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Selina McCoy
Senior Research Officer
selina.mccoy@esri.ie
Dr Selina McCoy, a Senior Research Officer at the ESRI, has worked extensively on key policy-relevant educational issues, spanning primary, second-level and higher education sectors. Findings of this research have been published in such journals as Work, Employment and Society, Higher Education Quarterly, Child Indicators Research and Educational Review.
Her research on second-level education has focused on issues such as the prevalence and impact of part-time work among students, the role of school factors in early school leaving and school attendance, the nature of guidance provision and student experiences of the Leaving Certificate Applied Programme. At primary level, she worked on the report on the Growing Up in Ireland study of 9-Year Olds, and is further examining gender differences in children’s school experiences, teaching approaches taken by primary school teachers and the school experiences of children with special needs.
In a European context, Dr McCoy is also currently working on an ESF Eurocores-funded project examining the impact of primary school factors on student performance in Maths and Science across a range of European countries.
Higher Education access and student experience have been of particular interest, stemming from work on the study Who Went to College in 2004?, examining the profile of students attending higher education. She has since led two large-scale studies of Higher Education in Ireland; the first examining the experiences of young people from non-manual backgrounds in accessing Higher Education, Hidden Disadvantage? A Study on the Low Participation in Higher Education by the Non-Manual Group, and the second examining the costs of participating in Higher Education.
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