SAFEGUARDING AMATEUR ATHLETES AN EXAMINATION OF PLAYER WELFARE AMONG SENIOR INTER-COUNTY GAELIC PLAYERS. RESEARCH SERIES NUMBER 99 December 2019

Following the publication of research into the commitments required of male Gaelic players to play senior inter-county, and knock-on effects of inter-county commitment (Kelly et al., 2018), the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) and Gaelic Players Association (GPA) established a working group to make an in-depth analysis of the report’s findings. One of the decisions taken by the working group was that further research was required to examine a range of issues that emerged from the original study. These included in particular: (i) the education and (ii) the professional career experiences of senior inter-county players, (iii) their engagement in risky behaviours (e.g. alcohol consumption), (iv) supplement usage, (v) players’ views on both provided and required supports, and (vi) what they would change about their experience of playing inter-county and the inter-county set-up

Doctor of Philosophy

dissertationLet Fp be the nite eld with p elements, let S be a nite nonempty set of inequivalent valuations on Fp(t), and let OS be the ring of S-integers. If Bn is the solvable, linear algebraic group of upper triangular matrices with determinant 1, then the solvable S-arithmetic group Bn(OS) has a nite-index subgroup with in nite-dimensional cohomology group in dimension jSj

BRINGING THE WAR HOME THE PATRIOTIC IMAGINATION IN SASKATOON, 1939-1942

In The American West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War, noted historian Gerald D. Nash argued that the war, more than any other event in the West\u27s history, completely altered that region.1 There is as yet no equivalent of Nash\u27s fine study for the Great Plains north of the forty-ninth parallel, or what Canadians call the prairies. 2 This gap notwithstanding, historians of western Canada have begun to explore at least one key aspect of Nash\u27s research: the war\u27s impact on cities. Since 1995 there have been three histories of urban centers in wartime: Red Deer (Alberta), Lethbridge (Alberta), and Regina (Saskatchewan).3 However, these previous studies pay insufficient attention to the impact of patriotism, a curious omission given how frequently both government officials and ordinary citizens used their love of country as a rallying cry. In this article I focus on Saskatoon, whose 43,027 inhabitants made it Saskatchewan\u27s second-largest city, and examine the way in which patriotism was nourished in the collective mind by several war-related events in the city.4 Through what may be called the patriotic imagination, the war was made intense and immediate to prairie dwellers far removed from its conflict zones.

Working for A Living: A Comparison of the Public Assistance and Employment and Training Programs of Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States

In industrial democracies, creating conditions of social justice depends on just welfare state institutions. This paper compares how three models of the democratic welfare state, in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden, attempt meet the demands of justice through public assistance and employment and training programs that provide for a well-trained labor force. The paper compares each state\u27s public assistance and employment and training programs, the historical and political developments of each system, and each program\u27s successes and failures. It examines the present situations in each country and the likelihood of future changes. Understanding the political constraints of each country, recommendations, based on the examples of the other structures, are put forward for each state

Founding Practice: Examining Intercollegiate Competition as Assessment

Intercollegiate forensics is, at its core, a form of teaching. Like other pedagogical elements within higher education, the practice is now, and will increasingly be, subject to institutional assessment requirements in higher education. The conventional argument that the evaluation processes inherent in intercollegiate forensics competition will demonstrate the effectiveness of teaching and learning in forensics pedagogy is false. The assessment practices within the frame-work of competitions are part of the teaching processes. Forensics pedagogy, therefore, must align itself with institutional assessment components. This essay argues for the roots of that alignment to be tied to an academic learning compact that seeks to meet the requirements of institutional assessment and clarify the focus of the collection of scholars, educators and students that comprise the intercollegiate forensics community

Francis Hollis Fay (1927-1994)

This obituary honours the achievements of Francis H. Fay (Bud) who was a distinguished marine mammalogist, a dedicated scholar, and a man of unwavering integrity who inspired colleagues, students, and friends. Bud's life was dedicated to the study of the life history of the Pacific walrus. This study commenced on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, where his teachers, especially Charles and Vernon Slwooko, taught him a great deal about walrus ecology, while providing him with specimens he used to describe the reproduction, growth, and anatomy of Pacific Walruses, thus relying on, and recognizing the importance of, indigenous knowledge. In 1982 Bud published his monograph on walruses, Ecology and Biology of the Pacific Walrus, Odobenus rosmarus". The book was a masterful piece of scholarship and reflected not only years of hard work but also Bud's painstaking attention to detail. He did not stop there, however, and he continued to investigate walrus taxonomy, population biology, and ecology right up until the time of his death. His relentless search for knowledge of walruses led him to the Russian literature, and over the years he and Barbara carefully over 120 scientific articles from Russian into English. ... Bud was dedicated to international cooperation in research and management, as demonstrated by the enthusiasm with which he shared his translations of Russian literature and by his early and continuous activity as a member of the Steering-Planning Committee of the Marine Mammal Project under the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Agreement on Environmental Protection." ... [His passion for research, his editing, and his humor are greatly missed.

Maintaining and Enhancing Institutional Relevance: Long-term Program Sustainability in an Era of Increased Intra-Institutional Competition for Resources

The preservation and growth of intercollegiate forensic programs does not, and should not, depend on the singular factor of competitive results. The value of a program is rooted, in great part, in intra-institutional factors. This paper puts forth an assertion related to increasing the institutional value of forensics programs. Emphasis is placed on expanding the scope of the program goals and framing the success of a program on a non-competitive basis. The intra-institutional framing of program identity as centers of excellence functions as a central tenet

A city reborn : patriotism in Saskatoon during the Second World War

In the last decade historians have focused greater attention on the Canadian home front during the Second World War. This increased scrutiny has led to studies of not only the war’s impact on the nation at large, but also on specific urban communities. A weakness in all of these urban accounts, however, is that patriotism is too often taken for granted. An examination of Saskatoon between 1939 and 1945 provides a case study for how patriotism was fostered in a community thousands of kilometers away from the battlefield. Of particular interest here were the ways in which Saskatoon’s collective imagination, stifled for nearly a decade by the Great Depression, nourished the city’s patriotic zeal. Patriotism is considered from three main perspectives. The ways in which Saskatoon re-created at home the war “over there” are examined first. Instrumental to this endeavour were a deep and sympathetic interest in England’s weathering of the Nazi Blitz, a fear that the Germans might attack North America, and an idolization of the Canadian soldier, both abroad and in the city’s own midst. Secondly, Saskatoon’s vicarious experience of the Second World War in turn energized the countless patriotic initiatives in the city. Saskatonians, from women to the smallest children, were encouraged to “do their bit” to contribute to the war effort on the home front. Finally, there was also a darker side to the patriotic imagination: a disturbing xenophobia dominated Saskatoon during the war years. People of German and Japanese ancestry, as well as those on the left of the political spectrum, were suspected of being fifth columnists. Using the Star-Phoenix newspaper as a mirror of the community, this thesis provides new insight into patriotism, Saskatoon, and the Second World War