Reports and Open Access Publications

2025

Positive Discoveries: Identity Development and the Experiences of Gifted LGBTQ+ Students in Ireland

O Dunne, C O'Reilly, J O'Hara - Gifted and Talented International, 2025

Academic freedom in Irish higher education

R Yasa, J O'Hara, M Brown - Power and Education, 2025

Does school inspection lead to school improvement? A case study

M O'Doherty, G McNamara, S Gardezi, M Brown - Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2025

The power of coaching in the professional learning and development of school leaders: an ecological framework and critical insights from a systematic review

C Collins, R Murphy, M Brown - Frontiers in Education, 2025

2024

Exploring the multifaceted nature of school inspectors' power dynamics: A comparative analysis of four quality assurance systems

S Gardezi, G McNamara, M Brown, J O'Hara - Review of Education, 2024

Teacher leadership in school self-evaluation: an approach to professional development

S O'Brien, G McNamara, J O'Hara, M Brown, C Skerritt - Irish Educational Studies, 2024

Student participation in Irish primary schools

S O'Brien, J O'Hara, G McNamara, J O'Hara, S Hogan… - Education 3-13, 2024

A multilevel investigation of factors related to achievement in Ireland and Spain using PISA data

C Frade-Martínez, J O'Hara, A Gamazo… - Frontiers in Education, 2024

Exploring the multifaceted nature of school inspectors' power dynamics: A comparative analysis of four quality assurance systems

S Gardezi, G McNamara, M Brown… - Review of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library

Implementing distributed leadership in Irish voluntary secondary schools from the principals’ perspective

M O'Rourke, S O'Brien - Irish Educational Studies, 2024

2023 

Reconceptualizing evaluation and assessment from a culturally responsive standpoint–An Irish perspective

J O'Hara, G McNamara, M Brown, S O'Brien, D Burns… - New Directions for Evaluation, 2023

Student voice and classroom practice: How students are consulted in contexts without traditions of student voice

C Skerritt, M Brown, J O'Hara - Pedagogy, culture & society, 2023

School library provision in the Republic of Ireland

B O'Brien, S O'Brien, J O'Hara - School Libraries Worldwide, 2023

School inspections: a rhetoric of quality or reality?

S Gardezi, G McNamara, M Brown, J O'Hara - Frontiers in education, 2023

Middle leaders as policy translators: Prime actors in the enactment of policy

C Skerritt, G McNamara, I Quinn, J O'Hara, M Brown - Journal of Education Policy, 2023

Researching how student voice plays out in relation to classroom practice in Irish post-primary schools: a heuristic device

C Skerritt, J O'Hara, M Brown - Irish Educational Studies, 2023

From gatekeeper to proto-online tutor: The role of parents in digital education

R Austin, C Angeli-Valanides, M Brown, S Taggart - Studies in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2023

Virtual and augmented reality and pre-service teachers: Makers from muggles?

S Taggart, S Roulston, M Brown, E Donlon, P Cowan… - Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2023

Preparing teachers for diversity: How are teacher education systems responding to cultural diversity–the case of Austria and Ireland

B Herzog-Punzenberger, M Brown, H Altrichter… - Teachers and Teaching, 2023

A century of growing apart and challenges of coming together: Education across the island of Ireland

S Roulston, M Brown, S Taggart, E Eivers - Irish Studies in International Affairs, 2023

Enacting school self-evaluation: The policy actors in Irish schools

C Skerritt, J O'Hara, M Brown, G McNamara, S O'Brien - International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2023

Quality assuring an ethical education curriculum for schools in Ireland

S O'Brien, J O'Hara, G McNamara, J O'Hara - SN Social Sciences, 2023

The rise and convergence of school inspection systems. Comparative analysis of school inspection systems in Dubai, Ireland, New Zealand and Pakistan

M Brown, S Gardezi, G McNamara, J O'Hara - Revista de Educacion e Inspeccion, 2023

2022

Student voice and the school hierarchy: the disconnect between senior leaders and teachers

C Skerritt, J O'Hara, M Brown, G McNamara, S O'Brien - Oxford Review of Education, 2022

Challenges and opportunities for culturally responsive leadership in schools: Evidence from four European countries

M Brown, H Altrichter, I Shiyan, MJ Rodríguez Conde… - Policy Futures in Education, 2022

The evolution of academic selection in Northern Ireland

M Brown, C Skerritt, S Roulston, M Milliken… - Education policy in Ireland since 1922, 2022

For improvement, accountability, or the economy? Reflecting on the purpose (s) of school self-evaluation in Ireland

G McNamara, C Skerritt, J O'Hara, S O'Brien, M Brown - Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2022

Students as co-researchers in a school self-evaluation process

S O'Brien, G McNamara, J O'Hara, M Brown, C Skerritt - Improving Schools, 202

Culturally responsive classroom-based assessment A case study of secondary schools in Ireland

M Brown, D Burns, G McNamara, J O'Hara - Revista de Investigación Educativa, 2022

Deconstructing the challenges and opportunities for blended learning in the post emergency learning era

M Brown, C Skerritt, P Shevlin, G McNamara, J O'Hara - Irish educational studies, 2022

2021

Embedding self-evaluation in school routines

G McNamara, M Brown, S Gardezi, J O'Hara, S O'Brien… - Sage Open, 2021

Global messages from the edge of Europe the cause and effect of leadership and planning strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic

M Brown, J O'Hara, G McNamara, C Skerritt, P Shevlin - Irish Educational Studies, 2021

Education networks: a key driving force for school development in a time of crisis and change

J O'Hara, P Shevlin, M Brown, G McNamara - he Third Annual International Symposium “Education …, 2021

Exploring parent and student engagement in school self-evaluation in four European countries

M Brown, G McNamara, S Cinkir, J Fadar, M Figueiredo… - European Educational Research Journal, 2021

The rise and fall and rise of academic selection: The case of Northern Ireland

M Brown, C Donnelly, P Shevlin, C Skerritt… - Irish Studies in International Affairs, 2021

School self-evaluation an international or country specific imperative for school improvement?

M Brown, S Gardezi, L del Castillo Blanco… - International Journal of Educational Research Open, 2021

Operating educational networks in Northern Ireland: the EQI shaped professional learning network

J O'Hara, P Shevlin, M Brown, G McNamara - SHS Web of Conferences, 2021

2020

Quality assurance in Irish schools: Inspection and school self-evaluation

G McNamara, J O'Hara, M Brown, I Quinn - Administration, 2020

Teachers responding to cultural diversity: case studies on assessment practices, challenges and experiences in secondary schools in Austria, Ireland, Norway and Turkey

B Herzog-Punzenberger, H Altrichter, M Brown… - Educational Assessment, Evaluation and …, 2020

Evaluating the level of student and teacher involvement in second-level school processes and participation in decision making: An Irish case study

K Harrison, G McNamara, J O'Hara - Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020

Aiding culturally responsive assessment in schools in a globalising world

GA Nortvedt, E Wiese, M Brown, D Burns, G McNamara… - Educational Assessment, Evaluation and …, 2020

The potential, limitations and evaluation of education networks in a monocentric system

J O'Hara, M Brown, G McNamara, P Shevlin - Revista de Investigación Educativa, 2020

2019 

Assessment with and for migration background students-cases from Europe

F Nayır, M Brown, D Burns, J O'hara, G Mcnamara… - Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2019

2018

Challenges and supports towards the integration of ePortfolios in education. Lessons to be learned from Ireland

P Poole, M Brown, G McNamara, J O'Hara, S O'Brien… - Heliyon, 2018

Reflection-on-action in qualitative research processes: Deconstructing research and developing an honest critical self-appraisal rubric.

M Stynes, T Murphy, G McNamara, J O'Hara - Issues in Educational Research, 2018

Reflections on Reflective Practice among Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Practitioners in Ireland.

C O'Connor, J O'Hara - Irish Journal of Paramedicine, 2018

t’s good to talk! Reflective Discussion Forums to support and develop Reflective Practice among Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Practitioners in Ireland.

C O'Connor, J O'Hara - Irish Journal of Paramedicine, 2018

2017

Evaluation and decentralised governance: Examples of inspections in polycentric education systems

MCM Ehren, FJG Janssens, M Brown, G McNamara… - Journal of Educational Change, 2017

2016

Quality and the rise of value-added in education: The case of Ireland

M Brown, G McNamara, J O'Hara - Policy Futures in Education, 2016

2014

Ten Years A-Talking! Reflecting on the Role of the EERA Council from the Perspective of National Educational Research Associations

J O'Hara, G Holm - European Educational Research Journal, 2014

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Cultural Responsivity in Teacher Education Research in Action (CRiTERiA)-Government of Ireland Shared Island (SCoTENS) Final Report

M Brown, P Eaton, M Heinz, J Hughes, A Rowan… - Cultural Responsivity in Teacher Education Research …, 2024

Students Learning With Communities Programme Evaluation

J O'Hara, A Rowan, A Cassidy - 2025

Classroom assessment that recognises cultural difference—A European perspective

M Brown, H Altrichter, F Nayir, GA Nortvedt, D Burns… - Final Report, Dublin (M. Felner, Trans.). DOI, 2019

Aiding Culturally Responsive Assessment

D Burns, M Brown, G McNamara, J O'Hara, H Altrichter… - A Training Module to enhance Culturally Responsive…, 2019