• Discretion at the frontline of homeless service administration: primary and secondary rationing by street level bureaucrats in Irish local authorities 

  Murphy, Niamh (University College Cork, 2022-11)

  The number of people experiencing homelessness in Ireland has increased significantly in recent years, with almost 11,000 currently using homeless accommodation. In order to access services, people are required to present ...
• Sustainable development and participation in estate regeneration: a mixed methods case study 

  O'Leary, Seán A. (University College Cork, 2022)

  The concepts of ‘sustainable development’ and ‘participation’ share much in common, and, though contested, they are normative features of estate regeneration. This thesis explores how both concepts are understood and have ...
• The Atlantic Philanthropies – a study of the enactment of philanthrocapitalism in Ireland 

  Feely, Naomi (University College Cork, 2022-05-16)

  This research is concerned with the contemporary manifestation of philanthropy known as philanthrocapitalism. Characteristics of this model include the application of business language and methods to philanthropic giving ...
• Using digital storytelling with Irish farmers as an arts-based methodology to understand sustainability 

  Bowen, Maeve (University College Cork, 2021-12)

  The thesis investigates the ways in which sustainability is understood by farmers in a part of Southern Ireland. The central innovative methodology adopted for this study is the use of digital storytelling as an arts-based ...
• Risk, responsibility, and power in the regulation of Ireland’s financial services industry, 2004-2017 

  Cashman, Conor Joseph (University College Cork, 2021)

  As the Irish financial crisis of 2008 unfolded, public deliberation focused on the treatment of Ireland’s ‘bailed out’ financial institutions and the social and economic impact of austerity. Meanwhile, Ireland’s regulatory ...

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