunities, particularly beyond formal education settings. Strengthening the alignment between youth work and creativity policies can enhance youth work’s role as a key driver of creative development and social change
The number of phosphorus loss events will increase with variability and seasonality in far future climate scenarios
Get PDFClimate change is likely to add further pressures to water quality degradation across the globe. The development of robust climate-smart mitigation measures necessitates understanding the impact of extreme hydrological events on catchment hydrology and nutrient losses. Here, empirical modelling (EM) was applied on 14 years of sub-hourly water quality and weather data from six hydrologically diverse agricultural catchments in Ireland to understand the climatic factors that trigger an increase in phosphorus (P) losses [manifested as increase of 0.01 mg L− 1 in total phosphorus (TP) and increase of 0.005 mg L− 1 in total reactive phosphorus (TRP) over one day]. Plausible future P-loss due to extreme weather events was then modelled using climate change scenarios (from 2010 to 2100) for medium and high emission pathways, i.e. Representative concentration pathways (RCP) 4.5 and RCP8.5, respectively. EM identified three climatic conditions that trigger TP and TRP losses across all study catchments, namely: (i) cumulative effective rainfall > 5 mm over five days followed by effective rainfall > 5 mm in one day; (ii) effective rainfall > 5 mm in one day, and; (iii) effective rainfall over ten mm in one day. Together, these criteria captured up to 80% of the events across all catchments despite their different characteristics. From the projected climate change scenarios, the frequency of triggering events and their associated discharge rates, increases significantly towards the end of the century in all catchments, especially under RCP8.5. The sensitivity of catchment response to the changing weather patterns and the monthly trend of precipitation throughout the century strongly depended on catchment characteristics. The hydrologically flashy catchments in the dataset tend to be most sensitive to climate driven changes, returning the highest percentage increase of annual P-loss events in both RCPs.Considering far-future scenario, there would be 10–66% increase in the number of P-loss events under RCP4.5, and 28–67% under RCP8.5, taking into account the potential underestimation of projected precipitation probability. Assuming no changes in P-inputs in the future scenarios, the projections also indicated average discharge of up to 8.5 mm per a single triggering event that would directly contribute to increases in P-concentrations and mass loads leaving the catchments. Changes in climate are likely to compound already significant challenges in improving/ maintaining good water quality. It is therefore critical to incorporate the influences of climate change on nutrient losses in developing mitigation/adaptation strategies that are tailored to catchment-specific characteristics
Human-caused climate change increases potential for flooding in south-eastern counties of Ireland as rainfall intensifies. Report No. 0003
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● Analysis of hydrometric data shows that Storm Claudia caused significant but not exceptional flooding, with several rivers in Wexford and Wicklow recording their highest or second-highest peaks, although on short records; longer-term records show the event had a return period of roughly 20–30 years, indicating it was moderately rare rather than extreme. ● In comparison to a pre-industrial climate, the magnitude of the rainfall associated with the 2-day event in Dublin, Wexford and Wicklow has increased by nearly 12%. ● With further global warming we expect similar 2-day rainfall events to have a further 1%, 3%, and 8% increase in magnitude from today for climates 1.5°C, 2.0°C, and 3.0°C warmer than pre-industrial levels respectively. ● In comparison to a pre-industrial climate, the magnitude of the rainfall associated with the 30-day event in Dublin, Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Louth, Meath, Wexford, and Wicklow has increased by nearly 7%. ● With further global warming we expect similar 30-day rainfall events to have a further 0.5%, 2%, and 4.5% increase in magnitude from today for climates 1.5°C, 2.0°C, and 3.0°C warmer than pre-industrial levels respectively. ● Both the 2-day and 30-day rainfall events have already become twice as likely as would have been the case in a pre-industrial climate. On a warmer planet, with 3.0°C of global warming, we would expect similar 2-day rainfall events to happen once every 1-2 years and 30-day rainfall events to happen once every 2 years
Prayers as worldmaking in the publications of the Pomells de Joventut (1920–1923)
Get PDFThe popular yet doomed Catalan youth group, the Pomells de Joventut de Catalunya, which existed between 1920 and 1923, introduced a generation of young readers to a vibrant range of Catalan-language texts, many of which were of a religious and nationalist nature. Despite the rich material left behind by the Pomells, the intentions and potentials of their devotional prayers and acts of worship have not been thoroughly analysed. By mobilising the concept of “worldmaking” and applying this to the prayers and texts of the Pomells, the desires and concerns of these young Catalans are laid bare. Drawing on a variety of sources, this article reveals that the Pomells, despite their age, were actively engaged in a number of debates from their time via their prayers in Catalan and that their devotional practice was innovative and transgressive in its own way. However, these interventions by Catalan youth would awaken hopes and stir up fears within different wings of the Catholic Church in Catalonia
A minor glossary in a sixteenth-century Irish legal miscellany
Get PDFThis article presents a philological study of a hitherto unpublished minor late medieval Irish glossary. The text’s brevity and obscure location in a sixteenth-century legal miscellany likely contributed to it being almost entirely disregarded by scholarship. Although brief, the glossary contains some citations from unknown sources and some rarely attested vocabulary. It is one of several minor glossaries, typically written in the margins, on vellum off-cuts or on inserted vellum slips, that have not yet been treated in full. This article intends to draw attention to this body of material by providing an edition and translation of one such glossary
Exploiting tethered and untethered UAVs: a hybrid aerial communication system
Get PDFThanks to its flexibility and cost-effectiveness, an unmanned aerial vehicle-mounted base station (UAV-BS) is a promising technology for the upcoming 6G wireless networks. Furthermore, tethered UAVs (T-UAVs), which are powered via a tether by an energy source on the ground, can overcome the limited operation time of UAV-BS networks. Hence, T-UAVs sacrifice their mobility and flexibility to maintain long-lasting flight, unlike untethered UAVs (U-UAVs) that can not fly for more than 30 mins. To exploit the best of each type of UAV, the deployment of both T-UAVs and U-UAVs as aerial base stations is investigated. In this paper, we propose a hybrid system composed of tethered and untethered UAVs. We analyze the system by generating Monte Carlo simulations to find a compromise between the two different types of UAVs. Our results prove that for specific cases, the coexistence of tethered and untethered UAVs improves the performance of the system