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Accessibility & LanguageTeacher Professional Learning
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The work of the Teacher Professional Learning Research Group focuses specifically on the professional learning of teachers and the specific factors that influence it, including access to professional development, teachers as researchers, online teaching methodologies and digital pedagogies.
Projects funded by the European Commission, Department of Education, The Teaching Council, National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA), the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (NFETL) and Irish Research Council (IRC).
Research Staff:
Dr Andrea Higgins
Dr Brenda Gallagher
Dr Niamh Flynn
Rachel Konisberry
Breandán MacGearailt
Emer Davitt
Dr Cornelia Connolly
Dr Kathy O’Sullivan
Prof. Tony Hall
Dr Clíona Murray
Dr Paul Flynn
Dr Mary Kelly
Dr Sheila Garrity
Recent and Current Research Projects in this area:
Education for Sustainable Development
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Paul Flynn Dr Kathy O'Sullivan Dr Clíona Murray Dr Brenda Gallagher
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: Erasmus + (2023-2027)
Developing a School Based PME School Placement Induction and Support Programme
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Paul Flynn Rachel Konisberry
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: (2022 -2026)
Exploring School Leaders’ Personal Paradigms and their Approaches to School Leadership within Irish Secondary School Contexts
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Mary Kelly
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: (2023-2024/5)
Primary teacher professional learning for positive behaviour support
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Niamh Flynn
Project Partners: Collaboration with NEPS
Funded by: (2020-2022)
T-REX (Teachers’ Research Exchange)
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Principle Investigator(s): Prof. Tony Hall Dr Cornelia Connolly
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: The Teaching Council, NCCA, Department of Education (2015-2025)
Teacher Collaboration in Irish Primary Schools
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Andrea Higgins
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: (2023-2024)
Exploring the Development of Teacher Identity: The Views and Experiences of Student Teachers in the Irish Further Education Sector
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Brenda Gallagher
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: (2022-2024)
Geography Teacher Professional Development: Teacher Identity and Agency
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Brenda Gallagher
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: (2022-2024)
Teaching Senior Cycle Higher Level Mathematics
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Kathy O'Sullivan
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: (2022-2024)
Professional Diploma in Mathematics for Teaching (PDMT)
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Kathy O'Sullivan Prof. Tony Hall Dr Cornelia Connolly
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: Department of Education (2012-2019, 2020-2024)
Numeracy-Meets: Supporting Skilled Practitioners of Vulnerable Adult Numeracy Groups
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Kathy O'Sullivan
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: Department of Education (2023-2024)
Exploration of the Influence of Teachers’ Personal Paradigms on their Approaches to Teaching within an Irish Denominational Post Primary Context
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Mary Kelly
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: (2023-2024)
Sustainable Development Goals; Sharing, Discussing and Grappling with Big Issues: Professionalism and Positionality
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Brenda Gallagher
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: Virtual Mobility Funding (2022-2024)
Assessment and Feedback in Teacher Education
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Cornelia Connolly
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE) (2022-2024)
Exploration of the Influence of Multicultural School Counsellors’ Personal Paradigms on their Approaches to Counselling in an IB World School
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Mary Kelly
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: (2022-2023/4)
K-12 Teachers’ Experiences of Action Research based Collaborative Peer Development in an IB International School Context
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Mary Kelly
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: (2021-2023)
A Problem-Based Inquiry on Experiences of Organisational Change within an International School Environment: Insights and Implications for the Leadership of Complexity
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Mary Kelly
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: (2019-2023)
Philosophical and Pedagogical Insights Gained by IB Middle Year Teachers during Remote Teaching and Learning during the Covid-19 Pandemic
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Mary Kelly
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: (2020-2022)
Silver Linings: Developing a Model of Fully Online Teaching and Learning during a Global Pandemic
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Sheila Garrity (with Bonnie Thompson Long and Valerie Kelly of CALPD)
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: NFETL (2020-2022)
Analysis of the surveys and the written submissions on the Draft Specification for Leaving Certificate Irish (L1 and L2): Report prepared for the National Council of Curriculum and Assessment
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Principle Investigator(s): Breandán Mac Gearailt Emer Davitt Dr Clíona Murray
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: NCCA (2022)
Numeracy-Meet: Professional development and networking for adult numeracy practitioners
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Kathy O'Sullivan
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: IRC (2021-2022)
BRIST: Building a Research Infrastructure for School Teachers
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Principle Investigator(s): Prof. Tony Hall Dr Cornelia Connolly
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: Erasmus + (2019-2022)
Teacher Agency Experience in the Enactment of Leaving Certificate Computer Science
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Cornelia Connolly Dr Clíona Murray
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: The Teaching Council (2021)
Developing Good Practice Guidelines for Adult Tutors of Numeracy
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Kathy O'Sullivan
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: National Adult Literacy Association (NALA) (2019-2020)
NAC-NET: Establishing an Irish network to support teachers embedding numeracy across the curriculum
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Principle Investigator(s): Dr Kathy O'Sullivan
Project Partners: School of Education, University of Galway.
Funded by: The Teaching Council (2019-2020)
