7th International Research

Methods Summer School

(IRMSS) 2018
Provisional Programme

Mary Immaculate College, Limerick,

Ireland
25th – 26th May, 2018
IRMSS PROGRAMME
 FRIDAY MAY 25TH 2018
8:30 REGISTRATION FOR IRMSS 2018
9:00 LITERATURE MAPPING EXERCISE – DES CARSWELL
VENUE ROOM T1.18
10:00 KEYNOTE – PROF EUGENE WALL
TITLE: “EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN IRELAND”
VENUE ROOM T1.18
11:00 BREAK
11:30 Dr Mary Roche, Dr Máirín Glenn, Dr Caitriona McDonagh, Dr Bernie Sullivan
TITLE: “BLURRING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE: WHAT DOES
THIS MEAN IN REAL LIFE?”
VENUE ROOM T1.18
12:30 Media and Communications Studies Showcase - Film
VENUE ROOM T1.18
13:00 LUNCH (MIC Canteen)
14:00 Clara Hoyne and Dr Tiffany Creswell Khulud Aljohani
Suzanne Egan “Comprehension of English
“Exploring traditional “From ABD to EdD: A new idioms by Arabic learners of
parental roles in early pathway to completion” English with reference to
childhood” sociolinguistic factors”
VENUE T1.18 T1.17 T1.16
14:30 Ruth Bourke Santhi Corcoran MaryAnne Lowney
“Policy, theoretical and “Leadership in Irish schools Slattery
methodological in the context of “An Investigation into
considerations in case multicultural classrooms: creating and Sustaining a
study research on Interviews with school Mental Health Promoting
networks of DEIS principals on managing School”
schools. “ diversity”
VENUE T1.18 T1.17 T1.16
15:00 Dr Ann Higgins and Ruth Dr Cathal Og O’Sullivan Dr Gwen Moore
Bourke “ Ideology, Curriculum and
Bedford Row Family “Re-imagining professional Higher Music Education:
Project: Holding the development for Irish Examining the
Suffering” physical education Structure/Agency Dialectic
teachers” for Learning and Teaching”
VENUE T1.18 T1.17 T1.16
15:30 BREAK
16:00 KEYNOTE – PROF. JENNIFER GORE (UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE, NEW SOUTH WALES,
AUSTRALIA)
TITLE: “IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF TEACHING: EVIDENCE FROM DIVERSE
METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES”
VENUE ROOM T1.18
17:00 RECEPTION FOR PARTICIPANTS AT IRMSS 2018
 SATURDAY MAY 26TH 2018
9:00 KEYNOTE – PROF HENRY BRAUN
TITLE: “STATISTICAL VEXATIONS: CAUSAL INFERENCE FROM OBSERVATIONAL
STUDIES”
VENUE ROOM T1.18
10:00 Brighid Golden Dr Richard Bowles and Dr Anne O’Dwyer
Critical Thinking as a Response to “Insights from a coaching community of
Global Challenges practice: An un-orthodox approach to coach
education”
VENUE T1.18 T1.17
10.30 Breed Murphy Chloe Beatty

“Exploring academic achievements of “Exploring the Impact of Interactive Screen

students in multigrade classrooms: Time on Young Irish Children's Cognitive and
longitudinal analysis of Growing Up in Socio-emotional Development
Ireland Child Cohort data.”
VENUE T1.18 T1.17
11:00 BREAK
11:30- Dr Fionnuala Tynan and Dr Margaret Caitlin Neachtain
12:00 Nohilly

“Cutting through the Crap: What “Generating individualised learning goals

wellbeing actually means to teachers from a learner corpus in Initial Teacher
in an Irish context” Education (ITE)”
VENUE T1.18 T1.17
12:00- ALUMNUS KEYNOTE- MIRIAM HAMILTON
13:00 “MIND THE GAP-FROM THE LAND OF THE PHD TO THE REAL WORLD RESEARCH
SPACE”
VENUE ROOM T1.18
13:00 LUNCH
14:00 Gyorgy Nagy Derbhile de Paor
“Towards Intercultural Competence: “A Triple tale: The pied piper. The Wizard of
Models and Frameworks for Oz and the Emperor’s new Clothes”
Developing ESOL Learners’
Intercultural Competence in Ireland”
VENUE T1.18 T1.17
14:30 KEYNOTE – PROF MARIE PARKER-JENKINS
“EDUCATION IN TIMES OF FEAR: ISSUES OF EQUALITY, IDENTITY AND BELONGING”
VENUE ROOM T1.18
15:30 BREAK
16:00 3-MINUTE THESIS COMPETITION
16:45 CONCLUDING REMARKS
17:00 END