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October 1980 - April 1988
September 1971 - July 1972
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The MobiQ app for Android smartphones is a feature-rich application enabling a novel approach to data collection for longitudinal surveys. It combines continuous automatic background data collection with user supplied data. It can prompt users to complete questionnaires at regular intervals, and allows users to upload photographs for social researc...
In commissioned research, the aim of researchers is to generate work that influences the policy development process and is useful to policy-makers. The choice of research approach for projects commissioned by policy-makers has important implications for both these areas. This paper is a reflexive account of the authors' experiences in running a com...
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In this article we explore how self-regulation by the advertising industry has failed to address the exploitation of users’ personal information for targeted advertising through the use of smartphone application (app) permissions. Currently smartphone apps are posing a privacy risk of which users are largely unaware. Personal information c...
The chapters that make up this edited book all arise from a single European Commission Framework 7 collaborative research project, EUROIDENTITIES: ‘The Evolution of European Identity: Using biographical methods to study the development of European identity’, that ran from early 2008 through 2011. The seven partner teams that made up the project wer...
Dutch Elly,1 who migrated to the UK in the 1990s, was interviewed early on in the Euroidentities project. As a transnational worker who had moved from one EU member state to another, we expected her to have experienced Europe as an arena of relatively easy internal mobility. Indeed in her story she reflected on the ease with which she and her husba...
A series of log-linear models predicting the exchange marital experiences of Irish wives are prevented for the Irish Republic. The best explanatory model is one in which the relationship between a husband's occupational status and that of his father-in-law remains homogeneous across age levels, Women show a marked propensity to marry husbands at a...
In recent years a group of researchers at Cambridge (UK) have (re)introduced conceptions of open and closed systems into economics. In doing so they have employed these categories in ways that, in my assessment, both facilitate a significant critique of current disciplinary practices and also point to more fruitful ways of proceeding. In an issue o...
This short article continues the series introducing those interested in the study of politics to the various sources of data available in Ireland. Here we look at ARK (Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive), and in particular the most recent addition to its range of online resources, the Northern Ireland Qualitative Catalogue and Archive on...
Based largely on in-depth interviews with the majority of women local councillors in Northern Ireland, this article addresses two substantive issues: the reasons for the numerical underrepresentation of women and the issue of gender difference. The authors illustrate and explore these questions within the context of both the councillors’ own respon...
This article looks at the issue of context in relation to the construction of a catalogue and archive of qualitative material relating to the Northern Ireland conflict. Specifically if looks at “macro-context”, that is the broad socio-political environment in which qualitative data is gathered. In the case of Northern Ireland, macro-context mainly...
This article compares in regression models the effects of occupational status of both fathers and mothers simultaneously upon the attainment of men and women in the Irish Republic. The sample matches male respondents from the 1973/1974 Irish Mobility Study with the labour active female sibling next closest in age. Since the analysis compares workin...
SPSS for Social Scientists provides the novice researcher with a step-by-step guide to SPSS easily the most widely used data analysis package in the social sciences. Written in a clear and non-technical style, the book gives practical guidance that gradually builds up the readers knowledge, understanding and confidence.Beginning with an overview of...
The responses of 1,404 women and 386 men to a probability sample survey of political attitudes and participation in Northern Ireland are reported. A broad definition of political activity is employed that includes personal assertiveness in personal relationships. The results reveal women by and large to be less involved politically and more passive...
An anomaly exists between the high level of development and achievement of research into social mobility and its limited impact upon social stratification theory. Possibilities for increasing the substantive relevance of mobility research through the broadening of its conceptualization are discussed. The restrictions of most analyses to a limited s...
The history of social mobility has been a study of male mobility experiences. That is, not only have females been excluded by intention from these investigations, but, more importantly, it is argued that this omission is justifiable and legitimate. This is particularly so in relation to the British Isles where the heated defence of the traditional...
'Gender and Intergenerational Mobility in Northern Ireland
Since the early 1960s, feminists have challenged the sexist nature of social mobility research, deriding sociologists for their universally accepted research practice of excluding women from social stratification analysis. The present article is addressed to the general issue of female social stratification. Specifically, using a Republic of Irelan...
Two decades ago allegations of religious discrimination and the onset of ‘the troubles’ led the British Government to institute a programme of administrative and legislative reform in the province. These reforms culminated in the Fair Employment Act (1976). More recently, the Government began a review of the efficacy of the existing legislation and...
