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Papers by Maura Adshead
Economic and Social Review, 2006
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
Informal and unregulated work is the norm rather than the exception in emerging economies. This s... more Informal and unregulated work is the norm rather than the exception in emerging economies. This study was conducted in India where nine out of 10 women are occupied in informal, unregulated work, and are vulnerable to low-wages, exploitation, and interconnected cultural and social-economic injustices. The Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) and their education wing the Indian Academy of Self-Employed Women encourage their members to self-define as "selfemployed workers" and facilitate identity-based worker education and leadership training. Drawing on insights from the Social Identity Approach to Learning and the New Psychology of Leadership this cross-sectional study (N = 300) explored if this shared social identity significantly predicted participants perceived identity-leadership ability. We further explored if this relationship was partially explained by SEWA norms, values, and beliefs, developed during learning, and measured as "awareness of gendered inequality", "injustice consciousness", and "collective efficacy". A parallel mediation analysis found a direct relationship between "self-employed women identity" and "identity-leader ability" and indirect relationships
European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2022
The Youth Global Awareness Programme (YGAP) is a 2-week residential ‘popular education’ programme... more The Youth Global Awareness Programme (YGAP) is a 2-week residential ‘popular education’ programme for young, diverse, international, labour movement activists, run by the International Federation of Workers Education Associations in Cape Town, South Africa. In this mixed method study (N = 47), we draw on the Social Identity Approach to Education and Learning. We propose that the participatory, peer-to-peer learning during YGAP leads to activist identity change, where critical consciousness, collective empowerment and global awareness develop as group norms. The first longitudinal questionnaire study found significant increases in activist identity and critical consciousness, which predicted increased collective empowerment. In the second focus group study, data were analysed with reflexive thematic analysis and two themes provide compelling evidence of learning during YGAP as identity change processes. Participants’ commonalities and differences enhanced activist identities with glo...
Politics in Ireland, 2009
Politics in Ireland, 2009
Politics in Ireland, 2009
In March 2009 CVVM focused on political culture and political Parties in Czech Republic. Accordin... more In March 2009 CVVM focused on political culture and political Parties in Czech Republic. According to major part of czech citizens (81%) arguments, problems and scandals are common and occur in other democracies, although major part of addressed respondents (82%) expressed their opinion that these argumentations and scandals discredit us abroad. Almost all respondents (90%) agreed that there is need to inform public about the problems, argumentations and scandals, because czech politicians need to be under control of public. Citizen opinions of political culture in our country prove that three quarters of czech citizens think ,that these political disputations and scandals, that occur in public - serve only to settle one’s account. And a half of people do not agree with that it serves to settle the objective arguments.Czech citizens are critical to political culture of people, who are public officers. More than half of citizens praise only political culture of local public officials
Politics in Ireland, 2009
Politics in Ireland, 2009
Politics in Ireland, 2009
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
Times of economic crisis are difficult for everyone, but are perhaps most difficult for immigrant... more Times of economic crisis are difficult for everyone, but are perhaps most difficult for immigrants, because as jobs are lost and social supports are stripped away, immigrants are amongst the first groups to be targeted. A commonly observed accompaniment of economic crisis is increased ethnocentrism as the majority group seeks to protect its threatened interests. Social identity thus marks ethnic minorities and immigrants as targets of prejudice and discrimination, but it is also an important source of social support, which becomes all the more valuable during tough economic times. Using Deaux’s tripolar (2006) model of the immigrant experience as our framework, we conducted two studies to examine the ways in which African and Asian immigrant women in Ireland negotiate social identities in the context of economic crisis, social exclusion, and racial discrimination. The results indicate that Asian and African immigrant women in Ireland experience moderate levels of social exclusion and marginalization, and that asylum seekers experiences are more extreme than those who have achieved residency. Importantly, the experience of social exclusion and marginalization predicts psychiatric symptoms and lower global well-being. These results are discussed in relation to social psychological theory and social policy.
Abstract will be provided by author.
Abstract Using a ‘new governance’ framework, this paper charts the evolution of the Irish Nationa... more Abstract Using a ‘new governance’ framework, this paper charts the evolution of the Irish National Anti-Poverty Strategy (NAPS) and assesses,the extent of change in policy institutions, the processes and performance, as well as looking at the implications that these hold for policy accountability and the role of the state in fostering social inclusion. The evolution and progress,of the NAPS is assessed against the three-fold
Economic and Social Review, 2006
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
Informal and unregulated work is the norm rather than the exception in emerging economies. This s... more Informal and unregulated work is the norm rather than the exception in emerging economies. This study was conducted in India where nine out of 10 women are occupied in informal, unregulated work, and are vulnerable to low-wages, exploitation, and interconnected cultural and social-economic injustices. The Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) and their education wing the Indian Academy of Self-Employed Women encourage their members to self-define as "selfemployed workers" and facilitate identity-based worker education and leadership training. Drawing on insights from the Social Identity Approach to Learning and the New Psychology of Leadership this cross-sectional study (N = 300) explored if this shared social identity significantly predicted participants perceived identity-leadership ability. We further explored if this relationship was partially explained by SEWA norms, values, and beliefs, developed during learning, and measured as "awareness of gendered inequality", "injustice consciousness", and "collective efficacy". A parallel mediation analysis found a direct relationship between "self-employed women identity" and "identity-leader ability" and indirect relationships
European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2022
The Youth Global Awareness Programme (YGAP) is a 2-week residential ‘popular education’ programme... more The Youth Global Awareness Programme (YGAP) is a 2-week residential ‘popular education’ programme for young, diverse, international, labour movement activists, run by the International Federation of Workers Education Associations in Cape Town, South Africa. In this mixed method study (N = 47), we draw on the Social Identity Approach to Education and Learning. We propose that the participatory, peer-to-peer learning during YGAP leads to activist identity change, where critical consciousness, collective empowerment and global awareness develop as group norms. The first longitudinal questionnaire study found significant increases in activist identity and critical consciousness, which predicted increased collective empowerment. In the second focus group study, data were analysed with reflexive thematic analysis and two themes provide compelling evidence of learning during YGAP as identity change processes. Participants’ commonalities and differences enhanced activist identities with glo...
Politics in Ireland, 2009
Politics in Ireland, 2009
Politics in Ireland, 2009
In March 2009 CVVM focused on political culture and political Parties in Czech Republic. Accordin... more In March 2009 CVVM focused on political culture and political Parties in Czech Republic. According to major part of czech citizens (81%) arguments, problems and scandals are common and occur in other democracies, although major part of addressed respondents (82%) expressed their opinion that these argumentations and scandals discredit us abroad. Almost all respondents (90%) agreed that there is need to inform public about the problems, argumentations and scandals, because czech politicians need to be under control of public. Citizen opinions of political culture in our country prove that three quarters of czech citizens think ,that these political disputations and scandals, that occur in public - serve only to settle one’s account. And a half of people do not agree with that it serves to settle the objective arguments.Czech citizens are critical to political culture of people, who are public officers. More than half of citizens praise only political culture of local public officials
Politics in Ireland, 2009
Politics in Ireland, 2009
Politics in Ireland, 2009
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
Times of economic crisis are difficult for everyone, but are perhaps most difficult for immigrant... more Times of economic crisis are difficult for everyone, but are perhaps most difficult for immigrants, because as jobs are lost and social supports are stripped away, immigrants are amongst the first groups to be targeted. A commonly observed accompaniment of economic crisis is increased ethnocentrism as the majority group seeks to protect its threatened interests. Social identity thus marks ethnic minorities and immigrants as targets of prejudice and discrimination, but it is also an important source of social support, which becomes all the more valuable during tough economic times. Using Deaux’s tripolar (2006) model of the immigrant experience as our framework, we conducted two studies to examine the ways in which African and Asian immigrant women in Ireland negotiate social identities in the context of economic crisis, social exclusion, and racial discrimination. The results indicate that Asian and African immigrant women in Ireland experience moderate levels of social exclusion and marginalization, and that asylum seekers experiences are more extreme than those who have achieved residency. Importantly, the experience of social exclusion and marginalization predicts psychiatric symptoms and lower global well-being. These results are discussed in relation to social psychological theory and social policy.
Abstract will be provided by author.
Abstract Using a ‘new governance’ framework, this paper charts the evolution of the Irish Nationa... more Abstract Using a ‘new governance’ framework, this paper charts the evolution of the Irish National Anti-Poverty Strategy (NAPS) and assesses,the extent of change in policy institutions, the processes and performance, as well as looking at the implications that these hold for policy accountability and the role of the state in fostering social inclusion. The evolution and progress,of the NAPS is assessed against the three-fold