Current Supervised Research

Below is a list of current research topics currently being undertaken by our students:

Ph.D. research

• Teacher on teacher bullying
• The Correlation between Education, Ethnicity and Access to Poverty Alleviation Resources in Vietnam.
• The effects of educational reform on Greek teachers
• Documenting and analyzing the educational experiences of people with visual impairment in Ireland. (A Life story approach).
• The influence of teachers' literacy history in their teaching of literacy to pupils with learning difficulties
• School disipline and classroom management
• The revival of the broad curriculum in three universities: Trinity (RoI), St Andrews (UK) and Brown (US)
• Early socialisation of newly qualified primary teachers in Ireland
• The role of drama in education in first language development in a designated disadvantaged school
• Letting languages live. An examination of the role of drama in education in the modern foreign language class in Irish second level schools
• An analysis of the motivation for take up of languages in senior cycle in Irish secondary schools
• An evaluation of the current induction procedures for newly-appointed teachers in relation to their needs and the needs of the school
• Compositional Writing at Primary School Level
• Poetry in the Classroom
• Developing a Chinese Ab Initio programme for University-Level learners: Design, Implementation and Evaluation.
• Virtual learning environments for school leadership development: Towards a model of CMC-supported professional learning

International Conferences 2013

**Post Graduate Research Conferences.....Read More**

Research Students

Student Name	Thesis Title
Jolanta Burke	Positive psychology interventions: building a model for individualised online training using the science of cyber psychology
Denise Burns	An exploration of the intellectual activity in the aims and assessment of selected subjects in the 2010 Leaving Certificate
Naila Burney Chugtai	Leaders or Jugglers? The Principal Dilemma: Irish Second-Level School Principals' Narratives, Identifying Selected Factors that Encourage/Limit Their Acting Ethically
Angela Coyne	Literacy: The Social and Emotional Factors affecting Literacy
Gene Dalton	Collaborative storytelling in a virtual world: a technology mediated approach to Irish language learning in the primary school
Alice Jurugo Drajea	The  Literacy Practices Among Parents and Families and their Effects on Pupils' Performance, Literacy Skills and Proficiencies: A case of Moyo Primary Schools in Uganda
Maria Garvey	Identification of Hidden Bullying in Schools - A sociometric approach
Katie Guinnane
Helen Heneghan	Teacher Perspectives on Differentiated Reading Instruction in Primary/Elementary Schools in Dublin and Houston
Ludovic Highman	Modernising Higher Education? The influence of European and international policies on differentiation in the mission and roles of higher education institutions in Ireland
Seline Keating	Electronic media:- Friend or Foe to an Irish child's pyschosocial development?
Mary Kenny	Towards an understanding of the causes of attrition among Further Education(FE) students in Ireland
Mary Kent	The Role of the Bystander in School Bullying
Kathy Kipp	Authoring Our Education:  Using Narrative to Explore the Student-Learner's Understanding of Self and Learning
Genevieve Murray	Teacher on Teacher Bullying
Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin	Project Maths - A Study of Pedagogical Implementation and Professional Development
Finin O’Seaghdha	Do teacher’s literacy histories inform their teaching? How does reflecting on their teaching inform / transform/ reform  their literacy identities
Colman Ross	An investigation of the relationship between Adult Basic Education (ABE) and accessing poverty alleviation resources in selected ethnic minority communities in Vietnam
Youcef Sai	Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching and Learning Islamic Religious Education in Irish Schools
John Paul Sheridan	“I Believe In A God That I Believe In” – The Religious Identity of Primary School Student Teachers

PhD student, Mohammad Alnufaie, has had a paper published in the Journal of Arts and Humanities. The paper, co-authored with his supervisor, Professor Grenfell, is entitled "EFL Writing Apprehension: The Macro or the Micro?" which can be found here [PDF]. Also, Mohammad has co-written a paper with his supervisor, Professor Michael Grenfell, with the title "EFL students' writing strategies in Saudi Arabian ESP writing classes: Perspectives on learning strategies in self-access language learning", which has been published in the latest issue of the Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal.

M.Litt. research

• The Continuing Professional Development of Language Teachers in the Republic of Ireland and a Language Teacher Portfolio Framework
• The development of learner autonomy in student-teachers through a programme in basic Chinese using a language portfolio
• Emotional and behavioural problems / Self-Esteem Enhancement.
• Teacher readiness for teaching social and political education
• Intercultuyralism and Cross Cultural Issues in Education
• Reading and writing Chinese characters by learners of Chinese as L2
• Educational philosophy and higher education reform: a Humboldtian view of two reform cases
• Exploring dance education for student teachers
• CSPE Assessment
• ICTS
• Mathematics Education
• The transition from media education to media literacy in English schools, c1960-2008
• Socialisation and cultural adaptation in international students in Ireland
• Arts and Social Regeneration
• Analysis of the written language of learners of English as a second language in post-primary schools
• A longitudinal study of critical thinking in undergraduate general nursing students
• Religious sensibilities and imaginaries in young Irish primary teachers
• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

D.Ed. research

• Special Needs
• Development of simulation for teaching purposes
• Senior cycle curriculum reforms
• Special Needs
• Self-efficacy in IT based learners
• Curriculum for students with learning difficulties
• Bullying behaviour in Nursing
• Male teachers
• School architecture
• Social disadvantage and teacher education
• Autism and inclusive education
• Student decision making relating to tertiary education choices
• Developing partnerships with SNA's
• Student international internships and learning experiences
• Attitudes to Exclusion from School
• Autism classes in mainstream school
• Student retention in Higher Education
• School bullying
• Acquisition of spoken English through five non-national primary school children
• Literacy
• Social inclusion
• Teacher Professionalism in further education
• Teaching Professional development in relation to ICT
• Using on-line learning for medical education
• Higher Education Policy
• Irish language in primary schools
• Self-efficacy in school children
• What factors make for success in schools with disadvantaged status
• Can on-line learning facilitate the on-line learner?
• Policy in Higher Education
• Assessment of SPHE programme
• Policy in Higher Education
• Special Needs Provision
• Teaching Ethics
• ICT in democratisation

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