UCD School of Education

UCD School of Education - Research Publications 2017/18

Below is the list of research publications for the UCD School of Education in the academic year 2017/18.



Books

Professor Judith Harford
Harford J (2018)  Education for All? The Legacy of Free Post-Primary Education in Ireland. Oxford: Peter Lang   

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Book Chapters

Dr Giuseppe Bolotta
Bolotta G (2017) 'Playing the NGO System: How Mothers and Children Design Political Change in the Slums of Bangkok' In: Dreams of Prosperity: Inequality and Integration in Southeast Asia.Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books. , pp.203-234  
Bolotta G (2018) '"Development Missionaries" in the Slums of Bangkok: From the Thaification to the de-Thaification of Catholicism' In: The Mission of Development Religion and Techno-Politics in Asia.Leiden: BRILL. , pp.135-164  
Ms Margaret Crean
Lynch, K; Crean, M (2018) 'Economic Inequality and Class Privilege in Education' In: Reflecting on Fifty Years since the Advent of 'Free Post-Primary Education'.UK: Peter Lang: Oxford.  
Dr Declan Fahie
Fahie D; McGillicuddy D (2018) 'The (Un)Questionable Challenges of Sample Access, Recruitment and Retention in Contemporary Workplace Bullying Research.' In: Concepts, Approaches and Methods. Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment.Singapore: Springer. Available Online  
Professor Judith Harford
Lynch K; Crean M (2018) 'Economic Inequality and Class Privilege in Education: Why Equality of Economic Condition is Essential for Equality of Opportunity’' In: Education for All? The Legacy of Free Post-Primary Education in Ireland.Oxford: Peter Lang. , pp.139-160  
Harford J; Fleming B (2018) 'Agency and Advocacy: The Key Actors behind the Free Education Initiative' In: Education for All? The Legacy of Free Post-Primary Education.Oxford: Peter Lang. Available Online  
Harford J (2018) 'Origins, Legacy and Impact: Reflections on the Free Education Scheme in Ireland' In: Education for All? The Legacy of Post-Primary Education.Oxford: Peter Lang. Available Online  
Dr Deirdre McGillicuddy
Fahie D; McGillicuddy D (2018) 'The (Un)Questionable Challenges of Sample Access, Recruitment and Retention in Contemporary Workplace Bullying Research.' In: Concepts, Approaches and Methods. Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment.Singapore: Springer. Available Online  
Professor Ciaran Sugrue
Sugrue C (2018) 'Changing the Educational Landscape: Transforming Teacher Professionalism?' Oxford: Peter Lang. , pp.203-230  

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Books Edited

Dr Giuseppe Bolotta
Bolotta G; Boone D; Chicarro G; Collomb N; Dussy D; Sarcinelli S (Ed.). (2017)  À quelle discipline appartiennent les enfants? Croisements, échanges et reconfigurations de la recherche autour de l'enfance. Marseilles: La Discussion.  
Professor Judith Harford
Harford, Judith (Ed.). (2018)  International Handbook of Historical Studies in Education: Debates, Tensions and Directions [Higher Education Section Editor]. London and New York: Springer.  
Harford, Judith (Ed.). (2018)  Education for All? The Legacy of Free Post-Primary Education.Oxford: Peter Lang. Available Online  

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Journal Articles

Dr Shane Bergin
Bergin SD; Murphy C; Shuilleabhain AN (2018) 'Exploring problem-based cooperative learning in undergraduate physics labs: Student perspectives'. European Journal of Physics 39 (2). Available Online  
Dr Giuseppe Bolotta
Bolotta, G. (2017) '"God's Beloved Sons": Religion, Attachment, and Children's Self-Formation in the Slums of Bangkok'. Antropologia 4 (2) :95-120. Available Online  
Bolotta, G. (2017) 'Introduction: Independent Children and their Fields of Relatedness'. Antropologia 4 (2) :7-23. Available Online  
Ms Margaret Crean
Crean M (2018) 'Affective formations of class consciousness: Care consciousness'. Sociological Review . Available Online  
Crean, M. (2018) 'Minority Scholars and Participatory Action Research.'. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung . Available Online  
Crean M (2018) 'Minority scholars and insider-outsider researcher status: Challenges along a personal, professional and political continuum'. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung 19 (1). Available Online  
Professor Dympna Devine
McGillicuddy D; Devine D (2018) '“Turned off” or “ready to fly” – Ability grouping as an act of symbolic violence in primary school'. Teaching and Teacher Education 70 :88-99. Available Online  
Byrne R; Devine D (2018) '‘Catholic schooling with a twist?’: a study of faith schooling in the Republic of Ireland during a period of detraditionalisation'. Cambridge Journal of Education 48 (4) :461-477. Available Online  
Devine, D and Cockburn, T. (2018) 'Theorizing Children's Social Citizenship: New welfare states and Inter-generational Justice'. Childhood . Available Online  
Kyriakides L; Charalambous E; Creemers BPM; Antoniou P; Devine D; Papastylianou D; Fahie D (2018) 'Using the dynamic approach to school improvement to promote quality and equity in education: a European study'. Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability . Available Online  
Dr Declan Fahie
Kyriakides L; Charalambous E; Creemers BPM; Antoniou P; Devine D; Papastylianou D; Fahie D (2018) 'Using the dynamic approach to school improvement to promote quality and equity in education: a European study'. Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability . Available Online  
Fahie, D., Quilty, A. and De Palma Ungaro, R. (2017) 'Editorial'. Irish Educational Studies 36 (1). Available Online  
Professor Judith Harford
Harford J (2018) 'Women's Education Associations: The Role of the Central Association of Irish Schoolmistresses and the Woman's Education Association, Boston in Advancing the Cause for Women's Admission to Trinity College Dublin and Harvard University'. Paedagogica historica . Available Online  
Harford J; Fleming B (2018) 'Reflections on how to Manage the Current Teacher Supply Crisis'. Leader: Quarterly Journal of the NAPD . Available Online  
Harford J (2018) 'Women's Education Associations: The Role of the Central Association of Irish Schoolmistresses and the Woman's Education Association, Boston in Advancing the Cause of Women's Admission to Trinity College Dublin and Harvard University'. Paedagogica Historica . Available Online  
Ms Michelle Kearns
Kearns M; Muldoon OT; Msetfi RM; Surgenor PWG (2018) 'Identification Reduces Stigma of Mental Ill-Health: A Community-Based Study'. American Journal of Community Psychology 61 (43132) :229-239. Available Online  
Kearns M; Muldoon OT; Msetfi RM; Surgenor PWG (2017) 'Darkness into light? Identification with the crowd at a suicide prevention fundraiser promotes well-being amongst participants'. European Journal of Social Psychology 47 (7) :878-888. Available Online  
Msetfi R; Jay S; O’Donnell AT; Kearns M; Kinsella EL; McMahon J; Muldoon OT; Naughton C; Creaven A-M (2018) 'Restricted reproductive rights and risky sexual behaviour: How political disenfranchisement relates to women’s sense of control, well-being and sexual health'. Journal of Health Psychology 23 (2) :252-262. Available Online  
Dr William Kinsella
O’Farrell P; Kinsella W (2018) 'Research exploring parents’, teachers’ and educational psychologists’ perceptions of consultation in a changing Irish context'. Educational Psychology in Practice 34 (3) :315-328. Available Online  
Smith A; Prendeville P; Kinsella W (2018) 'Using preferred interests to model social skills in a peer-mentored environment for students with special educational needs'. International Journal of Inclusive Education 22 (8) :921-935. Available Online  
Anglim J; Prendeville P; Kinsella W (2018) 'The self-efficacy of primary teachers in supporting the inclusion of children with autism spectrum disorder'. Educational Psychology in Practice 34 (1) :73-88. Available Online  
Rodden B; Prendeville P; Burke S; Kinsella W (2018) 'Framing secondary teachers’ perspectives on the inclusion of students with autism spectrum disorder using critical discourse analysis'. Cambridge Journal of Education . Available Online  
Prendeville P; Kinsella W (2018) 'The Role of Grandparents in Supporting Families of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Family Systems Approach'. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders . Available Online  
Dr Áine Mahon
Mahon Á; O’Brien E (2018) 'Risky Subjectivities in Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights'. Studies in Philosophy and Education 37 (2) :181-193. Available Online  
Áine Mahon and Elizabeth O'Brien (2018) 'Resonance, Response, Renewal: Literary Education in Rorty and Cavell'. Journal of Philosophy of Education 52 (3). Available Online  
Dr Deirdre McGillicuddy
McGillicuddy D; Devine D (2018) '“Turned off” or “ready to fly” – Ability grouping as an act of symbolic violence in primary school'. Teaching and Teacher Education 70 :88-99. Available Online  
Dr Lelia Murtagh
Reilly C; Murtagh L; Senior J (2017) 'Factors Associated with Age of Diagnosis in Four Neurogenetic Syndromes'. Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities 14 (3) :180-186. Available Online  
Dr Joyce Senior
Reilly C; Murtagh L; Senior J (2017) 'Factors Associated with Age of Diagnosis in Four Neurogenetic Syndromes'. Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities 14 (3) :180-186. Available Online  
Madden LOB; Senior J (2018) 'A proactive and responsive bio-psychosocial approach to managing challenging behaviour in mainstream primary classrooms'. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties 23 (2) :186-202. Available Online  
Dr Seaneen Sloan
Connolly, P; Miller, S; Kee, F; Sloan, S; Gildea, A; McIntosh, E; Boyer, N; Bland, M (2018) 'A cluster randomised controlled trial and evaluation and cost-effectiveness analysis of the Roots of Empathy schools-based programme for improving social and emotional well-being outcomes among 8- to 9-year-olds in Northern Ireland'. Public Health Research 6 (4). Available Online  
Professor Ciaran Sugrue
Sutphen M; Solbrekke TD; Sugrue C (2018) 'Toward articulating an academic praxis by interrogating university strategic plans<sup>*</sup>'. Studies in Higher Education  :1-13. Available Online  
Dr Jennifer Symonds
Symonds JE; O'Sullivan C (2017) 'Educating young adults to be work-ready in Ireland and the United Kingdom: A review of programmes and outcomes'. Review of Education 5 (3) :229-263. Available Online  
Symonds JE; O'Sullivan C (2017) 'Context and Implications Document for: Educating young adults to be work-ready in Ireland and the United Kingdom: A review of programmes and outcomes'. Review of Education 5 (3) :264-266. Available Online  

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Conference Publications

Professor Judith Harford
Harford J (2018) "Free Education" 50 Years On: Reflections on the Irish Educational Experience  In: American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual conference, New York  
Harford J (2018) The Gendering of Diaspora: First Generation Irish Women Teachers and Social Mobility in North America  In: Ireland Canada University Foundation Flaherty Visiting Lecture, Toronto  
Harford J (2018) The Gendering of Diaspora: Irish American Women Teachers and the Rise of the Irish American Elite, 1880‒1920  In: Massachusetts Historical Society Lecture, Boston  
Harford, Judith, O' Doherty, Teresa and O' Donoghue, Tom (2018) Recruiting and Educating the Best Teachers: Reflections from Ireland on the Current Crisis in Teacher Recruitment and Retention  In: Teacher Education Policy in Europe Network annual conference, Braga, Portugal  
Harford J (2018) The Perspectives of Women Professors on the Professoriate: A Missing Piece in the Narrative on Gender Equality in the University  In: EDUCATION SCIENCES Available Online  
Dr Áine Mahon
Áine Mahon (2018) The Irish Language: Both Familiar and Strange  In: Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland  

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Published Reports

Ms Margaret Crean
Crean, M and Lynch, K (2017)  Evaluation of the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme in County Wicklow. Ireland: County Wicklow Partnership  
Professor Dympna Devine
Devine D; Sugrue C; Symonds J; Sloan S; Bolotta G; Kearns M (2018)  Evaluation of the Safe Learning Model: Pilot Study Report. Dublin, Ireland: University College Dublin, School of Education  
Dr Seaneen Sloan
Devine D; Sugrue C; Symonds J; Sloan S; Bolotta G; Kearns M (2018)  Evaluation of the Safe Learning Model: Pilot Study Report. Dublin, Ireland: University College Dublin, School of Education  
Sloan S; Gildea A; Miller S; Thurston A (2018)  Zippy's Friends: Evaluation Report. London, England: Education Endowment Foundation  
Dr Jennifer Symonds
Devine D; Sugrue C; Symonds J; Sloan S; Bolotta G; Kearns M (2018)  Evaluation of the Safe Learning Model: Pilot Study Report. Dublin, Ireland: University College Dublin, School of Education  
O'Sullivan C; Symonds J; Akkermans J (2018)  An evaluation of Career LEAP: A work-readiness training programme for young adults not in education, employment or training. Dublin, Ireland: Temple-na-Scelig Press  

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Other Publications

Dr Shane Bergin
Shane Bergin, Dara O'Briain (2017)  Scintillating Science.  Available Online  
Shane Bergin, Seah O'Rourke (2017)  Science Matters: Genetic Engineering. RTE Available Online  
Shane Bergin, Sean O'Rourke (2017)  Science Matters: Food and Water Research. RTE Available Online  
Shane Bergin, Sean O'Rourke (2017)  Science Matters: Graphene. RTE Available Online  
Shane Bergin, Sean O'Rourke (2017)  Science Matters: The Search For Alien Life. RTE Available Online  
Dr Giuseppe Bolotta
Bolotta, G. (2017)  A Christmas Mourning: Catholicism in Post-Bhumibol Thailand. Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia Available Online  

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Media

Dr Shane Bergin
Shane Bergin, Aine Mahon (2017)  Academics must take action to save colleges from market's incursion. Available Online  
Dr Áine Mahon
Amanda Fulford and Áine Mahon (2018)  A Philosophical Defence of the Traditional Lecture. Times Higher Education  
Shane Bergin, Aine Mahon (2017)  Academics must take action to save colleges from market's incursion. Available Online  

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