Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Saints and Celibates : Protestant Identity in the Irish Novels of William Trevor
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 1999)This thesis focuses purely on Protestant identity in three Irish novels by William Trevor, namely: Fools of Fortune, The Silence in the Garden and Reading Turgenev. -
Investigating primary school teachers' pedagogy belief change about the use of ICT through a bespoke model of teacher CPD - The 4D Model
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2024)This study focuses on teachers' pedagogy beliefs and their relationship with ICT as a critical factor in determining teachers' classroom practice. Recent insights into the relationship can enhance CPD design in this area. ... -
TOWARD GAMIFICATION IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PRACTICE
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2024)This thesis seeks to expand the explanation and examine the application of gamification strategies in software engineering practice, specifically in the education setting. I hypothesize that gamification strategies, deployed ... -
The role of canonical and non-canonical inflammasomes in a model of oxidative stress-induced retinal degeneration
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2024)Retinal degenerative diseases like age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are a leading cause of visual impairment. Oxidative stress is known to be important in the pathogenesis of AMD, and oxidative-stress induced retinal ... -
The Horizontal Effect of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights in EU Labour Law
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2024)In 2018, in Bauer and Broßonn, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that a worker can enforce the right to paid annual leave against his or her employer based on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of ... -
Mechanical Characterisation of Printed Nanosheet Network Thin Films
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2024)The response of materials to applied stress and the resulting deformation is a fundamental cornerstone of condensed matter physics and materials research. From exciting new prospects such as the conductive nanosheet ... -
Silhouettes in a City: Women, Work and Welfare in Dublin, c. 1890- 1930s
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis investigates the position of women workers in Dublin in the period c. 1890-1930s. It focuses on women as employees in paid employment, rather than as business owners, self-employed innovators, house workers, ... -
The lived experience of teachers working inclusively in the modern classroom, a systemic approach
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2024)Inclusive education is well documented in the literature and in today’s educational settings, all schools are required to drafted inclusive policies. However, historically speaking, inclusive education referred only to ... -
The Medicalisation of Death in a Dublin City Workhouse, 1872-1920
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis examines the role the South Dublin Union (SDU) workhouse played in Dublin's medical landscape for the sick and dying poor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries during periods of normal operation. ... -
Does Collaborative Governance Work? A longitudinal, case-based study of how local governments adapt to collaborative governance, and with what effect.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2024)This study asks how do local governments implement and adapt to the collaborative governance arrangements required for nature-based solutions (NBS) and does collaborative governance work? A longitudinal, comparative case ... -
Statistical Methods to Extrapolate Time-To-Event Data
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Statistics, 2024)This thesis investigates methods used to predict long-term survival of observations (typically survival times) beyond the time at which data follow-up is available. Current practice is to use parametric survival models; ... -
Modelling electromechanical properties of 2D materials and heterostructures
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2024)Strain, both naturally occurring and deliberately engineered, can have a considerable effect on the structural, electronic, and transport properties of 2D and layered materials. Uniaxial or biaxial heterostrain (i.e. ... -
A Cross-Disease Study Investigating the Phenotypic and Functional Heterogeneity in Neutrophil Subsets
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2024)Neutrophils play a critical role in the innate immune response. They are the most abundant leukocytes in humans and are the first line of defence against invading microorganisms; growing evidence in the last decade has ... -
Exploring Neurocognitive Factors Underlying Autism and Hyperphagia in Prader-Willi Syndrome
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Psychiatry, 2024)Background: Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a rare complex multisystem genetic disorder recognised as the most common genetic cause of life-threatening obesity in humans (Butler, 1996). The PWS genotype gives rise to a ... -
The Utilization of Extended Reality to Facilitate Quality Education and Reduce Inequalities
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2024)Educational inequalities pose a significant global challenge, as they hinder sustainable development and perpetuate disparities in opportunities and outcomes for different populations. To address this dilemma and offer ... -
The Jacobi-Legendre framework for Machine Learning in Materials Investigation and Discovery
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2024)Machine-learning models have rapidly become fundamental tools in the study of materials properties. In the past few years there has been a surge of interest in the construction of new models and descriptors to accelerate ... -
Characteristics and Outcomes of Older Adults Following Distal Forearm Fracture
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2024)Introduction Osteoporosis and fragility fractures pose a serious public health challenge in our ageing society. Systems are being developed in Ireland and internationally to provide, coordinated and comprehensive assessments ... -
From Direct Provision to Housing: A Qualitative Study of the Housing Journeys of Refugees in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2024)This thesis examines the housing journeys of refugees in Ireland, with a particular focus on the transition from Direct Provision to housing. In Ireland and elsewhere, a significant body of literature has examined refugees? ... -
Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941): her art and politics, a critical examination
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)This thesis critically assesses Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941) as an artist, a political activist and a social and cultural campaigner. In each of these roles she was an instigator rather than follower. The account ... -
Arrangements of lines of hard and soft spheres in confinement
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2024)Chains of particles, ranging from one-dimensional to three-dimensional structures, offer an avenue of research spanning condensed matter physics to microengineering, providing insights into material behaviour across diverse ...
