Log in

Relevant bibliographies by topics / Northern ireland, social conditions / Dissertations / Theses

To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Northern ireland, social conditions.

Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Northern ireland, social conditions'

Author: Grafiati

Published: 4 June 2021

Last updated: 30 July 2024

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles

Select a source type:

Consult the top 50 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Northern ireland, social conditions.'

Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.

You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.

Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.

1

Moran, Jade. "Informal justice in West Belfast : the local governance of anti-social behaviour in Republican communities." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609000.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

2

Lane, Karen. "Not-the-Troubles : an anthropological analysis of stories of quotidian life in Belfast." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15591.

Full text

Abstract:

To understand the complexity of life in a city one needs to consider a spectrum of experience. Belfast has a history of conflict and division, particularly in relation to the Troubles, reflected in comprehensive academic studies of how this has affected, and continues to affect, the citizens. But this is a particular mode of representation, a vision of life echoed in fictional literature. People's quotidian lives can and do transcend the grand narratives of the Troubles that have come to dominate these discourses. Anthropology has traditionally accorded less epistemological weight to fleeting and superficial encounters with strangers, but this mode of sociality is a central feature of life in the city. The modern stranger navigates these relationships with relative ease. Communicating with others through narrative – personal stories about our lives – is fundamental to what it is to be human, putting storytelling at the heart of anthropological study. Engagements with strangers may be brief encounters or build into acquaintanceship, but these superficial relationships are not trivial. How we interact with strangers – our public presentation of the self to others through the personal stories we share – can give glimpses into the private lives of individuals. Listening to stories of quotidian life in Belfast demonstrates a range of people's existential dilemmas and joys that challenges Troubled representations of life in the city. The complexity, size and anonymity of the city means the anthropologist needs different ways of reaching people; this thesis is as much about exploring certain anthropological methodologies as it is about people and a place. Through methods of walking, performance, human-animal interactions, my body as a research subject, and using fictional literature as ethnographic data, I interrogate the close relationship between method, data and analysis, and of knowledge-production and knowledge-dissemination. I present quotidian narratives of Belfast's citizens that are Not-the-Troubles.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

3

Corcoran, Mary Siobhán. "'Doing your time right' : the punishment and resistance of women political prisoners in Northern Ireland, 1972-1995." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2003. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/5637/.

Full text

Abstract:

The thesis is a case study in prison resistance. It examines the imprisonment and penal treatment of women who were confined for politically motivated offences in Northern Ireland between 1972 and 1995. It comprises an historical account of the main events in the women's prisons during the period, and establishes links between successive phases in the administration of political imprisonment and qualitative shifts in the character of prison regimes. The account also links the various punitive, administrative and gendered regulatory responses by the prison authorities to different strategies of collective organisation and resistance by women political prisoners. In modelling the cycle of punishment and resistance in terms of a dialectic of prison conflict, the thesis also argues that this relationship was grounded in prison regimes that combined both politicised and gendered correctional influences. The theoretical basis of the thesis comes from the Foucauldian formulation that structures of power or authority produce the conditions by which they are resisted. However, the thesis also engages feminist analyses in order to explain how `general' penal procedures take on different forms and meanings according to the disciplinary population upon whom they are practiced. This supports the argument that, just as prison punishment acquires specific forms when applied to different prisoner populations, punishment also forms the context in which prison resistance materialises. The practical and empirical basis of the thesis is grounded in the oral narratives of women former political prisoners, staff, and other relevant participants and observers.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

4

Lynch, Eamon. "Social capital and crime in Ireland and Northern Ireland." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491878.

Full text

Abstract:

This study discerns how, and the extent to which cnme III Ireland and Northern Ireland is related to social capital, homogeneity and tolerance measured in the European Values Survey. Higher levels of social capital are associated with lower crime and higher crime is associated with lower levels of social capital. Reported crime was 92% higher in Northern Ireland in 1999, as it had been for the previous five and ten years I. The level of unreported crime is higher in Northern Ireland. Social capital is higher in the Republic than in Northern Ireland in 100 of 128 European Values Survey 1999 measures (of social capital, homogeneity and tolerance). 21 were higher in NI. Higher levels of social capital, homogeneity and tolerance have a demonstrable and continuous downward impact on reported and unreported crime in the Republic of Ireland. The findings in this study do not support the GECD suggestion that trust can be a proxy for social capital, nor is voluntary activity alone a valid proxy. The level of involvement in sports and recreation, concern for the elderly, being prepared to help immigrants and spending time with work colleagues neighbourliness - is a more reliable indicator. Sporting membership is high in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The Ulster Tiger and Celtic Tiger help and hinder social capital. Satisfaction with the police and justice in Northern Ireland is increasing among Catholics and decreasing among Protestants but decreasing overall. Social bonding in credit unions, pubs, white collar crime and the black economy is considered as a form of social capital. The EVS 1999 results do not raise questions about the general applicability of the recommendations of the Patten Commission as a blueprint for police reform but the ESS 2003 suggests a need to evaluate the results of the Commission's recommendations. Twenty activities and policies are suggested to discourage crime through social capital, homogeneity and tolerance.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

5

Hume, John. "Derry beyond the walls : social and economic aspects of the growth of Derry 1825 - 1850 /." Belfast : Ulster Historical Foundation, 2002. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0807/2003428925-b.html.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

6

Niens, Ulrike Christine Paula. "Identity management strategies in Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274554.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

7

Sturgeon, Brendan Joseph James. "Anti-social behaviour in post-conflict Northern Ireland." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.534590.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

8

Machniewski, Sarah M. "Social harm and older people in Northern Ireland." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.534697.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

9

Hunter, John Alexander. "Social identity and social perception." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260838.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

10

Ditch, J. S. "Social policy in Northern Ireland between 1939 and 1950." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304111.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

11

Waddell, Francis Neil. "Situational determinants of social identity salience in Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328199.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

12

Corr, Jonathan. "The Identity of Northern Ireland - A Change over Time." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22609.

Full text

Abstract:

The result of Brexit in 2016 gave rise to an imposing question for many politicalscholars, what will happen to Northern Ireland? The region had seen a continuous dividesince its establishment under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, with violence taking centerstage over three decades in what has become known as ‘The Troubles’. This period ledto the death of some three thousand plus people. All had then been stabilized by theGood Friday Agreement in 1998, which sought to ensure cooperation amongst thepolitical parties, as well as the disarmament of paramilitary groups. Brexit may nowpressure this peaceful period as we see Northern Ireland becoming an increasing focalpoint between the Republic of Ireland, the European Union, and the United Kingdom.They all look to establish a more defined political foothold in Northern Ireland as itplays an increasingly larger role for the future of Europe. Internally, Northern Irelandalso has the ideologies of its citizens who still have strong beliefs in how the regionshould move forward. Nationalists still long for unification, uniting Northern Irelandwith the Republic of Ireland, while Unionists demand that they remain a part of theUnited Kingdom. Brexit is a major factor for the people of Northern Ireland, it hasswayed their opinion in favor of belonging to the European Union although they stillproceeded to leave at the end of January this year. This thesis explores the idea ofNorthern Ireland’s identity, whether it will sway in the opinion of the United Kingdom,the Republic of Ireland or become something new entirely.Keywords: Northern Ireland, identity, nation

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

13

Montgomery, Pamela Lynne. "The social construction of wife assault : a Northern Ireland study." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.356952.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

14

Cavanaugh, Kathleen Anne. "Protracted social conflict in Northern Ireland : a basic needs approach." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267845.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

15

McLaughlin, Rory William Gerard. "Credit unions in Northern Ireland : a historical and social analysis." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288546.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

16

Malmelöv, Linda. "Shared Education - Hope for Reconciliation in Northern Ireland." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-374259.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

17

Cecil, Rosamund Helanne. "Sectarianism, kinship and gender : a community study in Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.258252.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

18

Campbell, Andrea. "Social identity and prejudice as mult-dimensional components in Northern Ireland." Thesis, Ulster University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487707.

Full text

Abstract:

Two variables that feature prominently in research on intergroup conflict are social identity and prejudice. Traditionally these two variables have been treated as unidimensional constructs. Recent evidence however, suggests that both social identity and prejudice consist of a range of different dimensions. The major goal of the' current research therefore, was to explore the utility of viewing social identity and prejudice as multidimensional components in Northern Ireland. The present work rigorously investigated and subsequently identified the dimensional attributes ofsocial identity and prejudice. Following identification of various dimensions, app~opriate measures were constructed, tested and statistically analysed using SPSS and AMOS. The current research proposes that social identity is best viewed as involving five distinctive c

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

19

Loughrey, J. P. "Evidence-based social work practice in Northern Ireland : rhetoric and reality." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.426919.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

20

Stringer, A. N. "The family, social structure and four congregational memberships in Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of Essex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495616.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

21

Englberger, Florian. "Dealing with nationalism in view of a human need to belong : the feasibility of narrative transformation in Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16401.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis seeks to delineate what change in divided societies such as Northern Ireland is possible. Two steps are necessary to answer this question: first, to explain the potency of nationalism. I contend that taking the evolutionary history of humans and a human need to belong into account is essential for an understanding of A.D. Smith's ethno-symbolist approach to nationalism. We need to acknowledge that human beings emerged from small-scale settings and are therefore conservative beings who seek those patterns of familiarity that make up the ordinary ‘everyday'. They are also prejudiced beings, as prejudice helps to break down a complex world into digestible pieces. The ethnic state excluding an ethnic ‘other' is an answer to these calls for simplicity. By establishing an apparent terra firma, a habitus, symbols of an ethnic past and national present speak of nationalist narratives that provide a sense of ontological security. In (Northern) Ireland, ethno-national communities based on prejudiced understandings of history have long been established. In this second step I maintain that change that violates the core potent national narratives cannot be achieved. The Provisional IRA's change from insurrection to parliament became feasible because a radical break with republican dogmas was avoided. Sinn Féin, despite a rhetorical move towards ‘reconciliation', still seek to outmanoeuvre the unionist ‘other'. The history of Irish socialism, on the other hand, has been a failure, as it embodied a radical attempt to banish the ‘other' from the national narrative. Regarding ‘post-conflict' Northern Ireland, I argue for a peacebuilding approach that leaves the confinements of hostile identity politics, as these mass guarantors of ontological security possess only limited potential for relationship transformation. We need to appreciate those almost invisible acts of empathy and peace that could be found even in Northern Ireland's darkest hours.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

22

Greer, Jonathan. "Partnerships and public policy : a Northern Ireland perspective on the interaction between conditions and performance." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311522.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

23

Darby, J. "Intimidation and the control of inter-group conflict in Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.378752.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

24

Zivan, Noga. "Working the border : contact and cooperation in the border region, Ireland 1949-1972." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670144.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

25

Duffy, Mary. "Northern Ireland during the troubles : social attitudes and political preferences, 1968-1993." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324760.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

26

Gallagher, A. M. "Social identity and ideology in intergroup conflict : the case of Northern Ireland." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.232801.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

27

Hughes, Ciaran. "Networks, social capital and the voluntary and community sector in Northern Ireland." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680082.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

28

Senholzi, Keith B. Searing Donald. "Conflict in Northern Ireland through the lens of social identity theory and social dominance theory /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2012.

Full text

Abstract:

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.
Title from electronic title page (viewed Feb. 17, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Political Science, Concentration TransAtlantic Studies." Discipline: Political Science; Department/School: Political Science. UNC-Chapel Hill copy lacks abstract.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

29

Reilly, Paul. "Framing online communications of civil and uncivil groups in post-conflict Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/131/.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis explores the ways in which civil and uncivil groups in Northern Ireland use the Internet to generate soft power. This research assesses whether the Internet creates a critical multiplier effect for marginal groups, such as terrorists and interface communities. A coding scheme, adapted from previous studies of political part websites, is used to determine whether these groups have realised the potential of the Internet as a tool for political mobilisation. The dissertation considers whether there are any qualitative differences between the online framing of terrorist-linked parties and the constitutional parties in the region. The phenomenon of amateur terrorism is also analysed through the lens of Loyalist and Republican solidarity actors. The analysis determines whether solidarity actors were more likely to justify political violence on their websites than their respective political fronts. In addition, the websites of rival residents’ groups are examined to determine whether the Internet can help generate social capital across sectarian interfaces. The analysis determines whether residents’ groups use the Web to strengthen in-group identities, or to engage in dialogue with rival interface communities. In doing so, the research tests the cyberoptimist assertion that the Internet will facilitate forms of communication that undermine unequal power relations within nation-states. The online audience for Northern Irish terrorists is modelled using Internet usage patterns and the ranking systems used by Internet search engines. Internet usage patterns are examined to define the potential audience available to Northern Irish terrorists via their websites. The study suggests that there is little to differentiate between the websites of terrorist-linked groups, such as Sinn Fein, and the websites of constitutional parties, such as the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). In contrast, Loyalist and Republican amateurs often use paramilitary insignias on their websites to demonstrate their opposition to the peace process. However, these websites do not constitute a new dimension of terrorist threat to the peace process. Analysis of residents’ group websites suggests that they further the competition of ‘victimhoods’ between Loyalist and Republican interface communities. Both sides use their web presence to claim that they were constantly under threat of attack from the community situated at the other side of the ‘peaceline.’ Moreover, the thesis suggests that there will be a limited online audience for both civil and uncivil actors in Northern Ireland. The online audience for these actors is likely to consist of Internet users who use the Web for political research and Loyalist and Republican supporters in the ‘offline’ world.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

30

Willis, Michael Anthony. "Relative deprivation and political conflict : a Northern Irish case study." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302764.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

31

Dumont, Isabelle Marie. "Pillars of the house, women, community education and social change in Northern Ireland." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0017/MQ49562.pdf.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

32

Blair, Paula Ellen Ann. "Old borders, new technologies : visual culture and social change in contemporary Northern Ireland." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.554304.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis examines developments within contemporary experimental moving image production in Northern Ireland, exemplified in works by established and emerging artists, film-makers and performers. It identifies technological and formal convergences across media, and examines these in relation to the physical forms in which work is currently being exhibited and circulated, interpreted and evaluated. The aesthetic aspects of the works are contextualized within broader creative practices that blur boundaries between visual arts and subvert categories such as 'new media' and 'expanded cinema' that are becoming institutionalized. The study is shaped by four linked investigations into work concerned with the watching/being watched dyad emerging in issues of imprisonment, surveillance, traumatic recall, and myth-making. The first considers prison film-making from positions of memory-telling and rehabilitation in projects by the Prisons Memory Archive and Educational Shakespeare Company. Examined are video installations consisting of recordings of site-reactive testimonies told by former prisoners and staff of the now closed Maze and Armagh prisons. This is followed by serving prisoners' reinterpretations of Shakespeare as a means of telling their own collective story. The project turns to artists' inversions of state observation, which use surveillance devices reflexively to show how the real can be compromised by perception of the real. Public and private memories of trauma are encountered in live mixed media performance installations where the thesis explores connections between people's suffering expressed through varied art objects (e.g. screens, props, artists' bodies, etc.) in the same space. This raises questions surrounding the ethics and processes of representing difficult memories while confronting perceptions of female roles in conflict. Finally, the project considers artists' disruptions of history, myth, language, and interpretation to find different ways of articulating individual truths suppressed by communal 'official histories'.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

33

Dettori, M. "The literature of the Northern Ireland conflict : spatial, social, moral and psychological representations." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527914.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

34

Dillenburger, Karola. "Social-psychological adjustment to violent bereavement : a study of widows in Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302757.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

35

O'Neill, Gerard. "Subjectivity, self and social world : a study of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242172.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

36

Ferry, Finola Róise. "The economic and social burden of mood and anxiety disorders in Northern Ireland." Thesis, Ulster University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.673826.

Full text

Abstract:

Previous epidemiological studies suggest that mood and anxiety disorders are highly prevalent among the general population and are a leading cause of disease burden. Furthermore, mental health disorders have major economic implications for wider society in terms of elevated healthcare costs as well as reduced productivity among those who suffer these conditions. The central aim of the current thesis was to undertake the first comprehensive investigation of the economic and social burden of mood and anxiety disorders in Northern Ireland, based on validated diagnostic estimates. This was achieved by 1) an examination of the prevalence and correlates; 2) and investigation of levels of service use; 3) an estimation of the societal economic costs; and 4) an examination of the experience, mental health impact and economic costs of psychological trauma. Analyses were based primarily on data from the Northern Ireland Study of Health and Stress, the largest epidemiological study of mental health in Northern Ireland based on validated diagnostic criteria. A range of additional data sources were drawn upon to produce economic cost-of-illness estimates. All analyses were implemented using Stata. The current thesis clearly demonstrates that mood and anxiety disorders represent a substantial public health burden in Northern Ireland. Prevalence rates are among the highest of all estimates produced around the world. Civil conflict has undoubtedly contributed to high levels of mental ill health, manifested by the rates of PTSD and other trauma-related disorders. Despite the elevated burden of mood and anxiety disorders, the majority of individuals do not seek help. Cost-of-illness estimates suggest that these disorders are associated with an annual economic burden of around £1.45 billion and £1.35 billion respectively. Evidence presented throughout the current thesis provides a robust evidence-base to inform the provision of effective services for these conditions and allocation of resources to those most in need.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

37

Kamruzzaman, Md. "Examination of activity spaces: Identifying transport disadvantage in rural Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/103026/1/PhDThesis_Kamruzzaman.pdf.

Full text

Abstract:

The reduction of transport related social exclusion is a key goal of transport policy in rural Northern Ireland although very little is known to date about the extent of this phenomenon in the region. This research identifies different drawbacks associated with the processes leading to transport disadvantage, patterns of transport disadvantage in space and time, and the consequences of being transport disadvantaged in rural Northern Ireland. Spatial analyses were conducted to select three case study areas (Moira, Saintfield, and Doagh) using criteria derived from the literature. The criteria are related to the differential levels of area accessibility and area mobility which are known to influence travel behaviour. 4 focus groups, 458 questionnaires, and 157 weekly activity-travel diary data were collected from individuals living in the selected case study areas and were analysed in this research. Transport disadvantage is a function of a lack of transport and a lack of opportunities (land uses). Using d ata from the focus groups , a number of barriers associated with accessing transport and/or land use systems were identified in a qualitative way – an evaluation of the processes leading to transport disadvantage. On the other hand, individuals activity-travel behaviour patterns were visualised in a GIS environment using data from the questionnaires and activity-travel diaries . A model was developed and run using the ArcGIS ModelBuilder tool to derive scores associated with individual levels of mobility, accessibility, and participation in activities based on the concept of activity spaces for weekdays, weekends, and in a week . These indicators , therefore, measured the performance (outcome) of the processes of transport disadvantage in a quantitative way. However, the weaknesses associated with the traditional mobility, accessibility and participation based measures were identified using criteria derived from the literature and were addressed in this research through the incorporation of: socio-economic and spatio-temporal disaggregation; spatial relativity of the measures; interactions between different explanatory factors; and the partial contributions of different dimensional indicators (e.g. count, type, frequency, and duration of participation) used to measure participation through the development of a composite participation index (PI) measure. This research found that the process based and outcome based measures are complementary and can be used to triangulate the findings from each measure. Also that the spatial relativity and non-relativity concepts are complementary to each other and that the interactions between different explanatory factors generated new patterns of transport disadvantage. These patterns of transport disadvantage were found to vary in space and time and the transport needs of different disadvantaged groups were found to be different. Based on the study findings and a review of existing policies, this research highlights the imperative of policy responses that are tailored to particular sets of circumstances in different areas.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

38

Rutten, Rik. "A Licence to Kill? Ideology and civilian victimisation in Northern Ireland." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-354687.

Full text

Abstract:

Ideology matters. The return of this insight to the study of civil war has sparked a new line of literature. Drawing on its insights, I argue that ideology can affect civilian victimisation in two ways. The first is the adoption by armed groups of exclusionary frames that justify the killing of civilians; the second is the need of armed groups for civilian approval – what I call ideological licence – from their home constituencies.Civilian victimisation is expected to peak in places where exclusionary group frames and civilian attitudes are dominant. For the empirical analysis, I turn to The Troubles, the thirty year-long armed conflict between Northern Ireland’s Catholic and Protestant communities. I construct a novel dataset using ideological attitudes, based on a pre-conflict survey among over 1200 respondents across Northern Ireland, and new, detailed casualty data on more than 2700 conflict-related fatalities. Although Catholics were the most lethal side in the conflict, I find that the Protestant community is significantly more likely to kill civilians. This finding is driven by national differences between Catholics and Protestants. Subnational differences in civilian attitudes are found to be less relevant.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

39

Rusch, Michaela. "Changing Northern Ireland – Reflections in Language Usage and Change." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-229791.

Full text

Abstract:

With respect to its troubled past Northern Ireland has constantly been a field of interest, academic research and discourse. Certain periods in this past, like for example the “Troubles” (a time of violent struggle that began in 1969/70), sooner or later tend to create a particular approach towards language usage. As research has already been carried out on the “Troubles” and its language usage the question now remains in how far the application of lexical items would be changing through the impact of the so called peace process. Examining the language use surrounding this process a wide range of phenomena in the field of politics and social affairs but also in society could be analysed and discussed, assuming that change for some reason developed here. Investigating such circumstances further this empirical interdisciplinary study in the shape of a corpus analysis addresses the presumed language change in Northern Ireland by employing news texts (Belfast Telegraph, BBC Northern Ireland and An Phoblacht) of the period from 1995 to 2009 (i.e. before and after the Good Friday Agreement a negotiated settlement between Catholics and Protestants in 1998) for the analysis to attempt to establish a link between changing semantic and lexical units, and to some extend to even find a relation to alleged gradual social change. The evaluation is based on a qualitative and quantitative analysis of thematically pre-selected keywords in the areas of politics, social affairs, and society. Generally it could therefore be concluded that change – though marginal in numbers – appears perceivable. Despite a detailed examination and evaluation (qualitative and quantitative) it needs to be pointed out, however, that the findings of correlating social and linguistic variables could in the end only imply a kind of relation – contrary to the expectations in the beginning. Perhaps, in some cases, gradual change could be illustrated like for example with the name change of the police (RUC to PSNI) or changed social terminology. Nevertheless this study created an important contribution of research on post-“Troubles” Northern Ireland as it brings this statelet back into focus on the one hand and in addition prompts questions on the challenges of future language usage in societies that experienced violent conflict on the other. Corpus and Appendix on CD-Rom for printed copy available at University Library Chemnitz and German National Library

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

40

Warm, D. D. "The influence of different organisational settings on youth work practice in Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.233066.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

41

McAuley, M. Colette. "Children in long term foster care : emotional, social and psychological development." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324834.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

42

McKeown, Laurence. "'Unrepentant Fenian bastards' : the social construction of an Irish Republican prisoner community." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268178.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

43

Robinson, Leah Elizabeth. "Influence of social context on a theology of reconciliation : case studies in Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5993.

Full text

Abstract:

The theology of reconciliation, as it applies to God’s relationship with humanity, has been studied extensively throughout ecclesial history. Currently, theologians are expanding this research to include the “horizontal” element of reconciliation, or the implications of God’s relationship with humanity on human to human relations. This dissertation further examines the development of the horizontal understanding of the theology of reconciliation in the context of two Christian reconciliation communities in Northern Ireland, the Corrymeela and Cornerstone Communities. This is attempted by exploring the use of the concepts most commonly associated with the theology of reconciliation, truth, justice, repentance and forgiveness, as interpreted through past publications of Cornerstone and Corrymeela and in interviews with current members. This study illustrates, through the use of a theology of reconciliation model, how the social context moves one’s theological beliefs between a focus on liberating tendencies (justice and truth) and reconciling tendencies (repentance and forgiveness). The result of this analysis show that within both Communities, throughout the years of the Troubles to now, it has been possible to map a movement between a focus on reconciling and liberating tendencies that correlates to the stability of the social context. Implications for further study include: creating a clearer definition of the theology of reconciliation, exploring the theology of reconciliation within other conflict-ridden areas, and working to establish the theology of reconciliation as existing under the umbrella of traditionally understood local theology.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

44

Bacon, Derek. "Voluntary action in faith-based organizations in Northern Ireland : a contribution to social capital." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413842.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

45

Robson, Terry. "The state and community development in Northern Ireland : the A.C.E. Programme, for social change or social control?" Thesis, University of Ulster, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242174.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

46

Price, David. "Social being and the Navan complex, c.4000BC-c.90BC." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:af1eeb89-5840-4f4a-94fa-2b92284e92ff.

Full text

Abstract:

Archaeological records at the Navan site are fragmented and difficult to interpret. This site, in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, features artefacts extending over 4,000 years from the Neolithic period to the Iron Age. This thesis provides a framework for understanding this important material culture. Through an analysis of archaeological theories and specific physical items, links are established among the natural world, culture, and the Navan residents’ understanding of the cosmos. This analysis covers the landscape (e.g. topography), constructed objects (e.g. prehistoric infrastructure such as pools, roads and earthworks), and metaphysical concepts (e.g. sound and time), thus building a holistic picture of how these settlers might have viewed themselves, the physical world around them, and the spiritual world they imagined. While it is not possible to determine definitively these groups’ purposes and motives, the thesis finds clues in the incoherentarchaeological evidence. It explores possible functions for archaeological markers whose significance is not clear. These markers could, for instance, have beenmeans of social separation orceremonial signifiers. Therefore the thesis is both an analysis of a particular site and an investigation into how the archaeological process itself, specifically in a situation of challenging evidence, enables distant worlds to be understood.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

47

Quail, Brendan Joseph. "The use and formation of social networks among asylum seekers and refugees in Northern Ireland." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2017. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.728397.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis analyses the use and formation of social networks among the asylum seeker and refugee population in Northern Ireland. The social network perspective considers the phenomenon of migration as being socially embedded and places social relationships as its most important feature. Whilst the significance of social networks within migration theory remains paramount, contemporary empirical research has shown a shift in how they are utilised in response to wider social and political contexts. Social networks that traditionally supported asylum migration are argued to have lost their potency as 'new geographies' of asylum migration have been emerging. It is within this context that this thesis considers asylum migration to Northern Ireland and provides a deeper understanding of the significance of social networks. The anticipatory and transit phases of migration are investigated and are followed by an analysis of the initial resettlement and formative integration of asylum seekers and refugess currently residing in Northern Ireland. This research employs a qualitative methodology, multi-pronged in focus and encompassing semi-structured interviews, diary studies, focus groups and participant observation with members of Northern Ireland's asylum seeker and refugee population. Additionally, interviews with representatives from a range of refugee support organisations are utilised to provide broader background and context to Northern Ireland as a terminus. The research shows that an absence of 'migrant networks' and an inability to use legal channels of migration frequently necessitates the use of human-smugglers to enable migrant travel. Where strong ties fail to facilitate asylum migration and non-commercial 'weak' ties have limited scope, it is predominantly 'weak' commercial ties with smugglers which deliver the desired outcome. As a result, Northern Ireland has become a destination of chance and not choice.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

48

Horner, Rosemary Elaine. "School collaboration and social capital in a divided society : a case study of Northern Ireland." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.579716.

Full text

Abstract:

The aim of this study is to examine collaboration between post-primary schools using a social capital perspective. The study explores collaborative relationships in two Area Learning Communities in Northern Ireland. The study highlights that applying a social capital framework to the exploration of school collaboration is beneficial in illuminating the nature and complexities of relationships developed within the Area Learning Communities. The study indicates that bridging and bonding social capital may co-exist in the Area Learning Communities. However, it also suggests that whilst school have developed bridging links with each other the social capital created through relationships and interaction between schools has limits. The study indicates that social capital frameworks whilst beneficial do not provide a sufficient lens with which to examine the intricacies of school collaboration and that current conceptualisations of social capital do not adequately capture the complex reality of collaborative relationships. The kind of social capital which appears to be generated through collaborative working is nuanced by the context in which it is developing. The study suggests that a distinctive type of social capital may be produced though school collaboration in the context of a post-conflict society. Using social capital as an analytical framework has facilitated the exploration of the nature of trust within the Area Learning Communities. The study indicates that 'thick' trust and 'thin' trust may co-exist in relationships between schools in the Area Learning Communities. However the distinction between thick' trust and 'thin' trust is not clear cut and there are limitations to trust in the Area Learning Communities. Thus the existing models of trust do not adequately describe the findings of this study. The study indicates that trust exhibited in relationships in the Area Learning Communities may not necessarily be extended to the wider society and calls for the development of a more nuanced model of trust.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

49

Ewart, Shirley C. A. "An investigation into the involvement of fathers in family centre social work in Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.483498.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

50

Devine-Wright, Patrick. "Tracing the hand of history : the role of social memories in the Northern Ireland Conflict." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1999. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/699/.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

We offer discounts on all premium plans for authors whose works are included in thematic literature selections. Contact us to get a unique promo code!