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“The Forgotten Helpers? Life After the Emergency Services” (2015)

Bracken-Scally, Mairead

“The Forgotten Helpers? Life After the Emergency Services” (2015)

Bracken-Scally, Mairead

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Background: The impact of emergency service work on the health and well-being of personnel has been well documented in the literature. Despite this, however, very little is known about the experiences of emergency service retirees and their Quality of Life (QoL). Aims: The principal aim of this study was to assess the overall QoL and wellbeing of retired emergency services (ambulance and fire) personnel. The specific objectives of the study were to: (1) ascertain the possible long-term effects, on overall QoL, of working in the emergency services; (2) explore the experiences and views of retirees; and (3) to gather information on retirement policies and procedures for emergency service personnel. Method: The study was conducted within a sequential mixed methods framework, and incorporated three key stages. Stage One involved interviews with key informants from emergency services (N=14) to investigate their views around current retirement policies and procedures. Stage Two employed a...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/6428/

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Choices and Consequences: Impact of Mobility on Research-Career Capital and Promotion in Business Schools (2019)

Ryazanova, Olga; McNamara, Peter

Choices and Consequences: Impact of Mobility on Research-Career Capital and Promotion in Business Schools (2019)

Ryazanova, Olga; McNamara, Peter

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We focus on the role that domestic and international mobility play in achieving a business academic’s career outcomes. We seek to advance existing research by taking a morenuanced approach to the study of mobility. Using a sample of 376 tenured faculty members from 20 highly research-visible European business schools in 10 countries, we explore different patterns of mobility and highlight their link to research-career capital and the speed of academic promotion. Our findings show that mobility has a positive impact on research-career capital, but multiple moves delay academic promotion. In making decisions about international mobility, it is important to know that moving internationally for one’s first post-PhD job undermines research productivity. However, moving internationally between year 2 and year 7 post-PhD is better than moving later on. The ability to move between countries is deeply rooted in gender, with female faculty less likely to access international mobility. Female ...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/11316/

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Management, Truth and Life (2009)

Maguire, Mark

Management, Truth and Life (2009)

Maguire, Mark

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The 2006 United Nations report, the State of the World's Refugees, outlines many of the challenges of studying migration in the contemporary moment. The first of these being the recognition that migration today is increasingly 'mixed' or blended. In contrast, the postWorld War II state-based migration regimes seem to offer governmental categories that, to paraphrase Friedrich Nietzsche, grasp at the smoke of an evaporating reality. These days, student migration is also widdy recognized (even by governments) to be blended with labour migration. With increasing restrictions on labour migration, applications for asylum offer one of the few routes to a better life; and, with increasingly restrictive asylum systems, unknown numbers are falling into irregular routes. All of this must be situated against a background in which the numbers of migrants in the world continues to grow. Of course, many migrants are not asylum seekers, refugees or 'illegal' immigrants, bu...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/2848/

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Preferences, Choice, Goal Attainment, Satisfaction: That’s Life? (2011)

Pecchenino, Rowena A.

Preferences, Choice, Goal Attainment, Satisfaction: That’s Life? (2011)

Pecchenino, Rowena A.

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We make choices to achieve an objective. The objective is defined by an individual’s preferences. Subject to constraints, the objective is approached or achieved. Is this a good characterization of life? To answer this question we weaken one of the most basic assumptions of economics: individuals know their preferences. Instead we assume that an individual’s preferences are shaped and reshaped by his environment, experiences, expectations, and by exogenous events. In this model of individual self-discovery, preferences emerge, evolve, and change. These redefinitions change the future course of the individual’s life and reinterpret his past. They characterize a life lived.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/1883/

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Preferences, choice, goal attainment, satisfaction: That’s life? (2011)

Pecchenino, Rowena A.

Preferences, choice, goal attainment, satisfaction: That’s life? (2011)

Pecchenino, Rowena A.

Abstract:

We make choices to achieve an objective. The objective is defined by an individual’s preferences. Subject to constraints, the objective is approached or achieved. Is this a good characterization of life? To answer this question we weaken one of the most basic assumptions of economics: individuals know their prefer- ences. Instead we assume that an individual’s preferences are shaped and reshaped by his environment, experiences, expectations, and by exogenous events. In this model of individual self-discovery, prefer- ences emerge, evolve, and change. These redefinitions change the future course of the individual’s life and reinterpret his past. They characterize a life lived.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/8506/

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Teaching and Learning as a Way of Life (2003)

Hogan, Padraig

Teaching and Learning as a Way of Life (2003)

Hogan, Padraig

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This essay seeks to show that teaching and learning are to be properly understood, not as an undertaking carried out on the will of a higher power or party, but as a way of life with an integrity of its own, arising from its own integral purposes. The essay thus seeks to provide an understanding of educational practice and of educational thought that contrasts in key respects with Alasdair MacIntyre’s understanding, though also with a some notable parallels. A largely forgotten ‘Socrates of Athens’ is identified as furnishing the original inspiration for the understanding of education explored in the essay. Some influential modern (and postmodern) negations of this understanding are then reviewed. Arising from its investigation of teaching and learning as a singular kind of relationship, the essay concludes with a brief sketch of some virtues that might constitute the way of life in question, in its more active and its more reflective moments.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/8574/

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The Butler affair and the geopolitics of identity (2013)

Kearns, Gerard

The Butler affair and the geopolitics of identity (2013)

Kearns, Gerard

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In the wake of the Global War on Terror, Judith Butler has written of the 'precarity' of life, of the inevitable vulnerability of one's life in the face of the actions of strangers. Refusing to accept this, the United States has developed a form of nationalism that claims invulnerability for its citizens while treating as expendable the lives of distant others who even unwittingly associate with those who threaten the US homeland. Butler has extended this set of criticisms to Israel's policy towards Palestinian people and in doing so has been criticised as anti-Semitic. She has engaged with these questions about Jewish identity, nationalism, and toleration through an engagement with writers of the Jewish diaspora, developing what we may describe as a geopolitical perspective on identity. The value of such a perspective was given ironic point by the public controversy over the award to Butler of the Adorno Prize in 2012. This paper argues also that in responding t...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/7638/

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The nation, the state, and the neighbors: personation in Irish-language discourse (2004)

Coleman, Stephen

The nation, the state, and the neighbors: personation in Irish-language discourse (2004)

Coleman, Stephen

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Irish-language discourse features a pervasive system of practices involving the production and dissemination of directly reported speech. These homologous practices, here termed personation, include brief imitations of others in conversational speech, the use of direct voice in several poetic genres, the Irish-language song tradition, and a few influential novels. Personation is motivated by a semiotic ideology (personalism) which naturalizes speech and other expressive behavior as an immediate aspect of a person's social being. It is argued that personation, as a semiotic practice, motivates Irish-speakers' resistance to various attempts, centered in discourses of the nation and the state, to refigure the Irish language as the "voice" of a generalized and purified national past or as a semiotically transparent medium for the state. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/10428/

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What’s it like to come to college: Exploring the experience of female students in University. (2016)

Casey, Fiona

What’s it like to come to college: Exploring the experience of female students in University. (2016)

Casey, Fiona

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This thesis set out to examine the experience of female students in university and how their experience impacts on their understanding of their concept of identity. This qualitative research study explores, through in-depth interviews, the experience of five current undergraduate female students in Maynooth University. The themes of the interviews included; transitioning to university and role of family and peer support. Erikson’s life span personality development theory provides the foundation in understanding these students experience of university. Marcia’s four Identity statuses are used in interpreting the student’s reflections on their university life. The data from the interviews highlights the importance of friendships and peer relationships. This significant factor is present in various identity statuses and circumstances. My aim for this study is to highlight the importance of the non-academic university experience. I hope this enquiry will raise a deeper awareness of the ...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/9609/