The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is pleased to announce that a new collection – Equality of Opportunity in Practice: Studies in working, learning and caring – has been published in the Repository through the Irish Qualitative Data Archive (IQDA).
This collection consists of over sixty interview transcripts that were collected as part of the IRC-funded project: Equality of opportunity in practice: studies in working, learning, and caring.
This project is focused on an investigation of higher education in Ireland in terms of how equality of opportunity policies (EO) are operating in practice in the context of working, caring and learning. The project explores if, and how, the existence of EO policies, underpinned by law and EU directives, have an impact on the struggle against the economic and social inequalities across Ireland.
The research addresses important questions of every-day life specifically with a range of employees in different positions and institutions within the sector of higher education in Ireland. Using interviews with employees at four different higher education institutions in Ireland, the extent to which equal opportunities policies in the workplace impact on people’s lives are explored.
The research includes the following questions:
- Do equal opportunities policies make a substantive difference to equality at work?
- How is care and work balanced in every-day life, and how do equal opportunities policies impact on work-care boundaries?
- How do equal opportunities policies in education translate into practice?
- Do we have to have equality in economic and political conditions to make equality of opportunity a realizable policy objective?
“Equality of Opportunity in Practice: Studies in working, learning and caring” can be viewed and downloaded in the DRI Repository.
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