An account of a recasting of a theoretical model of integrated lives from a model of collective capability - a theoretical model rooted in Amartya Sen's Capability Approach, in order to make sense of the way that adult early childhood…

This paper contributes to our knowledge of the determinants of job satisfaction by analysing the effects of employment status (self-employed or salaried employee) and work characteristics (autonomy, variety, task identity, task significance and feedback) on job satisfaction in a sample…

Reinforcement of learning in practice may help students learn bioscience but is contingent on adequate support from staff nurses. A 'snapshot' of the situation in practice was obtained (2006/7), with context from lecturers. In Stage 1, surgical care nurses were…

The purpose of the research was to assess the impact of the process of professional development of English foreign language teachers in Israel who participated in the Explicit Multisensory Phonics Intervention Programme. Previous research focused on changes in knowledge, practices,…

This book investigates the relationship between poetry and protest in the years immediately following the end of the Napoleonic wars—from 1815-1822. This book furthers knowledge of Romantic period culture by providing new and provocative information on canonical poets such as…

Originally published in Rhizomes, an international peer-reviewed online journal. Reprinted in Giffney, N. ed., 2008. Queering the Non/Human. London: Ashgate., Subjectivities configured as post-human may challenge investments in former configurations of what it means to be human, but there remains…

Having experienced the second highest population increase in the European Union, older people in the Republic of Ireland constitute 14% of the population (Central Statistics Office 2012). Older people, adults aged 65 and older, are at disproportionate risk of becoming…

This paper demonstrates how women who study childcare achieve congruence in their lives. Rather than simply juggling the needs of family, work and study in order to escape the domestic sphere, they choose to minimise dissonance, finding that parenting children,…

The 1980s saw an increase in learning support assistants (LSAs’) in colleges for further
education to support post-sixteen learners with learning difficulties and disabilities (LDD).
LSAs’ were appointed on an ad hoc basis with little or no experience, or relevant

This research is rooted in my professional practice at the newly established
international Centre for Spiritual Life Development (CSLD) of The Salvation Army. It
is designed to develop a foundation which can shape and enhance the policy and provision of…