My guest in this, the final episode of the ‘Let’s Talk About Sociology of Education’ podcast is Professor Andrew Loxley from the School of Education in Trinity College, Dublin. Andrew is the Director for undergraduate programmes in School of Education and he is also the Director of the Doctor of Education programme in Trinity. Andrew is one of the many colleagues I work with in the School of Education and he was also my doctorate supervisor in TCD and a wonderful mentor to me over the past fifteen years. Andrew and I have taught on the Sociology of Education and Research Methods modules and we ..read more

My guest in this episode is Dr. Rose Dolan, Associate Professor and Teacher Educator in the Department of Education in Maynooth University. Rose led the postgraduate initial teacher education programme from 2003 to 2016 in Maynooth University and is currently the programme leader of the Doctor of Education programme in and she also leads the the Teacher Education strands on the M.Ed and the Doctorate. Rose is a qualified Science, Biology and Mathematics teacher and she also worked in the Youth Services prior to becoming a teacher. In this episode of this podcast series Rose gives a nod to a s ..read more

My guests in this episode are Dr. Kathryn Will, Assistant Professor of Literacy education in the University of Maine, Farmington in the USA and Dr. Robin D. Johnston, who is Associate Professor and field based experience coordinator, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, USA. I was very fortunate to meet both Kathryn and Robin a couple of years ago at the Clinical Fellows symposium in the States at the Association of Teacher Education (ATE)  in Atlanta in 2019 and again in Atlantic City in February 2020. Clinical Fellows started in 2015 with the Association of Teacher Educators in the ..read more

My guest in this episode is Professor A. Lin Goodwin. Professor Goodwin is Dean of the Faculty of Education in the University of Hong Kong and was previously the Evenden Professor of Education in Teachers College, Columbia. She is a renowned teacher education expert globally and has researched and published broadly on many aspects of teacher education and related topics. Lin’s research interests include teacher and teacher education, beliefs, identities and development, equitable education and powerful teaching for immigrant and minorities, youth, international analysis, comparisons of teacher ..read more

My guest in this episode is Ms. Chrisdina O’Neill. Chrisdina is a Newly Qualified Teacher, a graduate of the Professional Master of Education (PME) initial teacher education (ITE) programme in the School of Education, University College Cork and she is very proud of her identity as a member of the Travelling community. Chrisdina has been teaching as a newly qualified teacher in her induction year in Doncaster in England. Chrisdina also completed her undergraduate degree in University College Cork, graduating with a honours degree in English and History. She has a very special affinity with Uni ..read more

My guest in this episode is Mr. Alex Murphy. Alex is a Newly Qualified Teacher and a graduate of the Professional Master of Education (PME) initial teacher education (ITE) programme in the School of Education, Trinity College Dublin Alex has been teaching as a newly qualified teacher in his Induction Year in an Educate Together post-primary school in Dublin. His PME research was supervised by Dr. Erika Piazzoli and focused on an examination of the role of the body in a second language classroom. Alex has published his ITE research work recently in the Student Teacher Educational Research (STER ..read more

My guest in this episode is Dr. Aimie Brennan. Aimie is a lecturer in Education Policy and Practice and a Teacher Educator in Marino Institute of Education where she teaches Research Methods and also teaches on the Education Studies programme and the BA programme. Prior to working in Marino Institute of Education, Aimie spent five years teaching in Mary Immaculate College and has taught Sociology to early childhood education, primary, post-primary and Master’s students. Aimie has a PhD in Sociology from University College Cork, which is where she started teaching and tutoring in the Department ..read more

My guest in this episode is Dr. Maria Campbell. Maria is a lecturer and teacher educator in the School of Education in St. Angela’s College in Sligo http://www.stangelas.nuigalway.ie/ where she teaches Sociology of Education (and other modules) and is Director of Graduate programmes. She is also the Southern co-chair of SCoTENS 2019-2022 and is a member of the Ubuntu Assembly (embedding Development Education in 2nd level Initial Teacher Education). Maria is a former primary school teacher and principal. As a newly qualified teacher Maria spent her summers travelling to India, South America, Af ..read more

My guests in this episode are Dr. Rory McDaid and Dr. Garett Campbell from Marino Institute of Education. Dr. Campbell is the project manager for the Migrant Teacher project https://twitter.com/MTPteacher in Marino Institute of Education and he is also the chief executive of Global Schoolroom. Dr. McDaid is the Migrant Teacher project coordinator and he is a senior lecturer in Sociology of Education in Marino Institute of Education where he is also Head of Policy and Practice. In this episode we discuss The Migrant Teacher project. The Migrant Teacher project supports immigrant internationall ..read more

My guests in this episode are Dr. Gavin Murphy, Dr. Declan Fahie and Bella Fitzpatrick. Dr. Gavin Murphy is an Assistant Professor in Education in the School of Education in Trinity College Dublin. As a post primary school teacher Gavin worked as a languages teacher. He was introduced to Sociology of Education both during his initial teacher education and before that, while studying languages, when he studied sociolinguistics. This sensitised him to the idea of questioning ‘taken for granted assumptions’. He mentions Mills, who invites us in our sociological imagination to make the familiar s ..read more