IQDA Projects

Date: Thursday 1st December 2011
Location: D4 Berkeley Hotel, Lansdowne Rd, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
Further information: www.growingup.ie

The conference will be opened by Ms. Frances Fitzgerald T.D., Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, who will launch some Key Findings from the recently completed Infant Cohort (at 3 years)  as well as some of the first longitudinal findings from the study.

The Keynote speaker is Professor Edward Melhuish, Professor of Human Development at Birkbeck, University of London and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Education, University of London. He is an internationally recognised expert in the study of child development and childcare and has extensive experience with longitudinal studies. His research interests include child development, parenting, childcare and early education.
A total of 24 papers will be presented at the conference by researchers from a wide range of third level and research institutions. These will be based on data from Growing Up in Ireland’s Child and Infant Cohorts and will focus on a range of topics including health, parenting, education and childcare.
 
 

Title: Outside the Glow. Protestants and Irishness in Independent Ireland, project transcripts
Depositor: Dr Heather Crawford

We are delighted to announce that the transcripts from Dr Heather Crawford's project, Outside the Glow. Protestants and Irishness in Independent Ireland, are now archived with the Irish Qualitative Data Archive and available for re-use.
 
Further information about the project

Audio recordings from the book launch for Outside the Glow. Protestants and Irishness in Independent Ireland can also be found at this link. (Sound levels are quite low, so headphones will be needed).
 
Aileen O'Carroll
 
 

UCD Press is holding a book launch for Outside the Glow, Protestants and Irishness in Independent Ireland by Heather K Crawford, in Newman House, 86 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2 on Monday the 8th March at 6 pm.
We are currently working with Dr Crawford to prepare the interviews that book is based on for depositing in the IQDA.
 
Aileen O'Carroll
 
 
 
 
 

We have added excerpts from the Life History and Social Change project to the web-page. In it, participants talk about school and work. It is intended to add further extracts. Further data from The Life History and Social Change project is currently being prepared for archiving.

The sound files can be found here and from our front page.

Aileen O'Carroll

We are delighted to announce that the Irish Qualitative Data Archive, in association with the Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative (CDI)  has been awarded a grant from the Irish Research Council for Humanities and the Social Sciences.  This exciting joint project, co-funded by Tallaght West CDI, aims to explore and implement innovative approaches to archiving the complex qualitative and contextual data generated by  the independent evaluation teams that have been commissioned by CDI, without overlapping or duplicating work already being undertaken.  It will document the concerns of both researchers and potential data users and will establish and disseminate best practice guidelines for archiving data generated in community-based evaluation research.  It will be a significant demonstrator project for the development of a wider culture of qualitative data archiving in Ireland.
Aileen O'Carroll