Reports Copyright (c) 2013 Dublin Institute of Technology All rights reserved. http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep Recent documents in Reports en-us Wed, 15 May 2013 10:29:48 PDT 3600 Evaluation of the Early Years Programme of the Childhood Development Initiative: Full Report http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/41 http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/41 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 07:50:44 PDT Please note this is the full report

]]> Noirin Hayes et al. Evaluation of the Early Years Programme of the Childhood Development Initiative: Executive Summary http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/40 http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/40 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 07:50:43 PDT Noirin Hayes et al. Take Charge of Change: Being Young and Irish 2012: Full Report http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/39 http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/39 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 07:50:42 PDT Kevin Lalor et al. Evaluation of the Speech and Language Therapy Service of Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative: Full Report http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/38 http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/38 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 07:50:41 PDT Noirin Hayes et al. Early Intervention Speech and Language Therapy Service: Meeting Needs of Children, Families, Practicioners and Communities: Policy Brief http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/37 http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/37 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 07:50:40 PDT Noirin Hayes et al. Right by Children: Children's Rights and Rights Based Approaches to Policy Making in Early Childhood Education and Care: the Case of Ireland http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/36 http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/36 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 07:50:38 PDT Noirin Hayes et al. Our Opinions Matter: an Action Research Project with Parents and Children in the Canal Communities: Final Report http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/35 http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/35 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 07:50:37 PDT Noirin Hayes et al. Young People on Remand http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/34 http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/34 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 07:50:36 PDT Mairead Seymour et al. Ballymun Needs Analysis: Summary Report http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/33 http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/33 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 07:50:34 PDT Noirin Hayes et al. Our Views Anybody Listening: Researching the Views and Needs of Young People in Co. Kildare http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/32 http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/32 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 07:50:33 PDT Kevin Lalor et al. Cyberbullying Among 9-16 Year Olds in Ireland http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/31 http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/31 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:30:53 PST
  • Almost a quarter (23%) of 9-16 year olds surveyed experienced some form of bullying, online or offline. Bullying online or by mobile is less common (4%) than face to face. Levels of bullying in Ireland are a little above the average reported by the 25 countries (23% vs. 19%) but lower for cyberbullying (4% vs. 6%).
  • Bullying face to face is experienced by younger children (under 12) as well as by older teens. Online bullying is much less common among younger 9-12 olds and happens mostly to teenagers.

]]> Brian O'Neill et al. Being Young and Irish: Summary of consultation results http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/30 http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/30 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:00:38 PST FOREWORD BY PRESIDENT MICHAEL D. HIGGINS

I initiated the ‘Being Young and Irish’ consultation with the young people of Ireland because of my belief that we are in a period of immense change. How that change is interpreted and how we as citizens respond is crucial to our present challenging circumstances. Our response will define our future.

In the change that takes place, the creativity, the imagination, the decencies, of young people must have an opportunity of being expressed. To be in charge of change is the challenge that faces all of us citizens in Ireland, in Europe, in our world.

‘Being Young and Irish’ is an opportunity for young people to build a vision of the Irishness which they see as best for all of us in our different generations, now and for the future.

In taking part in ‘Being Young and Irish’ our young people joined those fellow humans all over the world who believe that a new world with the stamp of humanity can be created.

This report sets out the results of a consultation which took place in Ireland between May 25th and Sept. 29th with young people aged 17 – 26. Young people were invited to share their views on the future of Ireland in writing, through prose or poetry, or through music, or video. In addition, four regional workshops were held in Dublin, Monaghan, Cork and Galway. I would like to say how genuinely impressed and moved I have been by all those I met at the regional workshops, and by the contributions received here in Áras an Uachtaráin.

I would like to thank the researchers at Dublin Institute of Technology for collating the findings of the consultation in the report which follows. I would also like to thank all those who volunteered their time, energy and skills to ‘Being Young and Irish’. Most important of all, I would like to express my deep gratitude to the young people who joined workshops, or made contributions to the consultation. By so generously sharing of themselves - their hopes, their concerns, their vision and their vulnerabilities - and by reflecting with their peers on the future of Ireland, they demonstrate the active and inclusive citizenship necessary to transform and renew Ireland in this period of great challenge and change.

Michael D. Higgins

Uachtaráin na hÉireann

President of Ireland

]]> Kevin Lalor et al. Social Networking Among Irish 9-16 year olds http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/29 http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/29 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 04:07:59 PDT Social networking is a hugely popular and fast-growing online activity for young people in Ireland. In the EU Kids Online survey, while SNS use was not the most frequently mentioned online activity (‘watching video clips’ and ‘playing computer games’ were the most often cited items), it features across all age groups, and particularly so for teenagers.

]]> Brian O'Neill et al. Final Recommendations for Policy, Methodology and Research http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/28 http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/28 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:40:46 PDT The EU Kids Online project aims to enhance knowledge of European children’s and parents’ experiences and practices regarding risky and safer use of the internet and new online technologies, and thereby to inform the promotion of a safer online environment for children. The project is coordinated by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), with research teams and stakeholder advisers in each of the 25 countries and an International Advisory Panel. The network has been funded by the European Commission’s Safer Internet Programme in order to strengthen the evidence base for policies regarding online safety.

]]> Brian O'Neill et al. Profiles of Public Engagement: Findings from the Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/27 http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/27 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:00:19 PDT John Saltmarsh et al. Three Key Challenges Facing Higher Education and Policymakers http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/26 http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/26 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:11:06 PST Ellen Hazelkorn Youth Media Democracy: Perceptions of New Literacies http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/25 http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/25 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:18:35 PDT The conference ‘Youth Media Democracy’ was a two day event held in April of 2008. It set out to explore the effects that new media have on the younger generation with a focus on the tremendous opportunities that new media brings. The event had the ambitious aim to offer an integrated experience of a traditional academic conference, presenting recent research on topics like; new media; emerging literacies; the digital divide; new media as a platform for democracy in the lives of young people, and at the same time also engaging the participation of Youth through a series of workshops across different media platforms. This publication aims to present the ‘essence’ or ‘spirit’ of the conference and therefore, it is important to point out that it is not an exact representation of the proceedings as it unfolded. Due to the rather unconventional format of the event a mixture of reports, narratives and academic papers have been included. The chapters in the report includes information on the different stages of the youth portion of the conference; the perspective of the academic participant in the conference; a discussion around the emerging term of the ‘New Digital Divide’; the important role that the school plays in the development of new media literacy; how change is required to facilitate curricula to build on the natural interest of young people in using digital media; number of case studies from Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ; and children’s media in Africa in its global context.

]]> Jan Pettersen Pros and Cons of Research Assessment: Lessons from Rankings http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/24 http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/24 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:37:34 PDT Ellen Hazelkorn An Overview of New Psychoactive Substances and the Outlets Supplying them http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/23 http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/23 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:26:15 PDT This report represents the outcome of a review of new psychoactive substances2 within the Irish context, including a review of the outlets that supply these substances. The review was commissioned by the National Advisory Committee on Drugs (NACD) in accordance with Action 14 of the National Drugs Strategy (interim) 2009–2016. Action 14 provides for the monitoring of ‘head shops’3 and other outlets for the sale of psychoactive substances, under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 and the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Regulations 2007. Researchers at the Centre for Social and Educational Research (CSER) within the School of Social Sciences and Law at Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), and at the School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (DIT), conducted the review between May and August 2010.

]]> Cathy Kelleher et al. Risks and Safety for Children on the Internet: the Ireland Report http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/22 http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/22 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:06:49 PDT This report presents initial findings for Ireland from the pan-European EU Kids Online survey – a large 25 country survey conducted by EU Kids Online and funded by the EC’s Safer Internet Programme. The questionnaire was designed by the EU Kids Online network, coordinated by the London School of Economics and Political Science. Fieldwork was conducted by Ipsos MORI.


In what follows, Irish findings are compared with those from other countries, as reported in Livingstone, S., Haddon, L., Görzig, A., and Ólafsson, K. (2010). Risks and safety on the internet: The perspective of European children. Initial findings. LSE, London: EU Kids Online. See www.eukidsonline.net.

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