In the context of population ageing and increasing demands on welfare state spending, issues relating to the care of older people are at the forefront of social policy debates at national, European and international levels. ...

The principles and discourses of the social model challenge the individualised interpretation of disability, redefining it as social oppression. Within the last three decades this model has successfully translated the ...

In Ireland, age-related illnesses such as dementia are becoming a greater policy concern in line with population ageing. Despite this, dementia-specific policies and practices are still largely under-developed and the ...

This thesis analyses how social and political conflicts among different social actors shape the implementation of slum-upgrading programmes. The research focuses on the first two years (2008-2010) of the implementation of ...

This thesis is concerned with working time in the software sector in Ireland. It examines its nature and the way in which it is organised. Twenty-two people were interviewed over the course of a year about various aspects ...

This dissertation offers an exploration of the processes involved in the construction of discourses of Irishness and otherness as it relates to migration and anti racism in Ireland between 1990 and 2005. In doing so, I ...

In recent years, bullying has come to be established as a significant issue for contemporary workplaces, in Ireland as elsewhere. Our research knowledge is largely psychologically-based, with many studies focusing on the ...

This thesis looks at the current transformations in the Irish and European fisheries as a way of critically examining the politics of environmental sustainability. It begins by analysing how the crisis of the fisheries is ...