2014-15
The 1914 WWI Christmas Truce and Flanders Peace Field: Learning from Humanity and Society
Date: 2nd October 2014
The Institute for Lifecourse and Society, in collaboration with the School of History, will host a Distinguished Lecture by journalist, author and humanist, Don Mullan. The lecture will tell the story of the 1914 unofficial Christmas Truce during World War 1, and its implications for Youth peace movements. In the lecture, he will draw parallels with his own experience of growing up in war-torn Derry during the 'Troubles'.
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An Empirical Analysis of the Time Allocation of Farm Household Members in the West of Ireland: Researching Time Using Diary Based Methods
Date: 27th September 2014
This presentation reports on research into the task management and time use in rural households in order to increase understanding of livelihood strategies, household organisation, and leisure time choices and constraints of farm families. The research provides a detailed understanding of how farm household members in the West of Ireland allocate an important household resource: their time. Data collection was using a single purpose time use diary survey and the research also makes a number of significant contributions to identified gaps in the currently available literature on time use. The research design allowed for the collection of close grained data and the investigation of questions of community engagement, social-capital, quality of life and should therefore enable more informed policy decisions relating to farm households.
