SCoTENS award for Diane McClelland

Stranmillis University College researcher and lecturer Diane McClelland has received a research award from the Standing Conference on Teacher Education North and South (SCoTENS), in conjunction with Maynooth University’s Dr Leah O’Toole.

Both led research teams from each institution in a cross-border collaborative project entitled Contested Childhoods Across Borders and Boundaries. The research examined how ideas of children and childhood shaped education in the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland following partition in 1921.

The project was named joint winner of the John Coolahan Award 2022, for projects considered to be most in line with the values and ideals SCoTENS.

The research teams received their award on an online event on 15 March 2022. Diane was presented with her certificate in person from Stranmillis University College Principal Professor Jonathan Heggarty, and the Director of Research & Scholarship and the Centre for Research in Educational Underachievement (CREU), Dr Noel Purdy.

The final report and journal publication can be downloaded here.