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	Year	Publication
	(2023)	'Teacher Professional Identity and Curriculum Reform' Quirke, S., Espinoza, L., Sensevy, G. (2023) 'Teacher Professional Identity and Curriculum Reform' In: Mathematics Curriculum Reforms Around the World. New ICMI Study Series. Cham: Springer. [Details]
	(2022)	'Eliminating the fear of getting `caught out¿: An examination of the development of out-of-field mathematics teachers¿ professional self-understanding' M Ní Ríordáin, M Goos, F Faulkner, S Quirke, C Lane, N O¿Meara (2022) 'Eliminating the fear of getting `caught out¿: An examination of the development of out-of-field mathematics teachers¿ professional self-understanding' In: Out-of-field teaching across teaching disciplines and contexts. Singapore: Springer. [Details]
	(2019)	'Developing professional knowledge and identities of non-specialist teachers of mathematics' M Goos, A Bennison, S Quirke, N O¿Meara, C Vale (2019) 'Developing professional knowledge and identities of non-specialist teachers of mathematics' In: International Handbook of Mathematics Teacher Education: Volume 1. Leiden: Brill \| Sense. [Details]

Year

Publication

(2023)

'Teacher Professional Identity and Curriculum Reform'
Quirke, S., Espinoza, L., Sensevy, G. (2023) 'Teacher Professional Identity and Curriculum Reform' In: Mathematics Curriculum Reforms Around the World. New ICMI Study Series. Cham: Springer. [Details]

(2022)

'Eliminating the fear of getting `caught out¿: An examination of the development of out-of-field mathematics teachers¿ professional self-understanding'
M Ní Ríordáin, M Goos, F Faulkner, S Quirke, C Lane, N O¿Meara (2022) 'Eliminating the fear of getting `caught out¿: An examination of the development of out-of-field mathematics teachers¿ professional self-understanding' In: Out-of-field teaching across teaching disciplines and contexts. Singapore: Springer. [Details]

(2019)

'Developing professional knowledge and identities of non-specialist teachers of mathematics'
M Goos, A Bennison, S Quirke, N O¿Meara, C Vale (2019) 'Developing professional knowledge and identities of non-specialist teachers of mathematics' In: International Handbook of Mathematics Teacher Education: Volume 1. Leiden: Brill | Sense. [Details]

	Year	Title	Awarding Body
	2015	Postgraduate Research Scholarship	Irish Research Council

Year

Title

Awarding Body

2015

Postgraduate Research Scholarship

Irish Research Council

	Journal	Role
	Frontiers in Education	Editor
	Educational Studies in Mathematics	Reviewer

Journal

Role

Frontiers in Education

Editor

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Reviewer

	Description
	Project Reference Group (https://www.scope-t.org/reference-group) member for the Shifting the Culture of Out-of-field Professional Education for Teachers¿ (SCOPE-T) project. This project, funded by the Australian Research Council for 2024-2026 [$287,119], aims to model an education system that would diversify the expertise of teachers as part of attending to long-term teacher shortage.

Description

Project Reference Group (https://www.scope-t.org/reference-group) member for the Shifting the Culture of Out-of-field Professional Education for Teachers¿ (SCOPE-T) project. This project, funded by the Australian Research Council for 2024-2026 [$287,119], aims to model an education system that would diversify the expertise of teachers as part of attending to long-term teacher shortage.