Equality Studies - IADT
https://research.thea.ie/handle/20.500.12065/3337
2024-03-28T17:44:06ZWomen beyond the Dáil: establishing local caucus for women councillors
https://research.thea.ie/handle/20.500.12065/3443
Women beyond the Dáil: establishing local caucus for women councillors
McGing, Claire
2020-01-01T00:00:00ZWomen beyond the Dáil: more women in local government.
https://research.thea.ie/handle/20.500.12065/3442
Women beyond the Dáil: more women in local government.
McGing, Claire; Cullen, Pauline
2019-11-01T00:00:00ZSocial Networking; the People's Politics
https://research.thea.ie/handle/20.500.12065/3393
Social Networking; the People's Politics
Power, Andrew
Social networking gives a public voice to individuals and allows them to engage with society in ways not previously possible. Shirky (2010) argues that a driver for building civic engagement is the group working which is fundamental to social networking technologies and that this is building skills in governance amongst those who actively participate. The ‘wiring of humanity’lets us treat free time as a shared global resource, and lets us design new kinds of participation and sharing that take advantage of that resource. Flexible, cheap,and inclusive media offers opportunities to do new and different things. In a study by the Pew Research Centre those using social networks were more likely to be politically active (Evangelista, 2011). The increase in political engagement is suggested to stem from the fact that active social networkers tend to become more aware of issues from those in their network who are politically active. It acts as a ‘social sharing machine’; increases the visibility of issues and ‘
speeds up that collective action model’.
Young active citizens are finding new ways to engage, often through volunteering and especially through networked digital media. Social networks have provided a means of engagement between young people and their communities in a way that previous communications technologies failed to do. This paper builds on the previous work in this field and reviews examples of social networking and active citizenship in the community.
2012-04-01T00:00:00ZUnderstanding leadership in higher education as a tool for change in relation to gender
https://research.thea.ie/handle/20.500.12065/3340
Understanding leadership in higher education as a tool for change in relation to gender
Power, Andrew
Canavan, Siobhán; Drew, Eileen
Leadership in Irish higher education remains something of a monoculture. This extends not just to age, gender and ethnicity but to discipline. In an attempt to identify, nurture, motivate and empower new leaders of all genders, a first step is to understand the dynamics of leadership. The central message of this chapter is that leadership is a relationship and not an individual. As such, an understanding of leadership is incomplete without an awareness of the role and nature of followers. Individuals of different genders, backgrounds and ethnicities, with different skills and expertise from different organisational levels, produce a widening of organisational resourcefulness. This chapter begins with a review of leadership theory and implementation theory with a focus on public sector blockages between policymakers and the agents of change, acknowledging that leadership in the public and private sectors takes different approaches to adaptability, responsiveness and risk. The public sector focus on implementation and management has too often been code for control and measurement. This chapter demonstrates the applicability of these theoretical positions for the university sector and the place of gender and leadership within the sector.
2020-07-01T00:00:00Z