Professor Noirin Hayes

Nóirín Hayes is a leader in ECEC research and continues to conduct and disseminate research pertaining to all aspects of ECEC policy, practice and research. She is a cofounder of the Centre for Social and Educational Research [CSER] and has directed a large number of research projects including the IEA Preprimary Project, an ongoing longitudinal study of 400 Irish children. She was Principal Investigator on the IRCHSS research project ‘Early Childhood Care and Education in Ireland: Towards A Rights-based Policy Approach’ [2007-2010], which included working with a team of three post-graduate students and is Principal Investigator of the Evaluation of Early Childhood Education project within the Tallaght West Child development Initiative. Through her work the CSER has become an internationally recognised centre of excellence in research in early education with links to many universities and research centres. These links have been strengthened recently through the innovative EU Masters in Early Childhood Education and the associated International Masters, both collaborative programmes involving six universities of which DIT is one.

Dorit Deering, B.A., MsC, Phd

Longitudinal research of child development, attachment, parenting, child and adolescent mental health, children as witnesses.

AnnMarie Halpenny, B.A., PhD

Changing childhoods, Child-parent relationships, Researching young children's experiences, Childhood and adversity, Young carers

Phil Keogh, RGN, RSCN, MsC

Social Care Education and Training with a view to developing a new model, developing an innovative training strategy for animation with frail older people in residential and day care settings

Kevin Lalor, B.A., PhD

Current research interests include the needs/views of young people towards delivery of services; experiences of adolescence; youth crime and victimisation; the role of child sexual abuse in HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa.

Máire Mhic Mhathúna, B.A., M.Ed., PhD

Subjects include Early Education, Curriculum, Child Language, Second Language Acquisition and Research Methods. Research interests include Early Education and First and Second Language Acquisition, particularly in relation to the Irish language.

Mairead Seymour, B.A., MsSC, PhD

Youth justice, young offenders, alternatives to custody, crime and homelessness, community reintegration and prisoner reintegration. 

Siobhan Keegan

Lead Researcher on Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative Evaluation and Barnardos Evaluation of Early Years Initiative Project. 

Eimear Goulding

Lead Researcher on Speech & Language Therapy component of Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative Evaluation

  

Postgraduate Research Students:

Jackie Bourke

Siobhan Bradley

Siobhan Keegan

Rachel Kiersey

Helen Lynch

Bernie O'Donoghue-Hynes

Leah O'Toole