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Initial Teacher Education: Knowledge and Attitudes in Mathematics

The Teacher Upskilling Progammes Study

	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	Publication
	(2024)	*ICME-15* S Quirke (2024) First-person Mathematics-related Teacher Identity/Ies: Capturing the Learning Trajectory of an Out-of-field Teacher Of Mathematics ICME-15 [Details]
	(2023)	*MEI 9* S Quirke and M Goos (2023) Addressing (inadequate) mathematics teacher supply and teacher (mis)assignment: considering Ireland¿s past, present and future. Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Research in Mathematics Education in Ireland MEI 9 [Details]
	(2022)	*9th CASTeL STEM Education Research Conference* S Quirke (2022) eaching mathematics out-of-field and the journey to obtaining mathematics teacher certification 9th CASTeL STEM Education Research Conference [Details]

Year

Publication

(2024)

ICME-15
S Quirke (2024) First-person Mathematics-related Teacher Identity/Ies: Capturing the Learning Trajectory of an Out-of-field Teacher Of Mathematics ICME-15 [Details]

(2023)

MEI 9
S Quirke and M Goos (2023) Addressing (inadequate) mathematics teacher supply and teacher (mis)assignment: considering Ireland¿s past, present and future. Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Research in Mathematics Education in Ireland MEI 9 [Details]

(2022)

9th CASTeL STEM Education Research Conference
S Quirke (2022) eaching mathematics out-of-field and the journey to obtaining mathematics teacher certification 9th CASTeL STEM Education Research Conference [Details]

	Year	Publication
	(2023)	Ninth Conference on Research in Mathematics Education in Ireland, Stephen Quirke (2023) National mathematical mathematics education conference for Ireland, with both national and international contributions. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Ninth Conference on Research in Mathematics Education in Ireland, Dublin City University , 13-OCT-23 - 14-OCT-23. [Details]

Year

Publication

(2023)

Ninth Conference on Research in Mathematics Education in Ireland,
Stephen Quirke (2023) National mathematical mathematics education conference for Ireland, with both national and international contributions. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Ninth Conference on Research in Mathematics Education in Ireland, Dublin City University , 13-OCT-23 - 14-OCT-23. [Details]

	Year	Title	Awarding Body
	2016	European Educational Research Association Bursary	EERA
	2015	Postgraduate Research Scholarship	Irish Research Council

Year

Title

Awarding Body

2016

European Educational Research Association Bursary

EERA

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.