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Success for Geraldine Parks and her research partners, L. Harbison, M. Ryan, D. Ní Chonghaile (DCU), M. Holden (TCD) & S. McGill (UU), who received SCoTENS funding for their research “Assessment Of Mathematics For STEM Integration In Primary Irish And English Medium Education”.

Sending the very best to Dr Ciarán J. Kearney who will be presenting a paper on the psychology of injury in Gaelic games at the Gaelic Games Player Welfare Conference tomorrow in the Technological University of the Shannon in Athlone. Details at: gaa.ie/article/upcomi…

Best wishes to @FMacBhloscaidh and Padaí de Bléine, who will be talking about their research project at "An Chomhdháil ar Litríocht agus ar Chultúr na Gaeilge", which is due to take place in the University of Galway on 27-28 September. Further details at: universityofgalwaydoi.clr.events/event/136315:a…

Good luck to Dr Matthew Martin & Dr Gabrielle Nig Uidhir, who will be presenting at the SCoTENS conference. Matthew’s research is on student teachers’ understanding of belonging and Gabrielle’s is on essential competences for IME teachers. Details at: scotens.org/conferences/

Good luck to Dr Geraldine Magennis-Clarke who will be presenting her research, “From Faltering to Flowing: One Primary School’s Journey Embedding Oral Reading Fluency in Key Stage 2”, with Philip Lavery at this week's LAI conference. Details at: literacyireland.com/conference

Best wishes to Dr S Mac Corraidh, Dr T Rogan & H O’Donnell whose research, “Irish Language Framework for Children in Irish Medium Settings (Creat Teanga do Pháistí I Suíomhanna Lán-Ghaeilge)”, with M Carabine will feature at the LAI conference. Details at: literacyireland.com/conference

Special mention to Teresa Wilson (M-level Student) whose research, “Five Key Principles for Transitioning to Plurilingual Approaches in Linguistically Diverse Classrooms: A Survey of Teacher Experiences in an Urban Co Meath Primary School”, will be part of the LAI conference.

Hoping everything is going well for Prof Martin Hagan who is currently at the ICERI conference presenting his research, which is titled "Formative Factors Shaping Teacher Identity: Insights From The USA And Northern Ireland". Further details at: iated.org/iceri/

Wishing Dr Geraldine Magennis-Clarke good luck at the Literacy Research Association conference. Her collaborative presentation is titled “Cross-Atlantic Community of Readers for Pre-Service Teachers: Results from a Design-Based Research Study”. Details at: literacyresearchassociation.org/current-confer…

New noticeboards in the College proudly display summaries of the research work from a selection of recent MEd graduates. Their dissertations focused on, for example, student wellbeing, numeracy, teacher job satisfaction and linguistically diverse classrooms.

Great news for Dr Ciarán Kearney whose research in Journal of Sport Psychology in Action proposes principles and actionable strategies for coaches to develop environments that facilitate positive sport experiences among young Gaelic games players. Read at tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Dedication to study has resulted in the newly titled Dr Geraldine Parks graduating with a Doctor of Education (EdD) from Liverpool Hope University. Her research was on implementing mastery approaches for the reduction of mathematics anxiety in primary school pre-service teachers.

Success for Dr Matthew Martin & Karen McGivern who had their collaborative research project report with Dublin City University published by SCoTENS. It is titled “INVITE: Inclusion of Newcomers – Video Diaries in Initial Teacher Education”. Read at: scotens.org/invite-inclusi…

Congratulations to one of our Senior Lecturers, Dr Geraldine Magennis-Clarke, who is in good company having had her research on the science of reading included in the DE's "ResearchED Compendium of Presentations" that was published recently. Details at: education-ni.gov.uk/news/researche…

Well done to Dr Craig Goodall who had his co-authored research paper published recently. It is titled “An early inclusive start: teachers’ attitudes to their role in supporting autistic pupils within mainstream primary early intervention classes”. Read at: best-practice.middletownautism.com/wp-content/upl…

Congratulations to Professor Gerard McCann who presented his research, titled “New Europe: Redefining Identity”, online to delegates at the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University Ukraine, as part of the Education Development in Ukraine in War and Peace (EDUWAP) project.

Good news for three of our Senior Lecturers, Dr S. Mac Corraidh, Dr F. Mac Bhloscaidh & P. de Bléine, who had their research featured in Léann Teanga: An Reiviú, which is an online academic journal published by the University of Galway. Further details: leannteangaanreiviu.com/eagrain/2025/

Good luck to our Senior Lecturer, Dr Angela Vaupel, who will be presenting her research "'The Uses and Abuses of Irishness': Der Irlandkrimi - A German Reception of Irish Culture as a Substitute for National Heritage?" at the AEDEI Conference in the University of Huelva, Spain.

Everything is set up and ready for the annual Summer Research Symposium to be held on Friday 20th June in the College. Looking forward to hearing from our academic staff about their research projects. Wishing the very best to all the presenters.

Each presenter at today's Summer Research Symposium provided an interesting account of their research, with some relevant questions and constructive comments from colleagues. All contributions to the symposium were very much appreciated and the feedback was very positive.