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The Relationship Between Personality and Employment: Evidence From the Irish Marriage Bar
Get PDFThis article examines empirically the relationship between personality and employment using individual‐level survey data collected in The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). The analysis is based on a subsample of Irish women who left their jobs because of the so‐called marriage bar, which was a legal requirement at the time that women must leave employment when they marry. Two groups of women are compared: Those who did, and those who did not, return to work after having to leave because of the marriage bar. The main finding is that personality does impact employment, with less agreeable and more extroverted women being more likely to return to work after a spell of non‐employment. More generally, the analysis highlights the role of non‐cognitive abilities in labor market success
The Maynooth Codex of Tabletop Adventures
Get PDFWriting for Role-Playing Games: Narratives, Adventures, and Worldbuilding was a post-graduate class offered
in the summer of 2024 by Maynooth University. Students immersed themselves in theory, design, and, most
importantly, writing. The diversity of games that students were interested in speaks to the strength of the genre.
Indeed, the existence of the class itself is a recognition of the importance and, dare we say, legitimacy of
tabletop RPGs as a creative industry. As the works presented here demonstrate, tabletop RPGs offer a unique
site to explore fundamental questions about society and human experience
Temporary Organising and the Implementation of Large-Scale Projects: A Multiple Case Study.
Get PDFThis thesis examines the relationship between temporary organising and institutional logics in large-scale project implementation, focusing on two cases: The Irish Rural Electrification Scheme, and Ireland’s National Electronic Health Record Programme. It analyses implementation processes in each case to understand how temporary organising interacts with prevailing institutional logics. Using a multiple case study design and a qualitative methodology, the research explores the complexities and dynamics of temporary organising. Based on insights from the two cases, it develops a novel categorisation of the temporary organising/institutional logic relationship as: Embedded, Constellated, or Decoupled, and identifies four key categories of implementation processes as: Compliance, Competence Building, Collaboration, and Cost (the 4Cs). The findings offer both theoretical contributions, advancing understanding of how temporary organising shapes and is shaped by institutional logics, and practical guidance for managing complex, time-bound projects across instances of temporary organising
Experiences and Stories of Mastering a Craft: The Embodied Journey of Learning
Get PDFThe ‘coming-to-know’ experience is identified as lifelong learning that is influenced
not only by the craft, but also by an implicit desire to create. This desire to create is
synonymous with getting the feel of various tools and materials and how they can be
most effectively used, supported by various and diverse communities. This results in a
state of implicit knowing that, although difficult to define, is nonetheless real. I
explored this ‘coming-to-know’ experience using a blended approach of narrative
research and micro-phenomenological interviewing to give an account of key
moments in the ‘coming-to-know’ experience of the craftsperson.
I interpreted rich data from craftspeople already recorded, as well as observations and
in-depth interviews with craftspeople, to identify key learning moments in their
‘coming-to-know’ and mastery of their craft. In doing so, this thesis shows that their
understanding of learning and curiosity are constants, shaped by many factors that
contribute to the craftsperson’s desire to create and leave a legacy that is part of a
living lineage.
My findings show that a blended methodology is helpful in offering a rich tapestry of
data, where micro-phenomenological interviewing is interwoven with narrative data
collection to provide a rich account of key moments in the craftsperson’s ‘coming-toknow’
experience. The methodology enabled me to engage fully and critically with
the key authors in both the craft literature and the embodied knowing literature, giving
a comprehensive description of factors that influenced and supported the craftsperson,
some of which have already been identified in the literature, and others which were
revealed through micro-phenomenological description
Primary Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction in Level 1 Athletes: Factors Associated With Return to Play, Reinjury, and Knee Function at 5 Years of Follow-up
Get PDFBackground:
Favorable outcomes after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction (ACLR) are often gauged by successful return to play (RTP), a low incidence of subsequent ACL injury, and positive patient-reported outcomes. Level 1 sports place the highest demands on the knee by requiring frequent pivoting, changes in direction, and jumping.
Purpose:
To analyze the outcomes of primary ACLR in level 1 athletes and identify pre- and intraoperative factors associated with RTP, ipsilateral ACL reinjury, contralateral ACL injury, and International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC) score at 5 years postoperatively.
Study Design:
Cohort study; Level of evidence, 2.
Methods:
A consecutive cohort of 1432 patients who underwent primary ACLR by 2 orthopaedic surgeons were prospectively evaluated. The RTP rate, incidence of ipsilateral/contralateral ACL injury, and IKDC score were analyzed at 5 years. Comparative analysis of clinical variables was performed between those who achieved favorable outcomes and those who did not. Outcomes at 5 and 2 years were also compared.
Results:
The mean age was 24.3 ± 7.3 years (males: 75%, females: 25%). Gaelic football was the predominant sport (40%), followed by soccer (19%). The RTP rate was 87.4%, with 59.8% of athletes still playing at an equivalent or higher level at 5 years. The incidence of ipsilateral reinjury for athletes who resumed level 1 sport was 4.3% for bone–patellar tendon–bone (BPTB) autografts with screw fixation and 19.7% for hamstring tendon (HT) autografts with EndoButton and screw fixation. The incidence of contralateral ACL injury was 13.7%. The mean IKDC score at 5 years (86.6 ± 10.9) was comparable to that at 2 years (86.8 ± 10.1). Patients were more likely to RTP with each year of decreasing age (OR, 1.06; P < .001), with a higher preoperative Marx score (OR, 1.08; P < .001) or a higher 5-year IKDC score (OR, 1.06; P < .001). The risk of ipsilateral ACL reinjury increased each year of decreasing age (OR, 1.11; P < .001) or when an HT autograft was used (OR, 5.56; P < .001). Younger age was also associated with contralateral ACL injury (OR, 1.1; P < .001). Female sex, older age, concomitant meniscal/chondral injuries, and lower preoperative Anterior Cruciate Ligament Return to Sport after Injury scores were associated with lower IKDC scores at 5 years.
Conclusion:
Most patients could return to level 1 sports, although their performance level was impacted. Those who returned to sport maintained their performance level over the 5 years. The ipsilateral reinjury rate for BPTB autografts with screws was significantly lower than that for HT autografts with EndoButton and screw fixation. Most ACL reinjuries occurred between 2 and 5 years of follow-up. Younger patients had an increased risk of a subsequent ACL injury to either knee, regardless of graft type. IKDC scores were lower in female patients, older patients, and those with concomitant meniscal/cartilage injuries.
Registration:
NCT02771548 (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier)
Editorial: Catalysis and sensing for our environment
Get PDFThis Research Topic has been assembled in collaboration with Frontiers in Chemistry to
honour the memory of our friend and colleague, Professor John S. Fossey (University of
Birmingham). It coincides with the 10th Catalysis and Sensing for our Environment (CASE)
symposium, held in Japan from 5 to 12 April 2024—an event that John had long envisioned,
in a country that held deep personal and professional significance for him
Why engaged critical urban research must place scholar policy activism at its core
Get PDFI welcome and endorse Loretta Lees’ call for a reconstituted critical urban studies tradition predicated
upon polyvocal, intersectoral and co-produced research, dialogues and dialoguing and concurrent and
compounding critical intelligences. In this short commentary, I make the case for placing scholar policy
activism at the heart of such a tradition. I explore how and why critical urban research has come to
view executive power as its arch nemesis. I argue that continued estrangement and jousting between
the architects of radical praxis and those of policy practice is indefensible. I scope the contours of a
new generation of policy engaged critical scholarship. We can no longer in good conscience fire missiles
from inside the ivory tower and outside of the governing tent in the hope that better cities will result. If we
are to be serious about ‘shaking up the city’, we will need to work with and on sources of power – to
immerse ourselves in the epistemic communities which enjoy dominion over policy registers – and recalibrate
the urban ‘partition of the sensible’
PatentsInHumans Project examining the potential impact of patents on access to health
Get PDFThe April edition of the Law Society Gazette in Ireland features as its cover story an article written by Professor Aisling McMahon (Principal Investigator, PatentsInHumans project) which examines the potential impacts that patents can have on access and delivery of health-related technologies, such as medicines, diagnostics, elements of vaccines etc. The article also outlines how such issues (amongst others) will be examined as part of the European Research Council funded PatentsInHumans project
The Populist Hype (Chapter 44)
Get PDFGoing beyond an exclusive focus on populist politics, attention to the signifier ‘populism’ helps elucidate the character and effects of discourses about populism. The aim of this chapter is three-fold. First, we foreground the pivotal role played by politics, media, academia and their dynamic inter-relations in elucidating the character and effects of discourses about populism. Second, we argue that while this has so far been analysed productively in ideological terms, there are good reasons for supplementing these accounts by appealing to factors which go ‘beyond ideology’. Third, we approach the ubiquity of discourses about populism through the concept of ‘populist hype’, showing how its character and ideological effects are a product of processes that go beyond ‘mere’ ideological motivations
Chief executive officer’s dark triad personality and firm's degree of internationalization: The mediating role of ambidexterity
Get PDFThis study empirically examines the relationships among CEOs’ dark triad personality (narcissism, psychopathy,
and Machiavellianism), ambidexterity, and firms’ internationalization behavior. Dark triad personality traits
have attracted growing attention in the fields of psychology and organizational behavior due to their influence
on individual decision-making, particularly by individuals in executive leadership roles. We extend research on
dark triad personality to international business (IB) and examine the link between IB decision-makers’ personality traits and firms’ IB outcomes. Our research highlights the complex dynamics shaping firm internationalization, with both the CEO’s dark triad personality and ambidexterity playing significant roles in driving firm
internationalization outcomes. An analysis of 405 firms from the United Kingdom and the United States reveals
that ambidexterity partially mediates the relationship between dark triad personality and the degree of internationalization and that firms pursuing internationalization may benefit from CEOs with a dark triad personality