Dr. Joanne Banks

• McCoy, Selina, Banks, Joanne, Frawley, Denise, Watson, Dorothy, Shevlin, Michael, Smyth, Fiona, Understanding Special Class Provision in Ireland: Findings from a National Survey of Schools, NCSE Research Report, 16, Dublin, ESRI and National Council for Special Education, May, 2014, p1 - 169Report, 2014, URL , TARA - Full Text
• Layte, Richard and Banks, Joanne, Socio-economic differentials in mortality by cause of death in the Republic of Ireland, 1984-2008, European Journal of Public Health, 26, (3), 2016, p451 - 458Journal Article, 2016, DOI
• Smyth, Emer, Conway, Paul, Leavy, Aislin, Darmody, Merike, Banks, Joanne and Watson, Dorothy , Review of the Droichead Teacher Induction Pilot Programme, Dublin, ESRI and The Teaching Council, March, 2016, p1 - 214Report, 2016, URL , TARA - Full Text
• Banks, Joanne, McCoy, Selina, Frawley, Denise, Kingston, Gillian, Shevlin, Michael, Smyth, Fiona, Special Classes in Irish Schools-Phase 2: A Qualitative Study, NCSE Research Report, 24, Trim, Co. Meath, NCSE and ESRI, August, 2016, p1 - 110Report, 2016, URL
• Banks, Joanne, Byrne, Delma, McCoy, Selina and Smyth, Emer, Bottom of the class? The leaving certificate applied programme and track placement in the Republic of Ireland, Irish Educational Studies, 33, (4), 2014, p367 - 381Journal Article, 2014, DOI
• Watson, Dorothy, Banks, Joanne and Lyons, Seán , Educational and Employment Experiences of People with a Disability in Ireland: An Analysis of the National Disability Survey, ESRI Research Series, 41, Dublin, ESRI, July, 2015, p1 - 99Report, 2015, URL
• Banks, Joanne and McCoy, Selina , An Irish Solution ? Questioning the Expansion of Special Classes in an Era of Inclusive Education, The Economic and Social Review, 48, (4), 2017, p441 - 461Journal Article, 2017, URL
• Banks, Joanne, McCoy, Selina and Frawley, Denise, One of the gang? Peer relations among students with special educational needs, European Journal of Special Needs Education, 33, (3), 2017, p396 - 411Journal Article, 2017, DOI
• Banks, Joanne and Smyth, Emer , 'Your whole life depends on it': Academic Stress and High Stakes Testing in Ireland, Journal of Youth Studies, 18, (5), 2015, p598 - 616Journal Article, 2015, DOI
• Frawley, Denise, McCoy, Selina and Banks, Joanne, Affective School Engagement: How are Irish boys and girls faring?, Child Indicators Research, 7, (4), 2014, p843 - 859Journal Article, 2014, DOI
• Banks, Joanne, Maitre, Bertrand, McCoy, Selina and Watson, Dorothy, Parental Educational Expectations of Children with Disabilitie, ESRI Research Series, 50, Dublin, ESRI and NDA, May, 2016, p1 - 70Report, 2016, URL
• Smyth, Emer, Banks, Joanne, Whelan, Adele, Darmody, Merike and McCoy, Selina, Review of the School Completion Programme, ESRI Research Series, 44, Dublin, ESRI, October, 2015, p1 - 208Report, 2015, DOI , URL
• Banks, Joanne, McCoy, Selina and Maitre, Bertrand, Insights into the Lives of Children with Disabilities, Dublin, ESRI and the National Disability Authority, 2015Report, 2015, URL
• Playing Catch-up or Overspending? Managing the Cost of Special Education in, editor(s)Brian Mooney , Education Matters, Ireland's Yearbook of Education, Dublin, Education Matters, 2017, pp236 - 242, [Banks, Joanne and McCoy, Selina]Book Chapter, 2017, URL
• Recent Expansion of Special Classes in Irish Mainstream Schools in, editor(s)Brian Mooney , Education Matters, Ireland's Yearbook of Education, Dublin, Education Matters, 2016, pp179 - 183, [McCoy, Selina and Banks, Joanne ]Book Chapter, 2016
• Insights into the Prevalence of Special Educational Needs in, editor(s)James Williams, Elizabeth Nixon, Emer Smyth, Dorothy Watson , Cherishing All the Children Equally? Ireland 100 Years on from the Easter Rising, Dublin, ESRI, 2016, pp153 - 174, [McCoy, Selina, Banks, Joanne and Shevlin, Michael]Book Chapter, 2016, DOI , URL
• Resource allocation for students with special educational needs and disabilities in, editor(s)John Cullinan, Sean Lyons and Brian Nolan , The Economics of Disability in Ireland, Dublin, Manchester University Press, 2014, pp86 - 97, [Frawley, Denise, Banks, Joanne and McCoy, Selina]Book Chapter, 2014
• The Spatial Distribution of Household Income in Ireland in, editor(s)O'Donoghue, C., Ballas, D., Clarke, G., Hynes, S., Morrissey, K. , Spatial Microsimulation for Rural Policy Analysis, Berlin-Heidelberg, Springer, 2014, pp193 - 211, [O'Donoghue, Cathal, Morrissey, Karen, Hayes, Philip, Loughrey, Jason, Banks, Joanne, Hynes, Stephen]Book Chapter, 2014, URL
• Smyth, Emer, Banks, Joanne, O'Sullivan, Jessica, McCoy, Selina, Redmond, Paul and McGuinness, Seamus, Evaluation of the National Youthreach Programme, ESRI Research Series, 82, Dublin, ESRI, May, 2019, p1 - 226Report, 2019, DOI , URL
• Smyth, Emer, McCoy, Selina, Banks, Joanne, Student, teacher and parent perspectives on senior cycle education, ESRI Research Series, 94, Dublin, ESRI, November, 2019, p1 - 99Report, 2019, DOI , URL
• Smyth, Emer, Williams, James and Banks, Joanne, Growing Up in Ireland County Variation in the Outcomes of Children and Young People, Technical Series, 2019 - 1, Dublin, ESRI, DCYA, TCD, December, 2019, p1 - 37Report, 2019, URL
• Banks, Joanne, Disability data in the Growing Up in Ireland Study, Irish Disability Studies Association (IDSA) seminar, School of Education, Trinity College, December 5, 2018Conference Paper, 2018
• Banks, Joanne, Grotti, Raffaele, Fahey, Éamonn and Watson, Dorothy, Disability and discrimination in Ireland: Evidence from the QNHS Equality Modules 2004, 2010, 2014, Dublin, ESRI and The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC), October, 2018, p1 - 76Report, 2018, DOI , URL
• Kelly, Elish, Banks, Joanne, McGuinness, Seamus, Watson, Dorothy, Playing senior inter-county Gaelic games: experiences, realities and consequences, ESRI Research Series, 76, Dublin, ESRI, September, 2018, p1 - 260Report, 2018, DOI , URL
• McCoy, Selina, Maître, Bertrand, Watson, Dorothy and Banks, Joanne, The role of parental expectations in understanding social and academic well-being among children with disabilities in Ireland, European Journal of Special Needs Education, 31, (4), 2016, p535 - 552Journal Article, 2016, DOI
• Banks, Joanne, Frawley, Denise and McCoy, Selina, Achieving inclusion? Effective resourcing of students with special educational needs, International Journal of Inclusive Education, 19, (9), 2015, p926 - 943Journal Article, 2015, DOI
• Smyth, Emer and Banks, Joanne, `There was never really any question of anything else': young people's agency, institutional habitus and the transition to higher education, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 33, (2), 2012, p263--281Journal Article, 2012, DOI
• Banks, Joanne and McCoy, Selina, Special Classes in Irish Schools - A Qualitative Study, National Council for Special Education Research Conference, Croke Park Conference Centre, November 16th, 2016Conference Paper, 2016
• Banks, Joanne and McCoy, Selina, Using peer relations as a measure of inclusion, Educational Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, Maynooth, 16thth April, 2015Conference Paper, 2015
• Banks, Joanne and McCoy, Selina, One of the gang? Peer relations among students with special educational needs, Growing Up in Ireland Annual Conference, Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin, 20th November, 2014Conference Paper, 2014
• Smyth, Emer and Banks, Joanne, Putting your nose to the grindstone? A longitudinal analysis of the take‐up of private tuition among second‐level students in Ireland, Educational Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, Athlone, 11th April, 2014Conference Paper, 2014
• Examining the Cost of Special Education in, editor(s)Umesh Sharma , Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education, New York, Oxford University Press, 2020, [Joanne Banks]Book Chapter, 2020, DOI
• A Winning Formula? Funding Inclusive Education in Ireland in, editor(s)Goldan, J., Lambrecht, J. and Loreman, T. , Resourcing Inclusive Education (International Perspectives on Inclusive Education, Vol. 15, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021, pp7-19 , [Joanne Banks]Book Chapter, 2021, URL
• Ann Devitt, Aibhin Bray, Joanne Banks, Eilís Ní Chorcora, Teaching and Learning During School Closures: Lessons Learned. Irish Second-Level Teacher Perspectives, Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, July, 2020, p1 - 93Report, 2020, TARA - Full Text
• Ann Devitt, Colm Ross, Aibhín Bray and Joanne Banks, Parent Perspectives on Teaching and Learning During Covid-19 School Closures: Lessons Learned from Irish Primary Schools, Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, July, 2020Report, 2020, TARA - Full Text
• Aibhín Bray, Eilís Ní Chorcora, Jen Maguire Donohue, Joanne Banks and Ann Devitt, Post-primary Student Perspectives on Teaching and Learning During Covid-19 School Closures: Lessons learned from Irish Students from schools in a Widening Participation Programme, Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, August, 2020Report, 2020, TARA - Full Text
• Aibhín Bray, Eilís Ní Chorcora, Jen Maguire Donohoe, Joanne Banks, Ann Devitt, Post-primary Student Perspectives on Teaching and Learning During Covid-19 School Closures: Lessons learned from Irish Students from schools in a Widening Participation Programme, Dublin, Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, August, 2020Report, 2020
• Des Aston, Joanne Banks, Michael Shevlin, Pathways to post-secondary settings for students with intellectual disabilities: What do we know?, Educational Studies Association of Ireland Conference, Dublin, 4th September 2020, 2020Conference Paper, 2020
• Des Aston, Joanne Banks, Michael Shevlin, Transitions to postschool settings for students with intellectual disabilities in Ireland, International Perspectives on Transitions in Education and Students with Intellectual Disabilities, Online, 16.12.2020, edited by IASSIDD , IASSIDD, Inclusive Education Special Interest Research Group, 2020Conference Paper, 2020
• Des Aston, Joanne Banks, Michael Shevlin, Post-School Transitions for Students with Intellectual Disabilities in the Republic of Ireland, Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, February, 2021Report, 2021, TARA - Full Text
• Joanne Banks, Una formula vincente? Il finanziamento dell'inclusione scolastica in Irlanda, L'integrazione scolastica e sociale , 20, (1), 2021, p1 - 17Journal Article, 2021, URL
• Joanne Banks, Financing Inclusive Education: Implications for the Implementation of Inclusive Education, ECER symposium , Education and Society: expectations, prescriptions, reconciliations, Geneva, September , 2021Conference Paper, 2021
• Michael Shevlin, Joanne Banks, Inclusion at a Crossroads: Dismantling Ireland's System of Special Education, Education Sciences, 11, (4), 2021, p161-Journal Article, 2021
• Aibhín Bray, Joanne Banks, Ann Devitt and Eilís Ní Chorcora, Connection before content: using multiple perspectives to examine student engagement during Covid-19 school closures in Ireland, Irish Educational Studies, 40, (2), 2021, p431 - 441Journal Article, 2021, DOI
• Joanne Banks, Michael Shevlin, Shivaun Quinlivan, The Right to Education: Examining Inclusive Education in Ireland under the UNCRPD, Children & Disability Webinar 10-11 September, Leeds, 10 September , 2020Conference Paper, 2020
• Margaret Flood and Joanne Banks, Universal Design for Learning: Is It Gaining Momentum in Irish Education?, Education Sciences, 11, (7), 2021, p341-Journal Article, 2021, URL , TARA - Full Text
• Rhona Dempsey, Olive Healy, Emma Lundy, Joanne Banks, Margaret Lawler, Air travel experiences of autistic children/young people, Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights, 2, (2), 2021Journal Article, 2021, URL
• Joanne Banks, Emer Smyth, "We respect them, and they respect us": The Value of Interpersonal Relationships in Enhancing Student Engagement, Education Sciences, 11, (10), 2021, p634-Journal Article, 2021, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
• Quantitative Research Methods in, editor(s)Declan Fahie, Shane Bergin , The Student Guidebook to Doing your Research Project , Dublin, Ireland, UCD Press , 2022, [Aibhín Bray, Joanne Banks, Ann Devitt]Book Chapter, 2022
• Falling between Two Stools? Post-secondary Transition Planning for Students with Intellectual Disabilities in the Republic of Ireland in, editor(s)Kate Scorgie, Chris Forlin , Transition Programs for Children and Youth with Diverse Needs. International Perspectives on Inclusive Education., Bingley, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022, pp143-158 , [Joanne Banks, Des Aston, Michael Shevlin]Book Chapter, 2022, DOI
• Aibhin Bray, Ann Devitt, Joanne Banks, Sergio Sanchez Fuentes, Marta Sandoval, Katerina Riviou, Darren Byrne, Mags Flood, Jean Reale, Silvia Terrenzio, What next for Universal Design for Learning? A Systematic Literature Review of Technology in UDL Implementations at Second Level, British Journal of Educational Technology, 2023, p1 - 26, p22Journal Article, 2023, DOI
• Falling between Two Stools? Post-secondary Transition Planning for Students with Intellectual Disabilities in the Republic of Ireland in, editor(s)Scorgie, K., & Forlin, C. , Transition Programs for Children and Youth with Diverse Needs International Perspectives on Inclusive Education, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022, pp143-158 , [Joanne Banks, Des Aston, Michael Shevlin]Book Chapter, 2022
• Joanne Banks, The Inclusion Dialogue: Debating issues, challenges and tension with global experts, Routledge Education, 2022Book, 2022
• Frontiers in Education, 6, (2022), Joanne Banks and Michael Shevlin, [eds.]Journal, 2022, URL
• Universal Design for Learning Policy in Tertiary Education in Ireland: Are we Ready to Commit? in, editor(s)Joseph W. Madaus and Lyman L. Dukes III , Handbook of Higher Education and Disability, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, [Richard Healy, Joanne Banks, Dara Ryder]Book Chapter, 2022
• Funding models of inclusion in an international perspective in, editor(s)Seitz, Simone, Auer, Petra & Bellacicco, Rosa , Inclusion in an international Perspective - Educational Justice in the Focus, 2022, [Joanne Banks, Silver Cappello, Heidrun Demo, Rune Hausstätter, Simone Seitz]Book Chapter, 2022
• Kubiak, John, Devitt, Marie, Banks, Joanne, Lecturing on Inclusion: Graduates of the Certificate in Arts, Science and Inclusive Applied Practice (ASIAP) informing the professional practice of student teachers , Inclusive Higher Education Network Europe, Salzberg, 27-28 October 2022, 2022Conference Paper, 2022
• Joanne Banks, The Future of Learning is Now, Lessons to Learn from Inclusive Education, Learnovation 2022, Croke Park, Dublin, 20th October 2022, edited by Learnovation 2022 , 2022Conference Paper, 2022
• Joanne Banks, An introduction to the Trinity Inclusive Curriculum Project (Trinity-INC), Universal design as an institutional approach: international good practices, Brussels, Belgium, 12 May 2022, edited by SIHO Support Centre Inclusive Higher Education , 2022Conference Paper, 2022
• Ann, Devitt, Joanne Banks, Aibhin Bray, Gavin Murphy, Sergio Sanchez, Marta Sandoval , Mapping Evidence-Based Practices Within the Universal Design for Learning Framework, Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth, Chicago, United States, 13-16th April 2023, edited by American Educational Research Association , 2023Conference Paper, 2023
• Joanne Banks, Ann Devitt, What has technology ever done for us? ​ Second-level student voices, The 8th Annual CAST UDL Symposium, Online, July 2022, 2022Conference Paper, 2022
• Joanne Banks, Chris Forlin, Dianne Joy Chambers, Home-schooling in the Republic of Ireland, British Journal of Special Education, 2023, p1 - 9Journal Article, 2023
• Banks, Joanne, Byrne, Delma, McCoy, Selina, Smyth, Emer, Engaging Young People? Student Experiences of the Leaving Certificate Applied, ESRI Research Series, 15, Dublin, ESRI/NCCA, April, 2010, p1 - 188Report, 2010, URL , TARA - Full Text
• McCoy, Selina, Byrne, Delma and Banks, Joanne, Too Much of a Good Thing? Gender, 'Concerted Cultivation' and Unequal Achievement in Primary Education, Child Indicators Research, 5, (1), 2012, p155 - 178Journal Article, 2012, DOI , URL
• Russell, Helen and Banks, Joanne, Pregnancy and Employment: A Literature Review, Dublin, HSE Crisis Pregnancy Programme and the Equality Authority, June, 2011, p1 - 66Report, 2011, URL
• Russell, Helen, Watson, Dorothy and Banks, Joanne, Pregnancy at Work: A National Survey, Dublin, HSE Crisis Pregnancy Programme and the Equality Authority, June, 2011Report, 2011, URL
• Banks, Joanne and Smyth, Emer, Continuous Professional Development among Primary Teachers in Ireland, Maynooth, The Teaching Council and ESRI, June, 2011, p1 - 57Report, 2011, URL
• Banks, Joanne and Russell, Helen, Pregnancy Discrimination in the Workplace: Legal Framework and Review of Legal Decisions 1999 to 2008, Dublin, HSE Crisis Pregnancy Programme and the Equality Authority, June, 2011, p1 - 50Report, 2011, URL
• Smyth, Emer, Banks, Joanne and Calvert, Emma, From Leaving Certificate to Leaving School: A Longitudinal Study of Sixth Year Students , Dublin, The Liffey Press in association with ESRI, NCCA and Department of Education & Skills, 2011, 1 - 271ppBook, 2011, URL , TARA - Full Text
• Smyth, Emer and Banks, Joanne, 'There Was Never Really Any Question of Anything Else': Young People's Agency, Institutional Habitus and the Transition to Higher Education, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 33, (2), 2012, p263 - 281Journal Article, 2012, DOI , TARA - Full Text
• McCoy, Selina and Banks, Joanne, Simply Academic? Why Children with Special Educational Needs Don't Like School, European Journal of Special Needs Education, 27, (1), 2012, p81 - 97Journal Article, 2012, DOI
• Banks, Joanne and McCoy, Selina, A Study on the Prevalence of Special Educational Needs, ESRI Research Series, 9, Dublin, National Council for Special Education, December , 2011, p1 - 150Report, 2011, URL
• McCoy,Selina, Smyth,Emer and Banks,Joanne, The Primary Classroom: Insights from the 'Growing Up in Ireland' Study, Dublin, NCCA and ESRI, January, 2012Report, 2012, URL , TARA - Full Text
• Banks, Joanne, Shevlin, Michael and McCoy, Selina, Disproportionality in Special Education: Identifying Children with Emotional Behavioural Difficulties in Irish Primary Schools, European Journal of Special Needs Education, 27, (2), 2012, p219 - 235Journal Article, 2012, DOI
• McCoy, Selina, Banks, Joanne and Shevlin, Michael, School matters: how context influences the identification of different types of special educational needs, Irish Educational Studies , 32, (2), 2012, p119 - 138Journal Article, 2012, DOI
• Smyth, Emer and Banks, Joanne, High Stakes Testing and Student Perspectives on Teaching and Learning in the Republic of Ireland, Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 24, (4), 2012, p283 - 306Journal Article, 2012, DOI , TARA - Full Text
• McGuinness, Seamus, Bergin, Adele, Kelly, Elish, McCoy, Selina, Smyth, Emer, Whelan, Adele and Banks, Joanne, Further Education and Training in Ireland: Past, Present and Future, ESRI Research Series, 35, Dublin, ESRI, May, 2014Report, 2014, URL , TARA - Full Text
• Layte, Richard, Banks, Joanne, Walsh, Cathal and McKnight Grainne, Trends in socio-economic inequalities in mortality by sex in Ireland from the 1980s to the 2000s., Irish Journal of Medical Science, 2014Journal Article, 2014, DOI

• Banks, Joanne, Smyth, Emer and McCoy, Selina, Senior Cycle Review: Analysis of discussions in schools on the purpose of senior cycle education in Ireland, 2018Working Paper, URL
• Banks, Joanne, Smyth, Emer and McCoy, Selina, Leaving Certificate Applied Programme Discussion Paper, 2018Working Paper, URL
• Banks, Joanne, Green Paper on Assessment of Learners and Learning: Stakeholder Feedback, Dublin, QQI, November, 2019Report, URL , TARA - Full Text
• Banks, Joanne, Belonging in School: The What, Why and How of Inclusive Education, 2019, Trinity Long Room HubMeetings /Conferences Organised, URL
• Banks, Joanne, Inclusive Education: Lessons from Canada, 2019, School of EducationMeetings /Conferences Organised, URL
• Banks, Joanne, Why the new approach to special education must be monitored, Irish Independent, February 16th, 2017, -Miscellaneous, URL
• McCoy, Selina, Banks, Joanne and Frawley, Denise, Allocation of special needs resources in schools should be based on the research, 2013, -Miscellaneous, URL
• Banks, Joanne, The Leaving Certificate Exam, 2015, -Miscellaneous, URL
• Banks, Joanne, It's Time for Leaving Cert Reform, 2018, -Miscellaneous, URL
• Banks, Joanne and McCoy, Selina, Segregation in an era of inclusion? The role of special classes in Irish mainstream schools, 2018Working Paper, URL
• Banks, Joanne, McCoy, Selina and Frawley, Denise, School-based friendships among students with special educational needs, 2017Working Paper, URL
• Banks, Joanne, Conway, Paul, Darmody, Merike, Leavy, Aisling, Smyth, Emer and Watson, Dorothy, Review of the Droichead Teacher Induction Pilot Programme, 2015Working Paper, URL
• Banks, Joanne and Smyth, Emer , Student Stress and the Leaving Certificate, 2015Working Paper, URL
• Banks, Joanne, How policies formed after WW2 paved the way for farm income inequalities that still exist today, 2018, -Miscellaneous, URL
• Banks, Joanne, Resources for students with disabilities in Irish schools: What do we know?, 2015, -Miscellaneous, URL
• Banks, Joanne, Research with no boundaries, The UCD Humanities Institute @15, A Celebratory Symposium, University College Dublin, 7th December, 2017Conference Paper
• Banks, Joanne, Special Education: What have we learned from Growing Up in Ireland, INTO Special Education Conference, DCU Institute of Education, 11th February, 2017Conference Paper
• Banks, Joanne, 'If we could roll back the time...': Life history perspectives of the agricultural adviser', Remarkable Transformations: Reassessing the history of agriculture in Ireland, Royal Dublin Society, September 9th, 2016Oral Presentation
• Banks, Joanne, An Irish solution ? Developing Inclusive Education in Ireland, 50th Anniversary of Social Research at the ESRI, Economic and Social Research Institute, November 29th, 2016Conference Paper, URL
• Joanne Banks, Effective communication and support for parents of students with disabilities, 16/06/20, 2020Oral Presentation, URL
• Des Aston, Transitions to postschool settings for students with intellectual disabilities in Ireland, IASSIDD, Inclusive Education Special Interest Research Group, International Perspectives on Transitions in Education and Students with Intellectual Disabilities, Online, 16.12.2020, 2020Conference Paper
• Joanne Banks, Generating Momentum Across Campuses Using Universal Design for Learning to Create a Common Discourse, 15 March 2021, In:Darcy McGee Beacon Fellowship Lecture, 2021, Dublin, Frederic FovetMeetings /Conferences Organised, URL
• Joanne Banks, Implementing Inclusive Pedagogy: International Voices , CRISPESH - UDL@Dawson | Virtual Symposium 2021, Montreal, 02/06/21, 2021Oral Presentation, URL
• Brendan Tangney, Aibhín Bray, Ann Devitt, Carina Girvan, Eilís Ní Chorcora, Jen Maguire Donohoe, Joanne Banks, Kevin Sullivan, Lisa Keane, Philip Byrne, Rónán Smith and Cliona Hannon, Trinity Access - Project Overview, TARA, Trinity Access, Trinity College Dublin, December, 2021Report, DOI , TARA - Full Text
• McCoy, Selina; Byrne, Delma; Banks, Joanne, Too much of a good thing? Gender, 'Concerted cultivation' and unequal achievement in primary education, 2010Working Paper, URL , TARA - Full Text

• Title

  Report on the feedback on the QQI Green Paper on Assessment of Learners and Learning
  Summary

  Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) is an independent State agency responsible for promoting quality and accountability in education and training services in Ireland. In March 2018, QQI published a Green Paper on Assessment of Learners and Learning in further education and training, higher education and training and English language education. The Green Paper set out a framework and context for discussing assessment issues with a view to provoking debate about what is being done and what can be improved. The Green Paper focussed on both summative and formative assessment by education providers who are quality assured by QQI. It presented issues of concern in assessment and highlighted a number of ideas about how these issues can be addressed. Between March and December 2018, QQI held a public consultation involving a series of focus groups and workshops in addition to a call for written submissions from a broad range of stakeholders working in the area of assessment. This research provides an analysis of this public consultation using the Green Paper as a framework.
  Funding Agency

  Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI)
  Date From

  2019
  Date To

  2019
• Title

  Pathways to post-secondary settings for students with intellectual disabilities
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund 2019-20 and TCPID
  Date From

  September 2019
  Date To

  September 2020
• Title

  Teaching and Learning practices during COVID: a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) perspective
  Summary

  This primary objective of this project is to capture teachers' experiences of online teaching and learning and student engagement during the current school closures. The key deliverable from this project is a policy brief on barriers, enablers and effective practices to the Working Group on Continuity of Learning in the Department of Education. Importantly, we are structuring the survey to ensure we capture differences across different school types and regions.
  Funding Agency

  TCD COVID-19 rapid response initiative and Learnovate
  Date From

  May 2020
  Date To

  June 2020
• Title

  Blended Learning in Schools: A Universal Design Approach
  Summary

  The purpose of this project is to empower teachers to develop pedagogical competencies for establishing effective and engaging learning experiences in a digital space, whether as part of a blended experience or wholly online. With the consortium partners from Ireland, Greece, Belgium, and Spain, representing a mixture of second-level teachers and education researchers, we will address the common aim of harnessing UDL to achieve 'an EU-wide common understanding of how to make distance, online & blended learning effective, inclusive & engaging' (a strategic priority of the EC Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027). The project will address two key areas: inclusion and digital pedagogical competencies, with the main target group being second-level teachers. The approach will be based on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework (Cast.org), an inclusive approach to teaching and learning that offers all students an equal opportunity to fulfil their potential. This framework offers students different options for accessing, building and internalising learning. It guides teachers to provide multiple means for students to: a) engage with; b) represent; and c) action/express their learning. A key output of this project is to provide a digital overlay to the UDL framework to scaffold teachers' implementation of UDL principles in remote/blended contexts, such as during school closures. The other project outputs will flow from the development of this digital overlay, to provide further layers of supports for teachers to adopt digital learning principles of UDL. These include a self-evaluation tool for teachers to identify aspects of the digital UDL framework with which they require support; an associated learning model to support teachers' creation of digital, UDL activities that include a focus on key skills and competences; Open Educational Resources to scaffold implementation of the framework; and a professional development module which will focus on Area 5 of the DigCompEdu Framework: empowering learners through accessibility and inclusion, differentiation and personalisation. These tools will aim to support teachers and schools to develop inclusive strategies for the digital provision of teaching and learning in their own educational context, with an overarching goal of ensuring high levels of student engagement notwithstanding the mode of content delivery.
  Funding Agency

  Erasmus Plus
  Date From

  2021
  Date To

  2023

Education, Sociology and Social Work, Social Justice,

• Digital Badge in Universal Design for Teaching & Learning 2020
• Darcy McGee Beacon Fellowship Host Award 2021

• Member of the Disability Research Network. Present
• Member of Inclusion in Education and Society Research Group https://www.tcd.ie/Education/research/groups/ies/ Present
• Member of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland Present

• Member of the Mapping Experiences of Pathological Demand Avoidance in Ireland steering group. 2019
• Scientific Committee of the journal L'Integrazione Scolastica e Sociale, Edizioni Erickson (Italy) 2021
• Reviewer for Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice (Taylor and Francis) 2015
• Reviewer for Learning and Individual Differences (Elsevier) 2016
• Reviewer for the European Journal of Special Needs Education (Taylor and Francis) 2020
• Reviewer for the British Educational Research Journal (Wiley) 2015
• Reviewer for the International Journal of Inclusive Education (Taylor and Francis) 2016
• Reviewer for Irish Educational Studies (Taylor and Francis) 2013
• Member of the Growing Up in Ireland Scientific Advisory Group 2019
• Member of the Trinity Access Research Advisory Group. 2020
• Reviewer for Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education (OREE) 2020
• Member of the Steering Group for Review of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2022
• Reviewer for European Research Council 2020