All Stories

  1. An autoethnographic account of a pragmatic inclusionary strategy and tactics as a form of feminist activism

    Article • Equality Diversity and Inclusion An International Journal, August 2019, Emerald

    Pat O'Connor

  2. Leadership practices by senior position holders in Higher Educational Research Institutes: Stealth power in action?

    Article • Leadership, May 2019, SAGE Publications

    Pat O'Connor

  3. Gender imbalance in senior positions in higher education: what is the problem? What can be done?

    Article • Policy Reviews in Higher Education, December 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Pat O'Connor

  4. Femininities in STEM: Outsiders Within

    Article • Work Employment and Society, September 2017, SAGE Publications

    Pat O'Connor

  5. European policies and research funding: a case study of gender inequality and lack of diversity in a Nordic research programme

    Article • Policy & Politics, October 2016, Policy Press

    Pat O'Connor

  6. Perpetuating academic capitalism and maintaining gender orders through career practices in STEM in universities

    Article • Critical Studies in Education, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Pat O'Connor

  7. Exploration of masculinities in academic organisations: A tentative typology using career and relationship commitment

    Article • Current Sociology, July 2015, SAGE Publications

    Pat O'Connor

  8. Good jobs – but places for women?

    Article • Gender and Education, March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Pat O'Connor

  9. Excellence in university academic staff evaluation: a problematic reality?

    Article • Studies in Higher Education, February 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Pat O'Connor

  10. Gender in Higher Education: A Critical Review

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pat O'Connor

  11. Different or similar: constructions of leadership by senior managers in Irish and Portuguese universities

    Article • Studies in Higher Education, June 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Pat O'Connor

  12. Management and gender in higher education

    Article • March 2014, Manchester University Press

    Pat O'Connor

  13. Prologue

    Article • March 2014, Manchester University Press

    Pat O'Connor

  14. The big picture

    Article • March 2014, Manchester University Press

    Pat O'Connor

  15. Policy priorities

    Article • March 2014, Manchester University Press

    Pat O'Connor

  16. Gentleman’s club or medieval court?

    Article • March 2014, Manchester University Press

    Pat O'Connor

  17. ‘Think manager–think male’?

    Article • March 2014, Manchester University Press

    Pat O'Connor

  18. Summary and conclusions

    Article • March 2014, Manchester University Press

    Pat O'Connor

  19. Finding a compass and mapping the terrain

    Article • March 2014, Manchester University Press

    Pat O'Connor

  20. An attractive job, but no place for a woman?

    Article • March 2014, Manchester University Press

    Pat O'Connor

  21. There is no problem; or, if there is, the problem is women

    Article • March 2014, Manchester University Press

    Pat O'Connor

  22. Understanding success: a case study of gendered change in the professoriate

    Article • Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, February 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Pat O'Connor

  23. The experiences of senior positional leaders in Australian, Irish and Portuguese universities: universal or contingent?

    Article • Higher Education Research & Development, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Pat O'Connor

  24. Explaining gender inequality in Iceland: what makes the difference?

    Article • European Journal of Higher Education, December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Pat O'Connor

  25. A Standard Academic Career?

    Article • January 2013, Nature

    Pat O'Connor

  26. Irish universities: male-dominated? Limits and possibilities for change?

    Article • Equality Diversity and Inclusion An International Journal, December 2011, Emerald

    Pat O'Connor

  27. Similarities and differences in collegiality/managerialism in Irish and Australian universities

    Article • Gender and Education, December 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Pat O'Connor

  28. O’Connor, Pat (2008) Irish Children and Teenagers in a Changing World. Manchester: Manchester University Press. (181 pp.) ISBN 9780719078194

    Article • Childhood, August 2011, SAGE Publications

    Pat O'Connor

  29. Where Do Women Fit in University Senior Management? An Analytical Typology of Cross-National Organisational Cultures

    Article • January 2011, Nature

    Pat O'Connor

  30. Is Senior Management in Irish universities Male-Dominated? What are the Implications?

    Article • Irish Journal of Sociology, May 2010, SAGE Publications

    Pat O'Connor

  31. Gender and Management in HEIs: Changing organisational and management structures

    Article • Tertiary Education and Management, September 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pat O'Connor

  32. Irish Young People's Narratives: The Existence of Gender Differentiated Cultures?

    Article • Irish Journal of Sociology, May 2009, SAGE Publications

    Pat O'Connor

  33. Globalization, Individualization and Gender in Adolescents’ Texts

    Article • International Journal of Social Research Methodology, October 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Pat O'Connor

  34. Supporting mothers: Issues in a Community Mothers Programme

    Article • Community Work & Family, April 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Pat O'Connor

  35. Emerging Voices: Women in Contemporary Irish Society

    Article • Women s Studies International Forum, March 2001, Elsevier

    Pat O'Connor

  36. Partners in Production? Women, Farm and Family in Ireland

    Article • Women s Studies International Forum, January 2001, Elsevier

    Pat O'Connor

  37. Emerging Voices: Women in Contemporary Irish Society, Pat O'Connor, Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 1998, paperback, IR 18.95, 307 pp.

    Article • Work Employment and Society, December 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Pat O'Connor

  38. Structure, culture and passivity: a case study of women in a semi‐state organization

    Article • Public Administration and Development, August 2000, Wiley

    Pat O'Connor

  39. Resistance Amongst Faculty Women in Academe

    Article • Higher Education in Europe, July 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Pat O'Connor

  40. Pat O'Connor, Emerging Voices: Women in Contemporary Irish Society, Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 1998, £IR18.95 paperback, x+308 pp. (ISBN 1-872002-74-9)

    Article • Sociology, May 2000, SAGE Publications

    Pat O'Connor

  41. Changing Places: Privilege and Resistance in Contemporary Ireland

    Article • Sociological Research Online, January 2000, Sociological Research Online

    Pat O'Connor

  42. Structure, culture and passivity: a case study of women in a semi-state organization

    Article • Public Administration and Development, January 2000, Wiley

    Pat O'Connor

  43. Partners in Production? Women, Farm and Family in Ireland

    Article • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, September 1999, SAGE Publications

    Pat O'Connor

  44. Women's friendships in a post-modern world

    Article • January 1999, Cambridge University Press

    Pat O'Connor

  45. Feminist Scholarship and Contemporary Ireland

    Article • The Irish Review (1986-), January 1999, JSTOR

    Pat O'Connor

  46. A Support Group for Families who have Children in Care: an Evaluative Case Study

    Article • Children & Society, April 1996, Wiley

    Pat O'Connor

  47. A support group for families who have children in care: an evaluative case study

    Article • Children & Society, March 1996, Wiley

    Pat O'Connor

  48. Understanding Variation in Marital Sexual Pleasure: An Impossible Task?

    Article • The Sociological Review, May 1995, SAGE Publications

    Pat O'Connor

  49. Women in the Zambian civil service: A case of equal opportunities?

    Article • Public Administration and Development, January 1994, Wiley

    Pat O'Connor

  50. Very close parent/child relationships: The perspective of the elderly person

    Article • Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, January 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pat O'Connor

  51. Friendships Between Women: A Critical Review. Pat O'Connor

    Article • American Journal of Sociology, September 1993, University of Chicago Press

    Pat O'Connor

  52. Adult Friendship.

    Article • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, September 1993, SAGE Publications

    Pat O'Connor

  53. Pat O'Connor, Friendships Between Women: A Critical Review, Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, 1992, 193 PP., £9.95, ISBN 0 754 0905 0.

    Article • Ageing and Society, September 1993, Cambridge University Press

    Pat O'Connor

  54. Politics and friendship: Letters from the International woman suffrage alliance 1902–1942

    Article • Women s Studies International Forum, July 1993, Elsevier

    Pat O'Connor

  55. Research Note: Women's Experience of the Mother Role

    Article • The Sociological Review, May 1993, SAGE Publications

    Pat O'Connor

  56. Friendship between Women: A Critical Review

    Article • Family Relations, April 1993, JSTOR

    Pat O'Connor

  57. Friendships between Women: A Critical Review

    Article • Journal of Marriage and Family, February 1993, JSTOR

    Pat O'Connor

  58. Friendships between women: a critical review

    Article • Choice Reviews Online, January 1993, American Library Association

    Pat O'Connor

  59. The Professionalisation of Child Care Work in Ireland: An Unlikely Development?

    Article • Children & Society, September 1992, Wiley

    Pat O'Connor

  60. Book Review: Friendships between WomenPatO'Connor, Friendships Between Women, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992; pp. x, 228.

    Article • Irish Journal of Sociology, May 1992, SAGE Publications

    Pat O'Connor

  61. Women's Experience of Power within Marriage: An Inexplicable Phenomenon?

    Article • The Sociological Review, November 1991, SAGE Publications

    Pat O'Connor

  62. Women's Confidants Outside Marriage: Shared or Competing Sources of Intimacy?

    Article • Sociology, May 1991, SAGE Publications

    Pat O'Connor

  63. The Adult Mother/Daughter Relationship: A Uniquely and Universally Close Relationship?

    Article • The Sociological Review, May 1990, SAGE Publications

    Pat O'Connor

  64. June Neill, Ian Sinclair, Peter Gorbach and Jenny Williams, A Need for Care—Elderly Applicants for Local Authority Homes, Avebury, Aldershot, 1988. 243 pp. £25.00;Ian Sinclair, David Crosbie, Pat O'Connor, Lorraine Stanforth and Anne Vickery, Bridging ...

    Article • Journal of Social Policy, January 1990, Cambridge University Press

    Pat O'Connor

  65. Ian Sinclair, David Crosbie, Pat O'Connor, Lorraine Stanforth and Anne Vickery, Bridging Two Worlds: Social Work and the Elderly Living Alone, Avebury, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1988, 221 pp., ISBN 0 566 05715 8.

    Article • Ageing and Society, December 1989, Cambridge University Press

    Pat O'Connor

  66. Images and Motifs in Children's Fairy Tales

    Article • Educational Studies, January 1989, Taylor & Francis

    Pat O'Connor

  67. A Standard Academic Career?

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Pat O'Connor