David C Cairns
Biographic Data
| ID | 3080113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David C Cairns |
| GIVEN NAMES | David C |
| FAMILY NAME | Cairns |
| SIGNATURE | CAIRNS D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7404-9232 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 201 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
‘It's not a permanent thing’: Projectification and precarity in higher education research careers
This article addresses the topic of working as a researcher in higher education, recognising the importance of fixed-term employment episodes in constructing a career via a ‘project-to-project’ dynamic. Focusing on the example of Portugal, I argue that this approach can be interpreted as a form of projectification, but one that generates precarity beyond the early career stage through reliance on continual success in state-supported funding compe…
Moving Beyond Adjunctification in Portugal’s Universities: Research and Development Unit Directors’ Perspectives
Becoming a Digital Citizen in Estonia? New Migrants' Interpretations of their Digital Participation
Anti-Trafficking Professionals and Institutionalized Violence in Spain: An Exploratory Study
In recent decades, an anti-trafficking legislative and policy framework has been developed in Spain, coupled with the funding of initiatives related to the protection of trafficked persons, especially women, largely carried out by faith-based and secular organizations. Using 25 interviews conducted with people employed in programmes targeting trafficked women in the Autonomous Community of Madrid, this article provides deeper exploration of this …
You’re working, but you’re not working: ’ Academic Precarity, Ambivalence and the Use of Researchers as Factotums
This article explores an important aspect of academic precarity: the use of fixed-term contract researchers as factotums within universities. The practice can be defined as the taking-on of tasks that are outside of core research activities, including substantial amounts of time spent teaching, supervising students and preparing research proposals, often at the behest of tenured staff members, reflecting existing power dynamics within the organis…
‘There was no freedom to leave’: Global South international students in Portugal during the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international students, focusing on Portuguese-speaking African and Brazilian students during the lockdown of spring 2020. Using evidence from interviews conducted with 27 students domiciled in Portugal, we illustrate some of the challenges faced by students when coping with the pandemic, including difficulties in meeting the cost of tertiary education and the centrality of working to s…
“You’re Better Being Poor Here”: Migration Decision-Making and Political and Lifestyle Considerations Among Qualified Brazilians in Portugal
This article looks at the migration of qualified Brazilians to Portugal, with reference to the impact of political developments in Brazil on migration decision-making processes and their lifestyle aspirations in the host society. Original fieldwork consists of twenty in-depth interviews conducted with qualified Brazilians in the Lisbon area during 2019. These interviews illustrate how political and economic instability in Brazil contributed to es…
The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Mobility and Educational Migration
Managing Student Mobility during the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Immobility Turn in Internationalized Learning
This article looked at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the management of internationalized learning, and the disruption to the transitions to adulthood among students reliant upon the freedom to move within and between countries. We started by outlining the place of mobility in transitions, connected to debates about the ‘Mobility Turn,’ with particular relevance to developments in the European context, including the expansion of successiv…
The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Mobility and Educational Migration
Immobility, precarity and the Covid-19 pandemic: The impact of lockdown on international students in Portugal
This article looks at the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic among international students in Portugal, focusing on their experiences during the Spring 2020 lockdown. The discussion begins with an outline of the research context, and recognition of the inherent precarity of much international student life. Our research questions hence look not only at the immediate impact of the pandemic on internationalised learning but also the heightening of pre-e…
Lisbon, the Portuguese Erasmus city? Mis-match between representation in urban policies and international student experiences
This article looks at the mis-match between official discursive representations aimed at promoting Lisbon, the Portuguese capital city, as an international student hub and international students’ experiences. At a theoretical level, our work builds on the idea that re-branding a city’s image in terms of creativity, innovation and new technologies with a view to attract international students can foster less positive urban changes linked to gentri…
An immobility turn? The Covid-19 pandemic, mobility capital and international students in Portugal
Corporeal travel has been highly problematized during the Covid-19 pandemic, leading to the curtailment of many previously taken-for-granted mobilities. This includes the circulation of international students; individuals undertaking short duration credit mobility exchanges alongside those who have migrated for an entire degree course. The objective of this article is to look at how the pandemic has affected credit and degree mobility students fr…
South-South student migration: Socially integrating students from Portuguese-speaking Africa at Unilab, Brazil
The Brazilian University for International Integration of the Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (UNILAB) was created to host students from Portuguese-speaking Africa and Brazil. In this article, we look at the aims and objectives of UNILAB, which include the social integration of these students at the university. We present results from interviews conducted at UNILAB in 2018 with 63 international and domestic students. We consider what these findings mean…
Mobile moratorium? The case of young people undertaking international internships
This article explores a significant yet curiously understudied form of transnational mobility as practiced by the highly qualified in Europe, namely the international internship. We argue that an international internship can be an ambivalent stage within youth transitions. While possibly providing a potential point of entry into a ‘dream’ career path, the economic and emotional costs of such undertakings also need to be accounted for, including a…
Home or Away? Pathways to Employment for the Highly Qualified in Armenia After the Velvet Revolution
In this article, we take a look at transitions to employment in Armenia for the highly qualified, focusing on students and graduates. Theoretically, we acknowledge the importance of insights from prior research, including the idea of the transition-to-work as a journey, with our research questions aimed at highlighting specific challenges facing Armenian youth following spatialized and sedentary transition pathways; moving abroad for work and ent…
The Erasmus undergraduate exchange programme: A highly qualified success story
Erasmus is regarded as a European success story: an example of cross-border cooperation and an opportunity for students to improve their inter-cultural skills and work capacities. This article takes an in-depth look at this success, examining recent trends in Erasmus mobility. Analysis shows that while certain countries have greater numbers of students outgoing than incoming, the converse situation is found in countries such as Portugal. To expla…
Hai Gui or Hai Dai? Chinese Student Migrants and the Role of Norwegian Mobility Capital in Career Success
In this article, we look at an example of student migration between Asia and Europe: movement between China and Norway, with the main objective of illustrating the value of studying in Norway to career development upon return to the sending country. Adapting terminology associated with Bourdieu, we discuss this experience as ‘mobility capital’, exploring the value of skills and capacities acquired while abroad in career success. Evidence is drawn…
South-South educational migration, humanitarianism and development
South-South educational migration, humanitarianism and development." Social & Cultural Geography, 18(5), pp. 736–737
Exploring student mobility and graduate migration: Undergraduate Mobility Propensities in Two Economic Crisis Contexts
This article explores the issue of mobility propensity among undergraduates, focusing on plans for long-term and short-term movement, including migration after the completion of present course of study. We also assess the strength of the relationship between a decision to move abroad and the personal impact of the ongoing economic crisis, using evidence from two recent surveys conducted with students in the capital cities of Portugal and the Repu…
The Consequences of Mobility
This book explores various forms of highly skilled mobility in the European Union, assessing the potential for this movement to contribute to individual and societal development. In doing so, the authors illustrate some of the issues arising from the opening up of Europe’s borders, and exposing its education systems and labour markets to international competition. While acknowledging the potentially positive aspects of mobility, they also reveal …
Migration and tertiary educated youth: A reflexive view of mobility decision-making in an economic crisis context
Despite the popularity of student and graduate migration as research topics, mobility decision-making among tertiary educated youth is relatively neglected, resulting in under-appreciation of the complexity of this process. This article seeks to overcome this shortcoming through taking a reflexive view, recognising the significance of personal considerations alongside economic motives as potential mobility drivers. Evidence is drawn from a survey…
Youth, precarity and the future: Undergraduate housing transitions in Portugal during the economic crisis
This article examines the housing transitions of young people studying at universities in Lisbon, Portugal. With Portuguese youth already staying within the parental home for prolonged periods, the present discussion asks if the economic crisis is likely to make a further impact upon the housing behaviour of respondents. Issues explored include housing decision-making, involvement in domestic tasks and support received from parents. The results c…
International student mobility in crisis? Understanding post-diploma mobility decision-making in an economic crisis context
This article examines student mobility in Portugal, with the aim of understanding what prompts the decision to leave, with particular emphasis upon the weight of factors associated with the on-going economic crisis. Findings from a survey of 400 Lisbon students conducted during 2014 are used to demonstrate the popularity of the idea of moving abroad after the completion of present course of study, with 35% indicating an intention to leave Portuga…
Youth Transitions, International Student Mobility and Spatial Reflexivity: Being Mobile?
Drawing on comparative country case studies, this book explores student mobility in Europe, incorporating original theoretical perspectives to explain how mobility happens and new empirical evidence t
I wouldn’t mind moving actually: Exploring Student Mobility in Northern Ireland
This article examines orientations towards future geographical mobility amongst young people in Northern Ireland presently studying at third level educational institutions. Following contextualisation of youth mobility as pertaining to students in this region, the results of recent quantitative and qualitative research are discussed. Over half of these young people, 55 per cent, see themselves living outside Northern Ireland at some point in the …
I Wouldn't Stay Here”: Economic Crisis and Youth Mobility in Ireland
In this paper, I explore an important aspect of Irish youth migration, in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, namely the mobility intentions of tertiary‐educated youth during the recent economic crisis. Building on prior work that I completed in 2007, I conducted quantitative and qualitative research with a total of 400 university students in Dublin, Belfast and Cork during 2010. Analysis of the data reveals that the majority of th…
Another ‘Missing Middle’? The marginalised majority of tertiary-educated youth in Portugal during the economic crisis
This article explores the present and imagined future impact of the Portuguese economic crisis among tertiary-educated youth in Lisbon. The results of a quantitative survey and follow-up interviews illustrate that this impact is widespread and multifaceted, ranging from a perceived devaluation of educational credentials and a loss of faith in the local job market to feeling unable to contemplate having a family of one’s own. This evidence suggest…
The object of sectarianism: The material reality of sectarianism in Ulster Loyalism
This article examines an important, and neglected, aspect of sectarianism in contemporary Northern Ireland: its embodiment in the material culture and everyday social practices of its antagonistic factions. Following a brief theoretical outline of sectarianism (characterized as a discursive formation), I describe this phenomenon as found in an Ulster loyalist community. I show how the material reality of sectarianism encompasses the everyday acti…
Hai Gui or Hai Dai? Chinese Student Migrants and the Role of Norwegian Mobility Capital in Career Success
In this article, we look at an example of student migration between Asia and Europe: movement between China and Norway, with the main objective of illustrating the value of studying in Norway to career development upon return to the sending country. Adapting terminology associated with Bourdieu, we discuss this experience as ‘mobility capital’, exploring the value of skills and capacities acquired while abroad in career success. Evidence is drawn…
Moving in transition: Northern Ireland youth and geographical mobility
This article explores the geographical mobility of young people in Northern Ireland. Utilizing the results of recent empirical research conducted with a sample of university students drawn from four different academic disciplines, an overview is presented of mobility experiences in terms of where these young people are going, their main reasons for travel and the main characteristics of mobile youth. Indications of future mobility intentions are …
An immobility turn? The Covid-19 pandemic, mobility capital and international students in Portugal
Corporeal travel has been highly problematized during the Covid-19 pandemic, leading to the curtailment of many previously taken-for-granted mobilities. This includes the circulation of international students; individuals undertaking short duration credit mobility exchanges alongside those who have migrated for an entire degree course. The objective of this article is to look at how the pandemic has affected credit and degree mobility students fr…
The Consequences of Mobility
This book explores various forms of highly skilled mobility in the European Union, assessing the potential for this movement to contribute to individual and societal development. In doing so, the authors illustrate some of the issues arising from the opening up of Europe’s borders, and exposing its education systems and labour markets to international competition. While acknowledging the potentially positive aspects of mobility, they also reveal …
Immobility, precarity and the Covid-19 pandemic: The impact of lockdown on international students in Portugal
This article looks at the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic among international students in Portugal, focusing on their experiences during the Spring 2020 lockdown. The discussion begins with an outline of the research context, and recognition of the inherent precarity of much international student life. Our research questions hence look not only at the immediate impact of the pandemic on internationalised learning but also the heightening of pre-e…
Exploring student mobility and graduate migration: Undergraduate Mobility Propensities in Two Economic Crisis Contexts
This article explores the issue of mobility propensity among undergraduates, focusing on plans for long-term and short-term movement, including migration after the completion of present course of study. We also assess the strength of the relationship between a decision to move abroad and the personal impact of the ongoing economic crisis, using evidence from two recent surveys conducted with students in the capital cities of Portugal and the Repu…
Leaving Northern Ireland: Youth mobility field, habitus and recession among undergraduates in Belfast
This article explores the dichotomy between the high prevalence and low incidence of youth mobility intentions, utilising the results of quantitative and qualitative research conducted with 400 students during 2010 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Comparisons with results from a prior study on student mobility also show that the recent recession had made relatively little impact upon the prevalence of mobility intentions. Following a theoretical per…
Migration and tertiary educated youth: A reflexive view of mobility decision-making in an economic crisis context
Despite the popularity of student and graduate migration as research topics, mobility decision-making among tertiary educated youth is relatively neglected, resulting in under-appreciation of the complexity of this process. This article seeks to overcome this shortcoming through taking a reflexive view, recognising the significance of personal considerations alongside economic motives as potential mobility drivers. Evidence is drawn from a survey…
Mobile moratorium? The case of young people undertaking international internships
This article explores a significant yet curiously understudied form of transnational mobility as practiced by the highly qualified in Europe, namely the international internship. We argue that an international internship can be an ambivalent stage within youth transitions. While possibly providing a potential point of entry into a ‘dream’ career path, the economic and emotional costs of such undertakings also need to be accounted for, including a…
Spatial reflexivity and undergraduate transitions in the Republic of Ireland after the Celtic Tiger
This article explores the geographical mobility intentions of students aged between 18 and 24 years in the Republic of Ireland after the end of the economic boom commonly referred to as the ‘Celtic Tiger’. Focusing upon a sample of undergraduates in Dublin and Cork, the article looks at how many respondents intend to move abroad in the future, where the potential leavers intend to go and for how long they envisage staying away, in addition to ela…
Rediscovering Democratic Purpose in British Local Government
This article examines the weak condition of local democracy in Britain against the background of successive reorganisations which have vitiated public support for local government by subordinating democratic purpose to perceived functional requirements. If the new structures are not to reinforce this vicious circle, local government must advance beyond the orthodox, top-down, view of the problem as ‘centralism’ and address its own failure to buil…
Up off our Bellies and onto our Knees: Symbolic Effacement and the Orange Order in Northern Ireland
South-South student migration: Socially integrating students from Portuguese-speaking Africa at Unilab, Brazil
The Brazilian University for International Integration of the Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (UNILAB) was created to host students from Portuguese-speaking Africa and Brazil. In this article, we look at the aims and objectives of UNILAB, which include the social integration of these students at the university. We present results from interviews conducted at UNILAB in 2018 with 63 international and domestic students. We consider what these findings mean…
The Erasmus undergraduate exchange programme: A highly qualified success story
Erasmus is regarded as a European success story: an example of cross-border cooperation and an opportunity for students to improve their inter-cultural skills and work capacities. This article takes an in-depth look at this success, examining recent trends in Erasmus mobility. Analysis shows that while certain countries have greater numbers of students outgoing than incoming, the converse situation is found in countries such as Portugal. To expla…
Youth, precarity and the future: Undergraduate housing transitions in Portugal during the economic crisis
This article examines the housing transitions of young people studying at universities in Lisbon, Portugal. With Portuguese youth already staying within the parental home for prolonged periods, the present discussion asks if the economic crisis is likely to make a further impact upon the housing behaviour of respondents. Issues explored include housing decision-making, involvement in domestic tasks and support received from parents. The results c…
Becoming a Digital Citizen in Estonia? New Migrants' Interpretations of their Digital Participation
Lisbon, the Portuguese Erasmus city? Mis-match between representation in urban policies and international student experiences
This article looks at the mis-match between official discursive representations aimed at promoting Lisbon, the Portuguese capital city, as an international student hub and international students’ experiences. At a theoretical level, our work builds on the idea that re-branding a city’s image in terms of creativity, innovation and new technologies with a view to attract international students can foster less positive urban changes linked to gentri…
International student mobility in crisis? Understanding post-diploma mobility decision-making in an economic crisis context
This article examines student mobility in Portugal, with the aim of understanding what prompts the decision to leave, with particular emphasis upon the weight of factors associated with the on-going economic crisis. Findings from a survey of 400 Lisbon students conducted during 2014 are used to demonstrate the popularity of the idea of moving abroad after the completion of present course of study, with 35% indicating an intention to leave Portuga…
Representing Islam and Lisbon Youth: Portuguese Muslims of Indian-Mozambican origin
While recent immigration from Muslim countries contributes to the diversification of Muslim life in Portugal, postcolonial people of Indian-Mozambican background continue playing a key role Islamic associational work. One example is the Youth Association of the Islamic Community (CilJovem) in Lisbon. Since September 11, its members are frequently asked to speak about Islam-related issues in the Portuguese media. Islam and Muslim-ness are importan…
Jovens europeus: Retrato da diversidade
Este artigo explora as transições para a vida adulta de jovens de várias regiões européias a partir de dados de uma pesquisa recente, baseada em um questionário. Para isso aplicaram-se análises tipológicas e fatoriais: das primeiras emergiram cinco grupos, tipificando distintas transições, orientações atitudinais e sociografias juvenis; das segundas resultaram contrastes fatoriais que evidenciam diferentes modalidades de transição. Essas análises…
Moving the immovable: Discursive challenge and discursive change in Ulster loyalism
This article examines Ulster loyalist discourse and its changeable nature, arguing that recent challenges to Orangeism from Irish nationalists and the loosening of the traditional alliance between Orangeism and the forces of law and order have necessitated the incorporation of a new narrative, which seeks to justify Orangeism on grounds that it is ‘traditional’ and must therefore be granted an unchallenged ‘right to march’ wherever and whenever i…
The Image of God in Man
An Essay in Christian Philosophy
Book Reviews Get access An Essay in Christian Philosophy. By Jacques Maritain. Translated by Fr. E. H. Flannery. (New York : Philosophical Library. 1955. Pp. xi + 116. Price $2.75). David Cairns David Cairns Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 6, Issue 25, October 1956, Pages 377–378, https://doi.org/10.2307/2216798 Published: 01 October 1956
Berlioz and Criticism: Some Surviving Dodos
Edinburgh Festival
Berlioz
The Rich Christians and Poor Lazarus
Berlioz Complete
Berlioz
Dido and Aeneas
A Reappraisal of Bultmann's Theology
Twenty years ago the theology of Rudolf Bultmann was one of the central points in theological discussion. Today the attention of theologians has moved elsewhere. Yet an attempt to assess Bultmann provisionally today may not be out of place, and the following essay is offered as a contribution to that assessment, in the hope that either alone, or together with other reappraisals and criticisms it may be useful. It is the result of a continuing per…
Writing Ireland: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Culture
A provocative and wide-ranging examination of culture, literature, and identity in nineteenth and twentieth century Ireland
Appendix E: The Spectator Correspondence
Hedley V. Cooke, Jon Kimche, Erskine B. Childers, Walid Khalidi, Edward Atiyah, David Cairns, Appendix E: The Spectator Correspondence, Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 18, No. 1, Special Issue: Palestine 1948 (Autumn, 1988), pp. 51-70
In search of racial equality: Indirect discrimination and equal opportunities 12 years on
Recent Irish Histories
Recent Irish Histories Get access David Cairns David Cairns Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 31, Issue 1, SPRING 1991, Pages 156–162, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/31.1.156 Published: 01 March 1991
Social representations and group membership: Shared and diffused parental ideas in three Israeli settings
The study investigates how the characteristics of subgroups within a culture are related to the structure of parental ideas held by their members. Two subsets of social representations were suggested—shared parental ideas (SPI) which are largely common to members of a group and serve the goals of individuals as group members as well as the goals of the group itself, and—diffused parental ideas (DPI) which are dispersed within social groups, and a…
Rediscovering Democratic Purpose in British Local Government
This article examines the weak condition of local democracy in Britain against the background of successive reorganisations which have vitiated public support for local government by subordinating democratic purpose to perceived functional requirements. If the new structures are not to reinforce this vicious circle, local government must advance beyond the orthodox, top-down, view of the problem as ‘centralism’ and address its own failure to buil…
The future shape of harmonization: A reply
(1997). The future shape of harmonization: a reply. European Accounting Review: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 305-348
The future shape of harmonization: A reply
The object of sectarianism: The material reality of sectarianism in Ulster Loyalism
This article examines an important, and neglected, aspect of sectarianism in contemporary Northern Ireland: its embodiment in the material culture and everyday social practices of its antagonistic factions. Following a brief theoretical outline of sectarianism (characterized as a discursive formation), I describe this phenomenon as found in an Ulster loyalist community. I show how the material reality of sectarianism encompasses the everyday acti…
Toscanini, Arturo
Furtwängler, (Gustav Heinrich Ernst Martin) Wilhelm
25.1.1886 Berlin, † 30.11.1954 Ebersteinburg/D. Dirigent und Komponist.
Moving the immovable: Discursive challenge and discursive change in Ulster loyalism
This article examines Ulster loyalist discourse and its changeable nature, arguing that recent challenges to Orangeism from Irish nationalists and the loosening of the traditional alliance between Orangeism and the forces of law and order have necessitated the incorporation of a new narrative, which seeks to justify Orangeism on grounds that it is ‘traditional’ and must therefore be granted an unchallenged ‘right to march’ wherever and whenever i…
Up off our Bellies and onto our Knees: Symbolic Effacement and the Orange Order in Northern Ireland
Jovens europeus: Retrato da diversidade
Este artigo explora as transições para a vida adulta de jovens de várias regiões européias a partir de dados de uma pesquisa recente, baseada em um questionário. Para isso aplicaram-se análises tipológicas e fatoriais: das primeiras emergiram cinco grupos, tipificando distintas transições, orientações atitudinais e sociografias juvenis; das segundas resultaram contrastes fatoriais que evidenciam diferentes modalidades de transição. Essas análises…
Representing Islam and Lisbon Youth: Portuguese Muslims of Indian-Mozambican origin
While recent immigration from Muslim countries contributes to the diversification of Muslim life in Portugal, postcolonial people of Indian-Mozambican background continue playing a key role Islamic associational work. One example is the Youth Association of the Islamic Community (CilJovem) in Lisbon. Since September 11, its members are frequently asked to speak about Islam-related issues in the Portuguese media. Islam and Muslim-ness are importan…
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