• An enlightened environment? Workplace bullying and incivility in Irish Higher Education 

  Hodgins, Margaret; Mannix McNamara, Patricia (SAGE Publications, 2019)

  This study explores the experiences of workplace ill-treatment of academic staff in the Irish Higher Education sector, with a focus on organizational response to experienced or witnessed workplace bullying and/or incivility. ...
• Designing a national blended learning program for "out-of-field" mathematics teacher professional development 

  Goos, Merrilyn; O'Donoghue, John; Ní Ríordáin, Máire; Faulkner, Fiona; Hall, Tony; O'Meara, Niamh (Springer, 2020)

  "Out-of-field" teaching refers to the practice of assigning secondary school teachers to teach subjects that do not match their training or education. This practice is an issue of concern in many countries around the ...
• The futile quest for honesty in reflective writing: recognising self-criticism as a form of self-enhancement 

  McGarr, Oliver; O'Gallchóir, Ciarán (Taylor and Francis, 2020)

  Reflective writing tasks are commonly employed across higher education programmes, yet despite their use, they are often accompanied by concerns that students simply performance manage by constructing positive accounts of ...
• The characteristics, life circumstances and self-concept of 13 year olds with and without disabilities in Ireland: A secondary analysis of the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) study 

  Gallagher, Aoife L.; Galvin, Rose; Robinson, Katie; Murphy, Carol-Anne; Conway, Paul F.; Perry, Alison (Public Library of Science, 2020)

  Background Population-based studies provide important data to inform policy and service planning for vulnerable children in society. The aim of this study was to characterise social and educational circumstances and ...
• An attitudinal snapshot of pre-service secondary mathematics teachers 

  Prendergast, Mark; Ní Ríordáin, Máire; Ní Shúilleabháin, Aoibhinn; Johnson, Patrick; O'Rourke, Iseult (Western Australian Institutes for Educational Research, 2020)

  .A teacher’s attitude towards a subject has a major influence on their learning and subsequent teaching of that subject. This has a knock-on effect on the development of their own students’ attitudes. However, despite such ...
• LGB teachers and the (com)promised conditions of legislative change 

  Neary, Aoife (Taylor and Francis, 2020)

  The personal/professional boundary poses particular difficulties for LGB teachers because of the pervasive presumption of heterosexuality. Furthermore, the teaching profession’s concern with the care of children combines ...
• Marriage equality time: entanglements of sexual progress and childhood innocence in Irish primary schools 

  Neary, Aoife; Rasmussen, Mary Lou (SAGE Publications, 2019)

  Ireland is a majority-Catholic country that has, in recent times, been held up as a model of sexual progress internationally. We employ the term Marriage Equality Time (MET) to signify the tensions related to temporality, ...
• Critical imaginaries of empathy in teaching and learning about diversity in teacher education 

  Neary, Aoife (Taylor and Francis, 2019)

  ‘Difficult’ or potentially discomforting diversity topics and critical, unsettling pedagogies often induce resistances or charges of ‘irrelevance’ in teacher education contexts. In teaching with these topics and pedagogies, ...
• Complicating constructions: middle-class parents of transgender and gender-diverse children 

  Neary, Aoife (Taylor and Francis, 2019)

  Recent years have seen an increase in the visibility of transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) children in the public sphere. Jack Halberstam [(2018). Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (Vol. 3). University ...
• 'Centering' teaching excellence in higher education 

  Lane, Diarmaid (2019)

  This paper explores the complexity of ‘teaching excellence’ (Kreber, 2002) in contemporary higher education. It describes how a university academic, who has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards, questions if they ...
• Graduate students’ perceptions of a problem-based learning (PBL) programme in a higher education institution in Ireland; exploring the function of power relations and group identity formation 

  O'Brien, Ronan F. (University of Limerick, 2019)

  Problem-based approaches to student learning in higher education have become increasingly popular in recent years predicated on the assumption that they are significantly different to traditional forms of pedagogy in that ...
• Living literacy : an exploration of post-primary teachers' understandings of literacy during the implementation stage of a national literacy strategy in Ireland 

  Lenihan, Rachel Ann Maria (University of Limerick, 2019)

  The aim of this study is to gain an insight into post-primary teachers’ understandings of literacy at both conceptual and practical levels, during the implementation stage of a national literacy strategy. It is timely ...
• Design teams management of conflict in reaching consensus 

  Kiernan, Louise; Ledwith, Ann; Lynch, Raymond (Emerald, 2020)

  Purpose - The purpose of this article is to explore the conversation activities of design teams to negotiate task conflict and reach consensus. Design/methodology/approach - Four case studies were conducted to analyse ...
• STEM and gender at university: focusing on Irish undergraduate female students' perceptions 

  Kelly, Regina; McGarr, Oliver; Lehane, Louise; Eduran, Sibel (Emerald, 2019)

  Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify whether or not females believe they associate with the culture of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by investigating the perceptions of female ...
• Process evaluation of a community mobilization intervention for preventing men’s partner violence use in peri-urban South Africa 

  Hatcher, Abigail M.; McBride, Ruari-Santiago; Rebombo, Dumisani; Munschi, Shehnaz; Khumalo, Mzwakhe; Christofides, Nicola (Elsevier, 2020)

  Intimate partner violence (IPV) is experienced by one-third of women globally, yet few programs attempt to shift men’s IPV perpetration. Community mobilization is a potential strategy for reducing men’s IPV perpetration, ...
• Ultra-short race-pace training (USRPT) In swimming: current perspectives 

  Nugent, Frank J.; Comyns, Thomas M.; Kearney, Philip Edward; Warrington, Giles D. (Dovepress Medical Press, 2019)

  The last decade has seen a dramatic rise in sports science research due to the ever-increasing professionalization of sport. As a result, many alternative training methodologies that challenge traditional training ...
• Peer-supported collaborative inquiry in teacher education: exploring the influence of peer discussions on pre-service teachers' levels of critical reflection 

  McGarr, Oliver; McCormack, Orla; Comerford, Jason (Taylor and Francis, 2019)

  Scaffolding pre-service teachers to critically reflect on their practice remains a challenging goal. Exploring the extent to which peer discussion facilitates this critical reflection is the focus of this paper. Using a ...
• Exploring pre-service teachers' future intentions to use technology through the use of comics 

  Gavaldon, Guillermina; McGarr, Oliver (Elsevier, 2019)

  Pre-service teachers' attitudes and future intentions to use digital technologies have been explored through both quantitative and qualitative studies. This study adopts an alternative approach through the use of student ...
• Where next for youth mental health services in Ireland? 

  McMahon, Jennifer; Ryan, F.; Cannon, M.; O'Brien, G.; O'Callaghan, M.; Flanagan, R.; O'Connor, K.; Chambers, D.; Byrne, S.; McGorry, P. (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

  To date, Ireland has been a leading light in the provision of youth mental health services. However, cognisant of the efforts of governmental and non-governmental agencies working in youth mental health, there is much to ...
• An investigation into the extent and derivation of mathematics anxiety among mature students in Ireland 

  Ryan, Dolores Maria (University of Limerick, 2019)

  An increasing number of students entering higher education undergraduate programmes in Ireland are required to take modules in mathematics, referred to as ‘service mathematics’ where mathematics is a component of study, ...

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