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Griffith Open collects, preserves and makes freely available research publications by Griffith College staff and learners. These can include, but are not limited to, theses, peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, working papers and conference papers, professional presentations, exhibitions and teaching resources. Where material has already been published it is made available subject to the open-access policies of the original publishers. This service is maintained by Griffith College Library.
Recent Submissions
Unity in Play: Photographic Narratives of Diversity and Integration in Sports in Ireland
(Griffith College, 2024) Ruiz Salinas, Benjamin
"Unity in Play... “is a photographic project documenting the history of the Gaelic football team Columbus, made up mostly of immigrants. In a sport traditionally played by the Irish since school age, the Columbus team is challenging the norms and redefining the meaning of belonging and community within Gaelic football.
Through a collection of images, this book explores their training sessions as well as their participation in matches against other GAA schools.
As well as their diverse backgrounds, the images show their passion for learning more about Irish culture, particularly through these sports so characteristic of the Emerald Isle. The book captures the beginnings of Columbus, its early members and some of their struggles for integration and acceptance within the Irish sporting community. The story of each player's journey to the team highlights the cultural and social barriers they faced, as well as the personal stories of overcoming and resilience. It also aims to raise awareness of the importance of inclusion and diversity in traditionally homogeneous sports, showing how Gaelic football can function as a cultural bridge and catalyst for social integration.
Through this book, readers will not only discover the world of Gaelic football from a new perspective but will also be immersed in the lives of immigrants who use sport to find a sense of belonging and community in their new home.
The Columbus team thus becomes a symbol of sport's ability to unite people from different backgrounds and cultures, promoting values of inclusion, solidarity, and respect.
Framing the Protestant Penumbra: Regional newspaper framing of Protestant identity in County Sligo 1914-1918
(Griffith College, 2025) Moller, Daragh
Newspaper framing by the Sligo Independent during the period 1914-1918 provides evidence of a community in its final days “class-washing” the Protestant community in Sligo.
By using the British Army’s reasserting of English upper-class values used to recruit Irish soldiers for the war effort, the Sligo Independent newspaper reasserted British-Irish nobility as a credible identity of the Protestant Sligo community.
A Tale as Old as Time: a radio documentary on how Millennials understand romantic love.
(Griffith, 2019) Sperger, Lena
This radio documentary focuses on Generation Y’s (people born from 1980-2000, also called the Millennials) understanding of romantic love and how this shapes their adulthood. The documentary features different people from this age group, both male and female. Through their stories, the documentary outlines their hopes and fears regarding romantic love as well as the social pressure they find themselves under. Today’s society has various definitions of romantic love relationships and we can see that these characterisations of love change among cultures but also generations. One that distinguishes itself significantly from others in its view on love and relationship is the Millennials. Therefore, this thesis will examine how Millennials understand romantic love relationships and how they influence them in their adulthood. The main thrust of this thesis is the definition of love as well as its origins. Furthermore, this thesis presents the creative decision which have been made in order to produce the radio documentary A Tale as Old as Time. Findings from this thesis suggest that Millennials are choosing a different perspective on love compared to older generations. This is influenced not only by social media but also on their perception on marriage, social norms, commitment and religious fidelity. Contributors in the documentary all related to their upbringing, social and cultural influences, how they define romantic love relationships and how they learned to love.
Unintentional Academic Impropriety, Changing the Negative to a positive
(Higher Education Colleges Association (HECA), 2021) Ní Bhraonáin
This presentation was part of a series organised by HAQEF, which hosted a series of online seminars with support from the National Forum’s seminar series 21/22 funding. These seminars exploree academic integrity through a framework of understanding, preventing, and empowering learners to prevent unintentional academic impropriety.
The four seminars included presentations and discussions by learners and representatives from a number of HECA Colleges, around reframing academic integrity perspectives, responding to unintentional academic impropriety, and the challenges of academic impoverishment from an international learning environment.
Learning outcomes:
Empower delegates to understand the difference between unintentional and intentional academic impropriety and some of the newer and more complex challenges to academic integrity in the 21st century such as essay mills and fake news.
Provide delegates with an overview of institutional initiatives and pedagogical approaches to preventing unintentional academic impropriety.
Provide delegates with an understanding of how staff across academic institutions can work in partnership with students to prevent unintentional academic impropriety.
Explore how educating students about unintentional academic impropriety can inform student transition, teaching and learning, student success and information literacy initiatives.
Explore how universal design initiatives can promote student engagement with academic integrity policies.
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