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Analysing Photographs in Counter Culture
(SAGE, 2019-01) Quinlan, Christina
This case study is focused on the analysis of visual data. The data are a series of my photographs of food counters in shops and restaurants in and around Dublin city, Ireland. The photographs depict the city as it is, modern, globalised, affluent, and sophisticated. The dataset is used here to explain my four-stage approach to data analysis (Quinlan, 2011a, Quinlan et al., 2015). The four stages in data analysis are as follows: Stage 1 is description, the researcher describes what they see in the data; Stage 2 is interpretation, the researcher interprets what they see in the data, the researcher explains what the data mean; Stage 3 is conclusion, the researcher draws conclusions from the data; and in the fourth stage, the researcher theorises the data. Using the Counter Culture dataset, I explain in detail each of these four stages in data analysis. The dataset files are accompanied by a Teaching Guide and a Student Guide.
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Business Research Methods
(South Western Cengage, 2019) Quinlan, Christina; Babin, Barry; Carr, Jon; Griffin, Mitch
This textbook aims to provide a balanced introduction to research methods for today’s undergraduate business students. It does this by synthesising rigorous coverage of methodologies with an accessible ‘real-world’ approach. The text follows course learning objectives for undergraduates in business and provides examples drawn from the full range of business subjects from marketing and strategy to human resource management. The text has unique features: for example, it introduces the four frameworks approach to the research project. The four frameworks approach provides beginner researchers, as well as more advanced researchers, with a simple model that will guide them in the development of their research projects. It facilitates researchers in the task of developing properly focused, fully integrated research projects. The textbook is very sympathetic to the challenges facing a student engaging with the subject for the first time and provides an integrated and balanced approach to quantitative and qualitative research. The writing is simple and direct and the examples and case studies presented were selected particularly with an undergraduate readership in mind. In summary, the text provides a unique and simple yet comprehensive introduction to research methods for business students. Business Research Methods is a valuable resource for all undergraduate business students, particularly for second- and third-year students on business research methods courses. It provides an excellent introduction to the work of undertaking research in an academic environment. This text is essential reading for all business students required to undertake research projects. Postgraduate students, and indeed students from other non-business disciplines, will also find the text very helpful.
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Business Research Methods
(South Western Cengage, 2015) Quinlan, Christina; Zikmund, W.; Babin, Barry; Carr, Jon; Griffin, Mitch
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A Case Study Using Historical Timelines: Developing a Research Methodology for a Study of Policing Women’s Bodies
(SAGE, 2018) Quinlan, Christina
This SAGE case study details the way in which I developed my research for my journal article entitled Policing Women’s Bodies in an Illiberal Society: the case of Ireland. In this SAGE case study, I explain how I carried out the research for this project and how I structured the research. The key issue with this research project was the enormous scope of the study. The policing of women’s bodies is a very broad topic, and this, coupled with the long timeframe of the study, made this project a very big research project. To cope with the scope of the research project, I developed a specific research methodology for the study. This research methodology allowed me (1) to conduct the study I wanted to conduct .
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‘Co-creation’ The experiences of student researchers in a ‘co-creation assessment project’ with academic staff.
(2017-09-13) Crisp, Annette; Hine, Jean; Quinlan, Christina; Turgoose, Di
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De-Criminalising Adolescent to Parent Violence Under s 76 Serious Crime Act 2015
(Sage Publishing, 2019-10-09) Bettinson, Vanessa; Quinlan, Christina
This article questions the appropriateness of including adolescent to parent violence (APV) within the elements of a criminal offence designed to criminalise domestic violence and abuse (DVA). The offence, s. 76 Serious Crime Act 2015 prohibits controlling and coercive behaviours towards a person personally connected to the defendant. This spans on-going intimate relationships and a wide range of family relationships. The authors conducted a small-scale research study that looked at practitioner’s understandings of APV, and found that many cases of APV could satisfy the s. 76 offence. The article examines the correlation between the concepts of coercive control and APV, noting that there are significant differences that justify treating adolescent-perpetrators of APV differently to adult-perpetrators of intimate partner coercive control in the criminal law. These factors concern the unique vulnerabilities of both the parent-victim and the adolescent-perpetrator in APV and human rights law requires the equal protection of both parties on the basis of their vulnerability.
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Feminist Ethics and Research with Women in Prison
(Prison Journal, 2022-03-23) Quinlan, Christina; Baldwin, Lucy; Booth, Natalie
In this article, we propose a new model, An Ethic of Empathy, as a guide for researchers, particularly new scholars to the discipline. This model emerged from our concerns regarding the application of ethics and research to women in criminal justice systems. The key issue is the vulnerability of incarcerated and post-release women in relationship to the powerful status of social scientists whose studies focus on the experiences of female offenders. in these circumstances. We believe that the complexity of ethics in such research settings necessitates a particular ethical preparation, involving formation, reflection, understanding, commitment, care, and empathy. We outline three cases, documenting our own ethical formation as researchers.
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Mentoring, coaching and action learning: Interventions in a national clinical leadership development programme
(Wiley, 2014-01-07) Fealy, Gerard; McNamara, Martin; O'Connor, Tom; Patton, D.; Doyle, Louise; Quinlan, Christina
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To evaluate mentoring, coaching and action learning interventions used to develop nurses' and midwives' clinical leadership competencies and to describe the programme participants' experiences of the interventions. BACKGROUND: Mentoring, coaching and action learning are effective interventions in clinical leadership development and were used in a new national clinical leadership development programme, introduced in Ireland in 2011. An evaluation of the programme focused on how participants experienced the interventions. DESIGN: A qualitative design, using multiple data sources and multiple data collection methods. METHODS: Methods used to generate data on participant experiences of individual interventions included focus groups, individual interviews and nonparticipant observation. Seventy participants, including 50 programme participants and those providing the interventions, contributed to the data collection. RESULTS: Mentoring, coaching and action learning were positively experienced by participants and contributed to the development of clinical leadership competencies, as attested to by the programme participants and intervention facilitators. CONCLUSIONS: The use of interventions that are action-oriented and focused on service development, such as mentoring, coaching and action learning, should be supported in clinical leadership development programmes. Being quite different to short attendance courses, these interventions require longer-term commitment on the part of both individuals and their organisations. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: In using mentoring, coaching and action learning interventions, the focus should be on each participant's current role and everyday practice and on helping the participant to develop and demonstrate clinical leadership skills in these contexts.
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Motherhood and Social Exclusion: Narratives of Women in Prison in Ireland
(Demeter Press, 2019-01) Quinlan, Christina
This chapter details the experiences of motherhood and social exclusion in Ireland. The particular focus of the chapter is on experiences of women of motherhood within Ireland’s criminal justice system and experiences of women of motherhood within Ireland’s conceptions and apparatuses of social justice. The entrenched nature of patriarchy in Ireland is examined and explained in the chapter, as is the intertwining of church and state and the consequent shaping of Irish society. Ireland, with its catholic ethos and habitus, has had particularly idealised notions of motherhood, and particularly idealised notions of femininity. These idealised constructs have had, and they continue to have, very serious implications and consequences for women, for mothers who have come into contact with the criminal justice system and, for those who have not contravened the law but whose attitudes and behaviours were deemed to be in need of adjustment and correction. This chapter provides an historical overview of mothering and social exclusion in Ireland. It outlines the uneven power relations that shaped women’s experiences of mothering and the social exclusion many women endured as a result of their experience of mothering. Detail is provided on the history of supports available in Ireland for mothers to help them mother. The need to mother, to carry to give birth and to mother children, is considered. The implications and the consequences of this need and of these experiences, in particular for women experiencing social exclusion are explored.
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Policing Women's Bodies in an Illiberal Society: the case of Ireland
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-01-26) Quinlan, Christina
This journal article outlines the history of the policing women’s bodies in Ireland in the context of law, crime and reproduction. It does this by means of three case studies. The first case study explores the policing of women’s bodies in relation to sexuality. The second case study focuses on reproduction and the policing of women’s bodies in relation to reproduction. The third and final case study considers the policing of women’s bodies in relation to abortion. Taken together, these three case studies provide an overview of the capacity, and indeed the readiness, that exists in Irish society to police women’s bodies and to do so particularly in relation to sexuality and reproduction.
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Sexuality, the law and the experiences of women in Ireland
(SAGE, 2020-05) Quinlan, Christina
The history of women’s experiences and expressions of sexuality in Ireland is for the most part very sad. It is a history of controlling women, of disciplining women, of punishing women. As is often if not usually the case, women’s experiences and expressions of sexuality have been problematised in ways that men’s experiences and expressions have not. This is related primarily, it can be argued, to the traditional position and function of women in the family and their role in and experiences of reproduction. This chapter is about power and powerlessness. It describes the power of those positioned to construct, interpret and represent female sexuality. The focus is on their propensity to frame female sexuality as problematical, even deviant. In the chapter, I consider the life experiences of women, those experiences crafted by the powerful. A great deal has been written about the experiences of women and sexuality in Ireland, particularly in terms of the harsh consequences for women (Ferriter, 2012; Quinlan et al., 2015; Quinlan, 2017). Much has been written about the difficult, often cruel and sometimes even fatal experiences of women whose experiences and expressions of their sexuality set them at odds with the dominant discourse and culture (Crowley and Kitchin, 2008; Garrett, 2016; Quinlan, 2017). The contribution that this chapter makes is in the framing of women’s experiences of sexuality in Ireland within the context of laws enacted to manage and control their sexuality/sexualities within the society in which those laws were created. This chapter details changes in sexuality and consequent changes in legislation in relation to sexuality that have taken place in Ireland over the past 80 years. The laws enacted generated the policy responses to women’s sexuality/sexualities that shaped the experiences of individual women. These laws emerged from a prevailing societal consensus, as laws generally do in democratic societies, and they contributed to a societal sense and understanding of what is right, appropriate and acceptable in terms of women’s experiences and expressions of sexuality. The consequences for women who contravened societal norms in terms of experiences and expressions of sexuality were severe. This chapter considers the revolution in Irish sexuality and its implications. The time period covered in the chapter is 80 years, the span of one lifetime. It is extraordinary to see how, over those 80 years, Ireland changed so profoundly.
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Using visual methods to explore identity among women in prison in Ireland
(SAGE Research Methods Datasets, 2021) Quinlan, Christina
This dataset is a series of photographs from the women’s prisons in Ireland. The data are my own and part of a large ethnographic study of the experiences of women in prison in Ireland. I took these photographs of the spaces within the prisons, including the women’s personal prison spaces, to develop my study of identity, the construction and representation of the identities of women in prison in Ireland. The data are presented here as a means of teaching the value and use of visual data in research.
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Within these Walls: Reflections of women in and after prison: an insight into the experience of women’s imprisonment in Britain and Ireland.
(Prison Service Journal, 2018) Baldwin, Lucy; Quinlan, Christina
This paper, based on the authors’ continuing work with women in custody in Ireland and Britain over a period of 6 years, poignantly reminds us of the women in our prisons and the extraordinarily punitive sanction, that imprisonment often is for such women. The Corston Report was regarded as a revolutionary beacon of light for activists and academics working in the field of women’s imprisonment. Baroness Corston, in a powerful way, drew the attention of the British government to the plight of women in prison, to the injustice of adding criminal sanctions to social disadvantage for some of the most vulnerable in society. The report enlivened activists, sparking ideas and opening up new possibilities regarding radical change for women in criminal justice systems. The question now, 11 years on, is whether all that promise was realised. By way of a contribution to answering that question, this article reflects on the reality of women’s imprisonment in Britain and Ireland today.
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Women, Imprisonment and Social Control
(Routledge, 2016) Quinlan, Christina
This chapter explores the history of female incarceration on the island of Ireland which has a number of distinctive features. For example, The Republic represents an interesting case study, since its female incarceration rate was among the highest in the world during the nineteenth century but fell dramatically during the twentieth century. The political conflict in Northern Ireland led to the incarceration of politically motivated female prisoners whose unique experiences of prison life have generated novel insights into the lives of incarcerated women more generally. In addition, the chapter discusses innovative prison regimes, focusing in detail on the Dóchas centre, a women’s prison in the Republic which, when it opened in 1999, was regarded as an example of best practice by international experts in the field. Finally, the impact of wider issues, such as gender, power, social control and women’s rights, is considered.

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