Lisa Keenan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4097835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Keenan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Keenan |
| SIGNATURE | KEENAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6950-5355 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The study of Irish politics: Lessons from Michael Gallagher
For over forty years, Michael Gallagher has been one of the most formidable voices in the study of Irish politics. A member of Trinity College’s Department of Political Science from 1979 to 2021, Gallagher taught Irish politics to generations of undergraduate and postgraduate students. A past president of the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI), he contributed to that association’s efforts to introduce up-to-date research methods and …
The case for feminist electoral geography
Knowledge of autism and attitudes towards inclusive education for autistic pupils: A representative survey of school communities in Ireland
Autistic pupils have the right to access a quality education and be fully included in mainstream educational settings. This study aimed to measure knowledge of autism and attitudes towards the inclusion of autistic pupils in school communities across Ireland. An online survey was completed by parents, teaching staff and non-teaching staff (N = 661) from a representative sample of primary, post-primary, and special schools in Ireland, selected usi…
I Don’t Mind if You Ask Me: Methodological Insights From Conducting Inclusive Interviews With Autistic Students About Their School Experiences
In this study, we reflect on our experiences of planning for and implementing a large qualitative study of the lived experiences of autistic children and adolescents, a historically marginalised population. While there is a growing recognition of the need to amplify the voices of under-served populations, inclusive and participatory research is still rare, and even rarer with autistic children. Working within a neurodiversity paradigm, and drawin…
Violence against politicians in Ireland: What Does It Look Like and How Is It Gendered
Links between Daytime Napping, Night-Time Sleep Quality and Infant Attention: An Eye-Tracking, Actigraphy and Parent-Report Study
The current study explored the potential influence of infant sleep, measured by parental report and actigraphy, and family functioning on attention development using eye tracking. The use of actigraphy in parallel with parental report, has the advantage of measuring participant's sleep throughout the night without parental observation and the ability to objectively assess sleep quality. An eye-tracking version of the Gap-Overlap task was used to …
Who wants women to run? an investigation of gender differences in patterns of support among Irish local election candidates
Interventions aimed at increasing women’s numeric representation in politics tend to solve the problem by tackling a lack of demand among gatekeepers. However, even where there is an increase in demand, it is still important to consider what is happening on the supply-side; that is, the circumstances under which individuals will put themselves forward to run for office. One factor that has been identified as an important predictor of whether some…
An unfinished democracy’: Gender and political representation in the Republic of Ireland
Ireland’s Decade of Centenaries, beginning in 2012, has seen the commemoration of a period of significant social and political transformation. For scholars of gender and politics, it also provides the opportunity to take stock of women’s path to greater political representation (ultimately aided by the introduction of a candidate gender quota in 2016) and to highlight key areas where more work needs to be done in order to understand how women can…
Teachers’ experiences and understanding of executive functions in Irish primary school classrooms: Findings from a mixed-methods questionnaire
Executive functioning (EF) skills are crucial for young students to meet academic and social demands at school. EF skill development is particularly amenable to environmental influences in the early years. In classroom settings, teachers play a vital role in providing support to promote these skills. Research is limited regarding teachers’ understanding of EF domains and recognition of EF difficulties in students. Additionally, teachers’ experien…
Are Irish voters biased against female candidates? Evidence from the 2020 general election
Ireland is the first country in the world to apply a legislative gender quota under an STV electoral system. Since 2016, the quota has required parties to ensure that at least thirty percent of their candidates running in the general election are women. Due to the nature of the electoral system, namely that it is candidate-centred, the impact of the quota has the potential to be limited if voter bias is present among the electorate. While the ini…
The divorce referendum 2019
When Ireland removed the prohibition on divorce from its constitution in 1995 by way of a referendum, the result was achieved with a razor thin margin after a difficult campaign. The circumstances in which the 2019 referendum on divorce took place were very different. After the hotly contested marriage equality and abortion referendums, a proposal to liberalise the divorce regime by removing the paragraph relating to the mandatory separation peri…
Executive functioning in the classroom: Primary school teachers’ experiences of neuropsychological issues and reports
Who supports gender quotas in Ireland
Candidate gender quotas were passed into law in the Republic of Ireland in 2012. This paper examines support for this quota amongst three different groups: local election candidates, a sample of professionals and the general public. Using responses from three different datasets, we identify the key ideological, partisan and demographic predictors of support for the quota. We find that the best predictors of support for the quota are, not surprisi…
Who supports gender quotas in Ireland
Candidate gender quotas were passed into law in the Republic of Ireland in 2012. This paper examines support for this quota amongst three different groups: local election candidates, a sample of professionals and the general public. Using responses from three different datasets, we identify the key ideological, partisan and demographic predictors of support for the quota. We find that the best predictors of support for the quota are, not surprisi…
An unfinished democracy’: Gender and political representation in the Republic of Ireland
Ireland’s Decade of Centenaries, beginning in 2012, has seen the commemoration of a period of significant social and political transformation. For scholars of gender and politics, it also provides the opportunity to take stock of women’s path to greater political representation (ultimately aided by the introduction of a candidate gender quota in 2016) and to highlight key areas where more work needs to be done in order to understand how women can…
Are Irish voters biased against female candidates? Evidence from the 2020 general election
Ireland is the first country in the world to apply a legislative gender quota under an STV electoral system. Since 2016, the quota has required parties to ensure that at least thirty percent of their candidates running in the general election are women. Due to the nature of the electoral system, namely that it is candidate-centred, the impact of the quota has the potential to be limited if voter bias is present among the electorate. While the ini…
The divorce referendum 2019
When Ireland removed the prohibition on divorce from its constitution in 1995 by way of a referendum, the result was achieved with a razor thin margin after a difficult campaign. The circumstances in which the 2019 referendum on divorce took place were very different. After the hotly contested marriage equality and abortion referendums, a proposal to liberalise the divorce regime by removing the paragraph relating to the mandatory separation peri…
Who supports gender quotas in Ireland
Candidate gender quotas were passed into law in the Republic of Ireland in 2012. This paper examines support for this quota amongst three different groups: local election candidates, a sample of professionals and the general public. Using responses from three different datasets, we identify the key ideological, partisan and demographic predictors of support for the quota. We find that the best predictors of support for the quota are, not surprisi…
Executive functioning in the classroom: Primary school teachers’ experiences of neuropsychological issues and reports
The divorce referendum 2019
When Ireland removed the prohibition on divorce from its constitution in 1995 by way of a referendum, the result was achieved with a razor thin margin after a difficult campaign. The circumstances in which the 2019 referendum on divorce took place were very different. After the hotly contested marriage equality and abortion referendums, a proposal to liberalise the divorce regime by removing the paragraph relating to the mandatory separation peri…
Teachers’ experiences and understanding of executive functions in Irish primary school classrooms: Findings from a mixed-methods questionnaire
Executive functioning (EF) skills are crucial for young students to meet academic and social demands at school. EF skill development is particularly amenable to environmental influences in the early years. In classroom settings, teachers play a vital role in providing support to promote these skills. Research is limited regarding teachers’ understanding of EF domains and recognition of EF difficulties in students. Additionally, teachers’ experien…
Are Irish voters biased against female candidates? Evidence from the 2020 general election
Ireland is the first country in the world to apply a legislative gender quota under an STV electoral system. Since 2016, the quota has required parties to ensure that at least thirty percent of their candidates running in the general election are women. Due to the nature of the electoral system, namely that it is candidate-centred, the impact of the quota has the potential to be limited if voter bias is present among the electorate. While the ini…
Links between Daytime Napping, Night-Time Sleep Quality and Infant Attention: An Eye-Tracking, Actigraphy and Parent-Report Study
The current study explored the potential influence of infant sleep, measured by parental report and actigraphy, and family functioning on attention development using eye tracking. The use of actigraphy in parallel with parental report, has the advantage of measuring participant's sleep throughout the night without parental observation and the ability to objectively assess sleep quality. An eye-tracking version of the Gap-Overlap task was used to …
Who wants women to run? an investigation of gender differences in patterns of support among Irish local election candidates
Interventions aimed at increasing women’s numeric representation in politics tend to solve the problem by tackling a lack of demand among gatekeepers. However, even where there is an increase in demand, it is still important to consider what is happening on the supply-side; that is, the circumstances under which individuals will put themselves forward to run for office. One factor that has been identified as an important predictor of whether some…
An unfinished democracy’: Gender and political representation in the Republic of Ireland
Ireland’s Decade of Centenaries, beginning in 2012, has seen the commemoration of a period of significant social and political transformation. For scholars of gender and politics, it also provides the opportunity to take stock of women’s path to greater political representation (ultimately aided by the introduction of a candidate gender quota in 2016) and to highlight key areas where more work needs to be done in order to understand how women can…
Knowledge of autism and attitudes towards inclusive education for autistic pupils: A representative survey of school communities in Ireland
Autistic pupils have the right to access a quality education and be fully included in mainstream educational settings. This study aimed to measure knowledge of autism and attitudes towards the inclusion of autistic pupils in school communities across Ireland. An online survey was completed by parents, teaching staff and non-teaching staff (N = 661) from a representative sample of primary, post-primary, and special schools in Ireland, selected usi…
I Don’t Mind if You Ask Me: Methodological Insights From Conducting Inclusive Interviews With Autistic Students About Their School Experiences
In this study, we reflect on our experiences of planning for and implementing a large qualitative study of the lived experiences of autistic children and adolescents, a historically marginalised population. While there is a growing recognition of the need to amplify the voices of under-served populations, inclusive and participatory research is still rare, and even rarer with autistic children. Working within a neurodiversity paradigm, and drawin…
Violence against politicians in Ireland: What Does It Look Like and How Is It Gendered
The study of Irish politics: Lessons from Michael Gallagher
For over forty years, Michael Gallagher has been one of the most formidable voices in the study of Irish politics. A member of Trinity College’s Department of Political Science from 1979 to 2021, Gallagher taught Irish politics to generations of undergraduate and postgraduate students. A past president of the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI), he contributed to that association’s efforts to introduce up-to-date research methods and …
The case for feminist electoral geography
Irish (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Irish and British Studies (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works)