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Government Policy Around Inclusive Education In The Uk And The Implications For Children, Families And Teachers, E Done

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

The relevance and value of a post-structuralist theoretical orientation when considering inclusion-related policy will be briefly explained, followed by the identification of recurrent themes in a post-structuralist analysis of UK policy developments. These themes include: a confused policy landscape that EY teachers must navigate, rights as a necessary but not sufficient condition of inclusion, and inclusion as an ethical (not economic) project that rejects deficit models of disability. Foucault (1982, p.778) insists on checking “the type of reality with which we are dealing” and, relatedly, the historical conditions of prevailing discursive fabrications to provide “historical awareness of our present circumstance”. …

Lifestyle Gambling, Indebtedness And Anxiety: A Deviant Leisure Perspective, Thomas Raymen, Oliver Smith

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Cocreate: Collaborative Curriculum Reimagining And Enhancement Aiming To Transform Education, Barry J. Ryan, Adrienne Fleming, Catherine M. Deegan, Claire Mcavinia, Colm O'Kane, David Williams, Edmund Nevin, Eric Bates, Fionnuala Darby, Jen Harvey, Lesley Murphy, Maebh Coleman, Miriam O'Donoghue, Nicola Duffy

Teaching Fellowship Reports

The establishment of TU Dublin in January 2019 provided a unique opportunity to create a bespoke curriculum framework for students, staff and stakeholders of TU Dublin, produced by the students, staff and stakeholders of TU Dublin. A curriculum framework is a set of guiding values that inform the design of teaching and learning activities within TU Dublin. A Teaching Fellowship Team, comprising eighteen teaching academics from across the three TU Dublin campuses and supported extensively by the Learning Teaching and Technology Centre (LTTC), was formed to collaboratively craft, in partnership with all stakeholders, a curriculum framework for TU Dublin. Working …

How Can Higher Education Institutions Utilise Community Engagement To Support The Learning Of Enterprising Behaviour In Disadvantaged Communities?, Emma O'Brien

Doctoral

It is broadly agreed that entrepreneurship plays a crucial role in economic and societal development. Supporting entrepreneurship has become a global phenomenon, and governments and policy makers have paid increasing attention to it. Yet, despite such policy developments, the OCED (2019) has identified that several communities (including women, youth, seniors, unemployed and immigrants) remain disadvantaged and under-represented in entrepreneurial activity. Inclusive entrepreneurship policies recognise the significant economic and social contribution these communities could make if greater encouragement and appropriate support was offered. This study investigates the supportive role that Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) can play in strengthening social inclusion through …

Employing A Visual Representation Technique To Understand Undergraduates’ Perceptions Of Civic Engagement Across Countries, Sharon Feeney, John Hogan

Articles

Purpose – This paper aims to present an interpretation of freehand drawings produced by a sample of final year degree level learners in response to the question: “What is civic engagement”? The aim in using this approach, with final year degree learners from different countries, but pursuing the same degree, was to compare and contrast their understanding of civic engagement.

Design/methodology/approach – Learners completed their drawings and then discussed their drawings in small groups. All of their drawings were initially examined quantitatively before a sample of six drawings were selected for in-depth qualitative examination.

Findings – Using learner-generated drawings enables …

Building Cyber Defense Training Capacity, Erik Moore

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

As society advances in terms of information technology, the dependency on cyber secure systems increases. Likewise, the need to enhance both the quality and relevance of education, training, and professional development for cybersecurity defenders increases proportionately. Without a continued supply of capable cyber defenders that can come to the challenge well-prepared and continuously advance their skills, the reliability and thus the value of information technology systems will be compromised to the point that new information-driven societal structures in commerce, banking, education, infrastructure, and others across the globe would be put be at risk.The body of research presented here provides a …

Unconditional Quantile Regression Analysis Of Uk Inbound Tourist Expenditures, Abhijit Sharma, Richard Woodward, Stefano Grillini

Articles

Using International Passenger Survey (2017) data, this paper employs unconditional quantile regression (UQR) to analyse the determinants of tourist expenditure amongst inbound tourists to the United Kingdom. UQR allows us to estimate heterogeneous effects at any quantile of the distribution of the dependent variable. It overcomes the econometric limitations of ordinary least squares and quantile regression based estimates typically used to investigate tourism expenditures. However, our results reveal that the effects of our explanatory variables change across the distribution of tourist expenditure. This has important implications for those tasked with devising policies to enhance the UK’s tourist flows and expenditures.

Empowering Qualitative Research Methods In Education With Artificial Intelligence, Luca Longo

Conference papers

Artificial Intelligence is one of the fastest growing disciplines, disrupting many sectors. Originally mainly for computer scientists and engineers, it has been expanding its horizons and empowering many other disciplines contributing to the development of many novel applications in many sectors. These include medicine and health care, business and finance, psychology and neuroscience, physics and biology to mention a few. However, one of the disciplines in which artificial intelligence has not been fully explored and exploited yet is education. In this discipline, many research methods are employed by scholars, lecturers and practitioners to investigate the impact of different instructional approaches …

Research And Innovation As A Catalyst For Food System Transformation, A.C.L. Den Boer, K.P.W. Kok, M. Gill, J. Breda, Jean Cahill, C. Callenius, P. Caron, Z. Damianova, M. Gurinovic, L. Lahteenmaki, T. Lang, R. Sonnino, G. Verburg, H. Westhoek, T. Cesuroglu, B.J. Regeer, J.E.W. Broerse

Research and Innovation - Other

Background Food systems are associated with severe and persistent problems worldwide. Governance approaches aiming to foster sustainable transformation of food systems face several challenges due to the complex nature of food systems.

Scope and approach In this commentary we argue that addressing these governance challenges requires the development and adoption of novel research and innovation (R&I) approaches that will provide evidence to inform food system transformation and will serve as catalysts for change. We first elaborate on the complexity of food systems (transformation) and stress the need to move beyond traditional linear R&I approaches to be able to respond to …

Research And Innovation Supporting The Farm To Fork Strategy Of The European Commission, R. Sonnino, C. Callenius, L. Lahteenmaki, J. Breda, Jean Cahill, P. Caron, Z. Damianova, M.A. Gurinovic, T. Lang, A. Laperriere, C. Mango, J. Ryder, G. Verbrugh, T. Achterbpscj, A.C.L. Den Boer, K.P.W. Kok, B.J. Regeer, J.E. Broerse, J.E.W. Cesuroglu, T. Gill

Research and Innovation - Other

No abstract provided.

Community College Debt Acquisition At Baccalaureate Degree, Holliday Ridge

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Federal student loan debt is an issue that affects a large swath of American society. This study analyzes the acquisition of federal student loans for transfer students who begin at a community college and transferred to obtain a baccalaureate degree. Not much is known about the dynamics of this frequently occurring combination of educational path and loan-taking experience. Using data from a medium-sized, public, urban institution in the southern portion of the United States, this study used multiple regression to examine the differences in the federal student loan debt at graduation between transfer and non-transfer students. While the descriptive data …

The Dynamics Of Abortion Treatment As An Effort Of Harmonization Between The Modern And The Traditional Medical System, Hanifatus Salwa

Antropologi Indonesia

This article explored the phenomenon of abortion within which a health issue is embedded, both in modern medicine and traditional medicine which is very close to the culture of the local community. It described efforts of abortion treatment that act as a bridge between the roles of modern medicine and traditional medicine in the Yogyakarta region. Apart from the stigma of local community regarding abortion by women with unwanted pregnancy, this article aimed to eliminate inappropriate conceptions and practices that stem from misinterpretations of developments in science, technology, and media. Abortion at least represents a narrative and context in the …

The Mortality After Release From Incarceration Consortium (Maric): Protocol For A Multi-National, Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis, Rohan Borschmann, Holly Tibble, Matthew J. Spittal, David Preen, Jane Pirkis, Sarah Larney, David L. Rosen, Jesse T. Young, Alexander D. Love, Frederick L. Altice, Ingrid A. Binswanger, Anne Bukten, Tony Butler, Zheng Chang, Chuan-Yu Chen, Thomas Clausen, Peer Brehm Christensen, Gabriel J. Culbert, Louisa Degenhardt, Anja J. E. Dirkzwager, Kate Dolan, Seena Fazel, Colin Fischbacher, Margaret Giles, Lesley Graham, David Harding, Yen-Fang Huang, Florence Huber, Azar Karaminia

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Introduction More than 30 million adults are released from incarceration globally each year. Many experience complex physical and mental health problems, and are at markedly increased risk of preventable mortality. Despite this, evidence regarding the global epidemiology of mortality following release from incarceration is insufficient to inform the development of targeted, evidence-based responses. Many previous studies have suffered from inadequate power and poor precision, and even large studies have limited capacity to disaggregate data by specific causes of death, sub-populations or time since release to answer questions of clinical and public health relevance. Objectives To comprehensively document the incidence, timing, …

Predictors Of Hand Hygiene Behaviours Among Primary And Secondary School Children In A Rural District Setting In Zimbabwe: A Cross-Sectional Epidemiologic Study, France Ncube, Artwell Kanda, Maude Chahwanda, Margaret Macherera, Bigboy Ngwenya

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

© 2020, IWA Publishing. All rights reserved. Hand hygiene is one of the most effective and efficient ways of controlling faecal–oral diseases. However, little is known about the predictors of hand hygiene behaviours among school children. A predesigned checklist guide was used to observe hygiene behaviours of 460 pupils from four rural schools in Shamva South district, Zimbabwe. A pretested questionnaire was administered to obtain demographic data of the observed school children. Membership of a Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) club, age, gender and the level of education were associated with hand hygiene practices (p < 0.05). The findings indicated that investing in hand hygiene behaviour change processes among school children using the promotion, formation, resuscitation and empowerment of WASH clubs in schools is important in disease prevention among communities in developing countries.

Global Crime: An Encyclopedia Of Cyber Theft, Weapons Sales, And Other Illegal Activities By Philip L. Reichel, Abc-Clio, 2019 (Book Review), Robert Tench

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Covid-19 And It Education: Introduction To The Special Series, Christopher Cheong, Jo Coldwell-Neilson, Tian Luo, Kathryn Maccallum

STEMPS Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Where Is The Policy? A Bibliometric Analysis Of The State Of Policy Research On Medical Tourism., Altaf Virani, Adam Wellstead, Michael Howlett

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

Background: It is imperative that researchers studying medical tourism connect their work with policy, so that its real-world challenges can be better understood, and more effectively addressed. This article gauges the scope and evolution of

Methods: A Boolean search of the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection was performed to identify policy-related publications on medical tourism. We analyzed the results using bibliometrics and a data visualization software called

Results: Our findings suggest that only a small proportion of medical tourism research explicitly addresses policy issues or applies policy paradigms in their study approach. Field-specialized journals serving practitioners publish less research …

From Open Access To Open Science: The Path From Scientific Reality To Open Scientific Communication, Christian Heise, Joshua M. Pearce

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

Although opening up of research is considered an appropriate and trend-setting model for future scientific communication, it can still be difficult to put open science into practice. How open and transparent can a scientific work be? This article investigates the potential to make all information and the whole work process of a qualification project such as a doctoral thesis comprehensively and freely accessible on the internet with an open free license both in the final form and completely traceable in development. The answer to the initial question, the self-experiment and the associated demand for openness, posed several challenges for a …

Thermal Analysis And Post Construction Verification, Cormac Flood, Lloyd Scott

Articles

Purpose – The residential sector in Ireland accounted for 25 per cent of energy related CO2 emissions in 2016 through burning fossil fuels, a major contributor to climate change. In support of Ireland’s CO2 reduction targets, the existing housing stock could contribute greatly to the reduction of space-heating energy demand through retrofit. Approximately 50 per cent of Ireland’s 2m dwellings pre-date building regulations and are predominantly of cavity and solid wall construction, the performance of which has not been extensively investigated at present. Although commitment to thermal upgrade/retrofit of existing buildings may increase under future government policies, the poor characterisation …

“The Very Essence Of French Cinema”(?): Jacques Feyder’S Return To France, 1944–1948, Barry Nevin

Articles

No abstract provided.

Framing “L’Âme Des Personnages”: Performance And Affect In Jacques Feyder’S Pension Mimosas (1935), Barry Nevin

Articles

Although Jacques Feyder's authorial control over his productions and his direction of actors constituted two of the most widely appreciated aspects of his approach to filmmaking during his own lifetime, the impact of each on his mise en scene has received little critical attention. This article aims to remedy this oversight by linking both aspects in three stages: first, drawing on contemporary periodicals, recollections of Feyder's performers and his own writings, it illustrates Feyder's preoccupation with the creation of in-depth psychological portraits through his actors; second, focusing on Pension Mimosas (1935), it demonstrates that Feyder's technical style, although aligned closely …

(Re)Visions Of The Outre-Mer: Looking At The Male Gaze In Jacques Feyder’S Le Grand Jeu (1934), Barry Nevin

Articles

Cinéma colonial is regarded by certain scholars as a highly conventionalised and commercialised film practice that grants spectators a sense of control over the potentially threatening colonial Other, and Belgian director Jacques Feyder has been subject to particularly harsh criticism in this regard. This article argues that Feyder’s Le Grand Jeu (1934), which depicts a young legionnaire’s relationship with a cabaret singer who bears an uncanny resemblance to a previous lover who jilted him in Paris, challenges dominant tendencies in portrayals of gender and colonialism in French cinema of the 1930s. Drawing on the relationship between Laura Mulvey’s theorisation of …

Female Athletes' Experiences Of Body Surveillance, Body Shame, Depression Symptoms, And Self-Compassion, Jennifer Yeoward

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Female athletes are often recipients of conflicting messages about their bodies and these messages impact their mental health. Utilizing the framework of objectification theory, this online cross-sectional study focused on the reported experiences of body surveillance, body shame, and depression symptoms of female athletes (Mage = 34.21, SDage = 9.45). The study tested a moderated-mediation relationship among body surveillance, body shame, depression symptoms, and self-compassion to determine if body shame mediated the relationship between body surveillance and depression symptoms, and if self-compassion moderated the indirect relationship, by weakening the relationship between body surveillance and body shame. Two hundred and fifty-one …

Ways Of Being, Seen And Unseen: Concepts, Practices, And The Emergence Of Trans Ways Of Life, James Edward Zubko, Jr.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The dissertation presents a philosophical analysis of social possibilities in connection with gender. Specifically, the dissertation concerns how people take up social possibilities for different ways of living gender and how these possibilities emerge. The goal of the dissertation is to construct a philosophical framework that can be used to analyze social possibility in connection with trans (transsexual, transgender and gender non-conforming) existence. The dissertation argues that it is salutary to analyze the how concepts, practices and embodiment affect access to gendered social possibilities. The dissertation draws first on Heidegger in order to develop an ontological account of possibility as …

Transnational Family Language Policy And Religious Identity: An Autoethnographic Study, Muhammad Ahmad Alasmari

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

A growing trend in the field of family language policy (FLP) is to examine the interplay between language ideologies and practices and to explore the complex links between linguistic and non-linguistic forces in shaping language ideologies and meaning-making processes in multilingual families (Curdt-Christiansen, 2016; King & Lanza, 2017). The current study extends this discussion on the interplay between family external and internal factors, the processes parents experience, and their connection to dynamicity in the FLP to show how family members draw on their linguistic resources and experiences with multilingualism to define themselves within the family and wider community (King & …

Impact Of The Geier Consent Decree: Medical School Admissions For African American Students, Dustin Fulton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The United States has a storied history in terms of race, equality, and acceptance of minority populations. Racial constructs have caused division in America since its inception and there has been a long journey in terms of equal opportunity in education for minority populations. From the establishment of higher education in America until current time, race has had a great impact on access for African Americans. Even beyond undergraduate education, there are potential obstacles for African American student success. Obstacles related to the matriculation and success of African American students extends to graduate education such as medical school. As a …

Predicting The Adoption Of Connected Autonomous Vehicles By Transportation Organizations Using Peer Effects, Jesse Simpson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This dissertation presents and tests a methodology for predicting the adoption rate of Connected Autonomous Trucks (CATs) in transportation organizations using peer effects. There are a number of different factors that must be considered when developing innovation adoption models for organizations. This dissertation briefly describes each of the relevant variables and combines them into a discrete choice model for predicting the adoption rate of CATs by transportation organizations. The model incorporates new peer effect modeling techniques to simulate competition and the informal communication network. A stated-preference survey is conducted, and information from 400 freight transportation organizations is gathered. The survey …

An Examination Of Probation Officer Attitudes Towards Juvenile And Adult Offenders With Mental Illness, Michael Stephen Skirius

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This cross-sectional survey examines probation officers attitudes towards offenders with mental illness (OMI) using demographic data and the Community Attitudes Toward the Mentally Ill (CAMI) scale, following community demonstrations for systemic criminal justice reforms in 2020. Results indicate officers exhibit elevated attitudes of Benevolence and Community Mental Health Ideology towards OMI, which indicates fewer stigmatizing beliefs towards OMI than previous research. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.

Just Culture In Healthcare Error Management: Nurse-In-Training View Of Just Culture And Outcomes Of Event Involvement, Rebecca Roberts Quillivan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This experimental study will assess the behavioral and psychosocial effects of just culture error management strategies for medical errors in a healthcare setting, and the outcomes of such strategies on work-related perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors. A total of 247 nurses-in-training were randomly assigned to one of 6 experimental conditions. In each condition, participants read a vignette that described an at-risk medical error and the error management strategy employed by a hypothetical organization. The medical error was written to implicate both the individual involved, and the larger organizational system. Vignettes differed with regard to error management strategy employed by the organization …

Exploring The Relationship Between Immigrant Enclave Theory And Transnational Diaspora Entrepreneurial Opportunity Formation, Osa Godwin Osaghae Dr, Thomas M. Cooney

Articles

Immigrant Enclave Theory (IET) investigates the concentration and localisation of immigrants in a specific geographic area. Some IET studies have highlighted the resilience of these communities and described such enclaves as sources of mutual support, collective political power and beneficial social relationships. Other studies have examined the influence of IET on immigrant entrepreneurial activity within these geographic areas, although some of these studies have highlighted IET as a contributor to low profit margin businesses due to over-representation of immigrant enterprises within the same sector and geographic locality. This article considers the potential for Transnational Diaspora Entrepreneurship (TDE) as an alternative …