Research Awards & Publications
Publications by PhD Researchers
Recent students have done research in many areas including the study of specific learning difficulties; the history of the training of nurses in Ireland; classroom culture in contemporary Ireland; education for women in the nineteenth century; I.T. and digital learning; the training of an Gárda Siochána since 1922; Play and Early Childhood Education; education & disadvantage; leadership in schools; and education in a diverse society.
Students are encouraged to publish their research. Recent PhD theses which have been published as books include Gerard Fealy's A History of Apprenticeship Nurse Training in Ireland (Routledge, 2006); The Pedagogy of Protest: The Educational Thought & Work of Patrick Pearse, by Brendan Walsh (Peter Lang, 2007), and Joyce Senior's Educational, Medical & Advisory Provision for Children with Epilepsy in Ireland (Brainwave, 2003). Most recently, Judith Harford's thesis on the opening of university education to women in nineteenth century Ireland was published in December 2007.
Reports on which post-graduate researchers played a leading role include The Role of Schools in Preventing Early School-leaving: Report to Department of Education and Science, 2004 (UCD contributing PhD author: Rose Malone). Research students have also contributed to important reports and policy documents, particularly in the areas of curriculum, education and disadvantage, special needs education, and gender studies. Students also collaborate with their supervisors to present conference papers, and to publish in leading international academic journals and in edited books. Recent publications by PhD researchers include Merike Darmody's chapter titled 'Strengthening the Social Climate in Schools to Combat Eductaional Disadvantage', in Beyond Educational Disadvantage (eds. P. Downes & L. Gilligan, 2007), and Catherine Nowlan Roebuck's jointly authored paper 'Convent Schools and National Education in Nineteenth Century Ireland' in History of Education (Routledge Taylor & Francis, Vol 36., No. 3, 2007).
Research Awards & Grants to PhD Researchers
At the School of Education & Lifelong Learning, research
students have won prestigious awards for their work, including awards
from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
(IRCHSS), National Children's Office and the National University of
Ireland. Recent recipients of IRCHSS awards include Rose Malone,
Martina Relihan, and Marie Clynes.
Pictured here is Martina Relihan (left)
with her research supervisor, Dr. Deirdre Raftery
In 2006, Martina was award a two-year IRCHSS grant for her PhD research on the history of Irish education.
2005 IRCHSS Senior Research Scholarship
The 2005 IRCHSS Senior Research Scholarship was awarded to Rose Malone (supervised by Professor Sheelagh Drudy).
The 2007 Postgraduate Research Scholarship
and the 2007 NUI Dr Mary L. Thornton Scholarships
Marie Clynes awarded the IRCHSS 2007 Postgraduate Research Scholarship and the 2007 NUI Dr Mary L. Thornton Scholarships for her work entitled Changing professional development needs of teachers: an international perspective on teachers, academics and CPD policy makers and providers.
