Dr Úna Ní Sheanáin
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Peer-reviewed Publications:
Ní Sheanáin, Ú., Call-Cummings, M., & Buttimer, C. (2022). School-based YPAR: Negotiating productive tensions of participation and possibility. Educational Action Research, 30(1), 76-91.
Ní Sheanáin, Ú., Heberle, A.E., Walsh, M. E., Hamilton, A. N., Chung, A. H., & Eells Lutas, V. L. (2021). Experiences of practitioners implementing comprehensive student support in high-poverty schools. Improving Schools, 24(1), 76-93.
Walsh, M. E., Adams, S.M., Ferguson, S., Hearst, M.O., Jones, J.V., Wall, S., Petsagourakis, D., Chung, A., Ní Sheanáin, Ú., & Theodorakakis, M. (2021). Inquiry in Action: Reflections on the Implementation of Best Practices in Child- and Family-Focused University–Community Partnerships. Journal of Education, 201(1), 42-53.
Conference Presentations:
'Complex Classrooms, Multiple Methods, Firm Findings: Integrating Participatory Action Research, Constructivist Grounded Theory and Visual Research Methods', [Paper presentation] Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI) Conference: April 2026, University of Galway, Ireland
‘Alternative Epistemologies: Students and Teachers as Co-Researchers, Democratic Classrooms and Arts-based Inquiry’, [Paper presentation] Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA) Annual Conference: June 2018, University of California, San Diego, USA
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Special Interest Group Dissertation Award 2018: ‘Participatory Action Research exploring Critical Interculturalism in an Immersion Language Setting’ [Paper presentation], AERA Annual Meeting, April 2018, New York, USA
‘Supporting the Whole Child: An Evidence-Based Student Support Model’[Paper presentation], Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development ASCD Empower 18 Conference, March 2018, Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC), Boston, USA
‘Idirchultúrachas agus Gaelscolaíocht: Interculturalism and Irish-Language Education’ [Paper presentation], Colloque du CCERBAL: Canadian Centre for Studies and Research on Bilingualism and Language Planning Conference: Bilingual from Birth: Process, Pedagogy and Policy, Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (OLBI): April 2016, University of Ottawa, Canada
‘A Classroom-Based Participatory Action Research Approach for Developing Critical Interculturalism in a Primary Gaelscoil’ [Paper presentation], Research Colloquium in Language and Literacies Education, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education: February 2016, Toronto, Canada
‘Action Research: Instruments and Methods’ [Paper presentation], Researching with Children and Young People Symposium, (Co-organiser and Keynote Presenter): June 2014, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
‘PAR for the Course: Combining Community and University Research’ [Paper presentation], Action-Research-Go (ARGO) Conference: May 2013, Galway, Ireland Participatory Action Research: Dilemmas, Data and Dialogue, All Ireland Doctoral Conference in Education: April 2013, University College Dublin, Ireland
‘Language and Intercultural Education: Changing Times, Changing Practices, Changing Policy?’ [Paper presentation] Educational Studies Association of Ireland Conference: March 2013, Limerick, Ireland ‘Arts Implications: Action Research with Children and Young People’, Queens University Belfast, (Invited Speaker): Jan 2013, Belfast, Northern Ireland
‘Classroom PAR/tnerships: Children and Teachers Researching Interculturalism’ [Paper presentation] Mary Immaculate College of Education, University of Limerick International Research Summer School: June 2011, Limerick, Ireland
‘Idirchultúrachas agus Gaeloideachas’ [Paper presentation], An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta (COGG), An Choiste Thuaidh Theas / North South Standing Committee Conference: Jan 2011, Dublin, Ireland
