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Courses
Courses
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University Life
University Life
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About University of Galway
About University of Galway
Since 1845, University of Galway has been sharing the highest quality teaching and research with Ireland and the world. Find out what makes our University so special – from our distinguished history to the latest news and campus developments.
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Colleges & Schools
Colleges & Schools
University of Galway has earned international recognition as a research-led university with a commitment to top quality teaching across a range of key areas of expertise.
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Research & Innovation
Research & Innovation
University of Galway’s vibrant research community take on some of the most pressing challenges of our times.
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Business & Industry
Guiding Breakthrough Research at University of Galway
We explore and facilitate commercial opportunities for the research community at University of Galway, as well as facilitating industry partnership.
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Alumni & Friends
Alumni & Friends
There are 128,000 University of Galway alumni worldwide. Stay connected to your alumni community! Join our social networks and update your details online.
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Community Engagement
Community Engagement
At University of Galway, we believe that the best learning takes place when you apply what you learn in a real world context. That's why many of our courses include work placements or community projects.
Education, Culture and Society
This research cluster is concerned with issues of inequity and social justice at school, higher education, and initial teacher education levels, relating to social class, ethnicity, gender, sexualities, language, and disability.
We engage in critical interrogation of key concepts, debates, and issues in educational policy, practice, and theory. Such concepts include diversity, performativity, creativity, educational disadvantage and privilege, widening participation, and inclusion. Our work in this area draws on the foundational disciplines of sociology, psychology, history and philosophy and is informed by current research.
Research in this cluster continues to impact national and international policy, practice and research. Our cluster is engaged in research supported by national and international funding bodies.
Members:
Research Projects:
Access to Post-primary Teaching (APT)
Principle Investigator(s): Dr Manuela Heinz, Dr. Elaine Keane
Project Partners: School of Education, NUI Galway and St. Angela’s College Sligo. Project website
Funded by: HEA
Activating Social Empathy
Activating Social Empathy is an interactive, student-focused, social and emotional learning programme, which was developed by Dr Ciara Boylan and Professor Pat Dolan in 2017 as a resource tool for post-primary schools, forming part of the Junior Cycle Wellbeing Programme. The programme is currently being evaluated formally through a large-scale randomised control trial in Irish post-primary schools. The evalation is a joint initiative between the Child and Family Research Centre and the School of Education. Project Website
Principle Investigator(s): Dr. Niamh Flynn, Emer Davitt
Project Partners: School of Education and UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway
Big Ideas for Better Schools: Leading 'big issue' transformation in schools - Diversity, Democracy and Equity
This project aims to co-design and develop school leaders and school staff knowledge and understanding of three core themes - democracy, diversity and equity.
Principle Investigator(s): Prof. Gerry MacRuairc, Dr Manuela Heinz, Dr. Cornelia Connolly
Project Partners: School of Education, NUI Galway (Project lead); Claregalway Community College and schools and universities from Oslo, Krakow, Murcia
Funded by: Erasmus+ (2019-2021)
Bridging Worlds - New Learning Spaces for New Times
This project aims bridge the gap between formal and non-formal learning context and space. While the focus is on all learners, the project has a core objective of enhancing and reimagining the educational infrastructure around learning spaces for marginalised and disadvantaged learners who typically struggle.
Principle Investigator(s): Dr. Cornelia Connolly, Dr. Cliona Murray, Prof. Gerry MacRuairc, Dr Bernadine Brady and Prof. Pat Dolan
Project Partners: School of Education; UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre; Access Centre NUI Galway; Insight Centre for Data Analystics and Foróige
Funded by: Reinvent Ireland (2020)
Life Two
Principle Investigator(s): Dr Manuela Heinz, Dr. Elaine Keane, Prof. Gerry MacRuairc
Project Partners: Centro Studi Villa Montesca, Italy; EGCED Turkey; Universidad San Jorge, Spain; Centre For Educational Initiatives, Bulgaria; EDRA Greece; NUIG, Ireland; EDEX Cyprus; Stichting Reflexion, Netherlands.
Funded by: Erasmus+ (2019-2021)
Schooling at Home
This project captured the perspectives and experiences of Primary and Second-level students and their parents 'schooling at home'. Project Website
Principle Investigator(s): Dr. Niamh Flynn, Emer Davitt, Dr Manuela Heinz, Dr. Elaine Keane, Prof. Gerry MacRuairc
Other 'Education, Culture and Society' projects:
Attract, Transition, Succeed (ATS)‘Attract-Transition-Succeed’: a €1 million PATH3 project aimed at supporting students from underrepresented backgrounds to progress to third level study.
Principle Investigator(s): Dr Paul Flynn
Project Partners: NUI Galway, GMIT, LYIT, IT Sligo
Funded by: HEA
Principle Investigator(s): Dr Manuela Heinz, Dr. Elaine Keane
Funded by: EERA
EERA are funding a philosophy of education season school in Galway for 2 years
Principle Investigator(s): Dr Ian Munday
Funded by: EERA
Principle Investigator(s): Dr Ian Munday
Funded by: Bloomsbury Press
Principle Investigator(s): Dr. Cliona Murray
Project Partners: NUI Galway, University of Nottingham, University of Naples
This project takes the role of the Irish language in the school curriculum as a lens through which to explore the relationship between minority language and identity. The data stemmed from a public consultation on a proposed change in the policy on exemption from the compulsory study of Irish carried out by the research team in 2018/19.
Principle Investigator(s): Dr Naimh Flynn, Dr. Cliona Murray, Ms. Emer Davitt
Project Partners: NUI Galway, Marino Institute of Education.
Funded by: DES
In this project staff and students from the MGO create classroom activities and resources for junior cycle Irish based on material from Bailiúchán na Scol in the National Folklore Collection.
Principle Investigator(s): Ms. Emer Davitt, Breandán MacGearailt
Project Partners: COGG, Tuairisc.ie
Funded by: COGG
In this project staff and students from the MGO create classroom activities and resources for junior cycle Irish based on poems that are on the Irish specification for junior cycle.
Principle Investigator(s): Ms. Emer Davitt, Breandán MacGearailt
Project Partners: COGG, Tuairisc.ie
Funded by: COGG