Bryan Boyle
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bryan Boyle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bryan |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyle |
| SIGNATURE | BOYLE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9630-7415 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Twenty‐First Century Butlers and the New Spirit of Service
More than 50 years ago, Lewis Coser argued that the “servant” had become obsolete, claiming that such a “premodern” occupation could not function within modernity without religious legitimations. However, with parts of the contemporary service sector exhibiting the very characteristics that Coser viewed as “premodern”—especially within services to wealthy elites—there is reason to review Coser's thesis. In this paper, I do just that through the c…
Techniques of non-personship
Elite milieux contain a fundamental tension: between, on the one hand, the impetus of elites to exclude non-elite bodies from their spaces to maintain exclusivity, and, on the other, allowing non-elite bodies into their spaces to carry out the labour they depend on. This paper explores how this tension is managed by service workers themselves through the practice of ‘non-personship’, a labour craft component oriented towards procuring social dist…
Exploring with children, play in Irish primary schoolyards
Children’s play in Irish schoolyards remains neglected in educational policies and practices despite government commitments to inclusive schools and children’s rights. There is a dearth of research on children’s perspectives of play, criticisms of ‘at risk’ discourses underpinning concerns for certain children’s play rights, and studies identifying exclusion within Irish schoolyards, particularly for children with minoritized identities. This inq…
Acts of loyalty
Designing public playgrounds for inclusion
Universal Design (UD) is promoted internationally for the design of public playgrounds that support outdoor play, social participation, and inclusion. Despite this international recognition of UD, there is a lack of research evidence concerning the applicability of UD for playground design. Instead, municipalities need to rely on best practice guidelines to inform the design of public playgrounds for inclusion. Internationally, numerous grey lite…
The Inclusion of Children on the Autism Spectrum in the Design of Learning Technologies
This research explores the inclusion of children on the autism spectrum in the design of educational technology from the perspectives of adult co-designers. A group of five non-verbal children with a diagnosis of autism participated in a series of four design workshops over the course of 6 weeks. Using a participatory design approach, a small team of three teachers and two technology developers worked alongside the children to design a language d…
A national study of playground professionals universal design implementation practices
Globally, Universal Design (UD) is promoted as an evidence-informed approach for planning and designing accessible and inclusive public playgrounds, which are valuable sites for outdoor play in child-friendly cities. However, it remains unclear the extent to which UD has been implemented in public playgrounds. The purpose of this study was to explore the extent to which UD is implemented, from the perspectives of playground professionals in the R…
From migrant to settler and the making of a Black community
Using autoethnography as the research tool, this paper explores the formation and evolution of a Black community identity in the austerity phase of Britain in the 1970s. Focusing on one life, it examines this period of intense social upheaval when Caribbean people in Britain were moving from migrants to settlers. Central to that Diasporic shift were Black women who were beginning to set and direct a Black agenda for collective survival to meet ba…
Aesthetic labour, class and taste
Previous research has shown how the embodied performances expected from service workers make cultural class background important for entry into these forms of jobs. However, class judgement continues to impact the worker post-entry and on-the-job. We explore this through a qualitative study of 18 middle-class women working in luxury-retail stores in Amsterdam, asking how they acquire the taste of their store for aesthetic labour. This is a case w…
Language and Literacy in a Creole-speaking Environment
Jamaica is a Creole-speaking environment, where children enter school with a range of varieties, some of which are closely related to English. The expectation is that they will learn English in school. The appropriate language teaching approach, it is argued, is not English as a mother tongue, English as a Second Language or English as a Foreign Language. The paper explores the most appropriate principles and practice for this setting, based on a…
Jamaican Creole
Questions of attitudes and identity are foregrounded in this discussion of Jamaican Creole [JC] as a language of the diaspora. It is presented as a language that challenges the standardizing impulses of modernity, resisting homogeneity in a variable and multi-layered process of change. The article follows the evolutionary path of the language through Africa and the Caribbean to London and America and shows how its speakers see, use and connect th…
Aesthetic labour, class and taste
Previous research has shown how the embodied performances expected from service workers make cultural class background important for entry into these forms of jobs. However, class judgement continues to impact the worker post-entry and on-the-job. We explore this through a qualitative study of 18 middle-class women working in luxury-retail stores in Amsterdam, asking how they acquire the taste of their store for aesthetic labour. This is a case w…
Jamaican Creole
Questions of attitudes and identity are foregrounded in this discussion of Jamaican Creole [JC] as a language of the diaspora. It is presented as a language that challenges the standardizing impulses of modernity, resisting homogeneity in a variable and multi-layered process of change. The article follows the evolutionary path of the language through Africa and the Caribbean to London and America and shows how its speakers see, use and connect th…
Language and Literacy in a Creole-speaking Environment
Jamaica is a Creole-speaking environment, where children enter school with a range of varieties, some of which are closely related to English. The expectation is that they will learn English in school. The appropriate language teaching approach, it is argued, is not English as a mother tongue, English as a Second Language or English as a Foreign Language. The paper explores the most appropriate principles and practice for this setting, based on a…
A national study of playground professionals universal design implementation practices
Globally, Universal Design (UD) is promoted as an evidence-informed approach for planning and designing accessible and inclusive public playgrounds, which are valuable sites for outdoor play in child-friendly cities. However, it remains unclear the extent to which UD has been implemented in public playgrounds. The purpose of this study was to explore the extent to which UD is implemented, from the perspectives of playground professionals in the R…
From migrant to settler and the making of a Black community
Using autoethnography as the research tool, this paper explores the formation and evolution of a Black community identity in the austerity phase of Britain in the 1970s. Focusing on one life, it examines this period of intense social upheaval when Caribbean people in Britain were moving from migrants to settlers. Central to that Diasporic shift were Black women who were beginning to set and direct a Black agenda for collective survival to meet ba…
Language and Literacy in a Creole-speaking Environment
Jamaica is a Creole-speaking environment, where children enter school with a range of varieties, some of which are closely related to English. The expectation is that they will learn English in school. The appropriate language teaching approach, it is argued, is not English as a mother tongue, English as a Second Language or English as a Foreign Language. The paper explores the most appropriate principles and practice for this setting, based on a…
Jamaican Creole
Questions of attitudes and identity are foregrounded in this discussion of Jamaican Creole [JC] as a language of the diaspora. It is presented as a language that challenges the standardizing impulses of modernity, resisting homogeneity in a variable and multi-layered process of change. The article follows the evolutionary path of the language through Africa and the Caribbean to London and America and shows how its speakers see, use and connect th…
Aesthetic labour, class and taste
Previous research has shown how the embodied performances expected from service workers make cultural class background important for entry into these forms of jobs. However, class judgement continues to impact the worker post-entry and on-the-job. We explore this through a qualitative study of 18 middle-class women working in luxury-retail stores in Amsterdam, asking how they acquire the taste of their store for aesthetic labour. This is a case w…
From migrant to settler and the making of a Black community
Using autoethnography as the research tool, this paper explores the formation and evolution of a Black community identity in the austerity phase of Britain in the 1970s. Focusing on one life, it examines this period of intense social upheaval when Caribbean people in Britain were moving from migrants to settlers. Central to that Diasporic shift were Black women who were beginning to set and direct a Black agenda for collective survival to meet ba…
The Inclusion of Children on the Autism Spectrum in the Design of Learning Technologies
This research explores the inclusion of children on the autism spectrum in the design of educational technology from the perspectives of adult co-designers. A group of five non-verbal children with a diagnosis of autism participated in a series of four design workshops over the course of 6 weeks. Using a participatory design approach, a small team of three teachers and two technology developers worked alongside the children to design a language d…
A national study of playground professionals universal design implementation practices
Globally, Universal Design (UD) is promoted as an evidence-informed approach for planning and designing accessible and inclusive public playgrounds, which are valuable sites for outdoor play in child-friendly cities. However, it remains unclear the extent to which UD has been implemented in public playgrounds. The purpose of this study was to explore the extent to which UD is implemented, from the perspectives of playground professionals in the R…
Acts of loyalty
Designing public playgrounds for inclusion
Universal Design (UD) is promoted internationally for the design of public playgrounds that support outdoor play, social participation, and inclusion. Despite this international recognition of UD, there is a lack of research evidence concerning the applicability of UD for playground design. Instead, municipalities need to rely on best practice guidelines to inform the design of public playgrounds for inclusion. Internationally, numerous grey lite…
Exploring with children, play in Irish primary schoolyards
Children’s play in Irish schoolyards remains neglected in educational policies and practices despite government commitments to inclusive schools and children’s rights. There is a dearth of research on children’s perspectives of play, criticisms of ‘at risk’ discourses underpinning concerns for certain children’s play rights, and studies identifying exclusion within Irish schoolyards, particularly for children with minoritized identities. This inq…
Twenty‐First Century Butlers and the New Spirit of Service
More than 50 years ago, Lewis Coser argued that the “servant” had become obsolete, claiming that such a “premodern” occupation could not function within modernity without religious legitimations. However, with parts of the contemporary service sector exhibiting the very characteristics that Coser viewed as “premodern”—especially within services to wealthy elites—there is reason to review Coser's thesis. In this paper, I do just that through the c…
Techniques of non-personship
Elite milieux contain a fundamental tension: between, on the one hand, the impetus of elites to exclude non-elite bodies from their spaces to maintain exclusivity, and, on the other, allowing non-elite bodies into their spaces to carry out the labour they depend on. This paper explores how this tension is managed by service workers themselves through the practice of ‘non-personship’, a labour craft component oriented towards procuring social dist…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Universal design (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)