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Diamonds Down Your Sofa, Aisling Coyne, Yvonne Desmond, John Donovan
Diamonds Down Your Sofa, Aisling Coyne, Yvonne Desmond, John Donovan
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Every RPO has or should have an institutional repository. As a showcase for what you do especially outputs that are not suitable for publication, they are hard to beat but how many of us extract the full value from them? How many of us treat them as electronic warehouses and never look at them again? In short, how many of us have no idea of how much really know? Repositories store so much more than just full-text articles, they are used to catalogue everything from artworks to zoom logs and everything in between and that breadth represents hidden but real …
Covid-19 Welcome To University: Second Year Students Reflect On The Upcoming Experience Of Incoming First Years, Alan Hilliard
Covid-19 Welcome To University: Second Year Students Reflect On The Upcoming Experience Of Incoming First Years, Alan Hilliard
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A short on-line survey was undertaken by Fr Alan Hilliard, Coordinator of the Pastoral Care and Chaplaincy Service at TU Dublin. Peer Mentors (second year students who volunteer to support first year students) were asked to reflect on their experiences of college life during lockdown. They were also asked their opinion on the challenges facing incoming first years. The findings have very specific insights that can assist us as we prepare to welcome our new first years and indeed all students back to college. The students surveyed are based in the College of Engineering and Built Environment. The paper is …