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(Royal College of General Practitioners, 2019)Background: In May 2018, the Irish Constitution was changed following a referendum allowing termination of pregnancy by abortion. It is envisaged that the majority of terminations will be by medical abortion and will ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2019)Academic capitalism is an outcome of the interplay between neoliberalism, globalisation, markets and universities. Universities have embraced the commercialisation of knowledge, technology transfer and research funding ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2019)Political parties are important actors in domestic climate politics. What drives variation in parties’ climate policy preferences? To contribute to a growing literature on the party politics of climate change, we focus on ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2019)Using a Feminist Institutional perspective, this paper suggests that the explanation for the slow pace of change in the gender profile of the professoriate lies in the gender awareness of managerial leadership. In Irish ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2019)This article is concerned with the source of men’s invisible advantage in the male dominated disciplines of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). It is suggested that this advantage has been obscured by ...
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(Liverpool University Press, 2019)The study of bardic poetry was first placed on a scientific footing through the labours of Osborn Bergin and Eleanor Knott little over one hundred years ago. Others have continued in their footsteps to the present day with ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2019)The Presidency plays a crucial role in the management and organisation of the Council’s work and the institution’s interactions with third parties. Formally, the Presidency just chairs the meetings of Council bodies; but ...
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(University of Limerick, 2018)Increasingly, people are seeking health-related information online, and patient-oriented websites offer tremendous potential to educate and empower people. However, concerns have been raised about the quality of online ...
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(Hart Bloomsbury, 2018)The Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution Act 1995 removed the ban on divorce from the Irish Constitution. It was the second attempt at removing the ban; the first in 1986, ended with a substantial victory for the ...
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(2019)This article discusses the topic of digital learning, the period abroad (PA) (in study or employment) and the potential exploitation of the Digi-languages.ie online portal. We will present some of the latest initiatives ...
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(National University of Ireland, 2019)Is mar fhorlíonadh leis an irisleabhar Ériu a foilsíodh téacs an tráchtais Irish Grammatical Tracts V [IGT V feasta]. I riocht neamhiomlán atá an t-eagrán sin ón mbliain 1955 sa méid is gur cosúil nach raibh sé réidh don ...
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(SAGE Publications, 2019)Using the concept of stealth power and a critical realist perspective, this article identifies leadership practices that obscure the centralisation of power, drawing on data from interviews with 25 academic decision-makers ...
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(Emerald, 2019)Purpose-The purpose of this article is to explore the enactment of a pragmatic inclusionary strategy and related tactics as a form of feminist activism in one university. Design/methodology/approach- The article uses ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2019)Global scholarship has documented gender discrepancies in power in higher education institutions (HEIs) for several decades. That research is now supported by wider gender equality movements such as those concerned with ...
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(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)Diversity in higher education and research organisations is conducive to research innovation and economic growth (EC 2012a; OECD 2012). Yet male dominated educational institutions have been remarkably resistant to change. ...
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(Roundhall Sweet and Maxwell, 2019)Despite the enormous social changes which have taken place in Ireland in recent decades, marriage remains a popular institution in the jurisdiction. According to the Central Statistics Office of Ireland, over 22,000 marriages ...
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(Queen's University Belfast, School of Law, 2019)The importance of pensions as a source of family wealth has attracted increased attention during the first decades of the twenty-first century. In particular, ever-greater focus is now being placed in many jurisdictions ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2019)Since its emergence in the late 1970s, posthumous conception has provoked controversy. However, notwithstanding that a number of jurisdictions continue to apply a blanket ban on the posthumous use of genetic material, many ...
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(Brill, 2019)The differences between the statutory formalities required for entry into a legally recognised marriage in many common law jurisdictions and traditional Muslim marriage practice have given rise to doubts as to the legal ...
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(Brill, 2019)The legal protections that are afforded – or, in many cases, are not afforded – to religious minorities right across the world are attracting increased attention. Although concern for the plight of religious minorities is ...