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Emer SmythResearch ProfessorDr. Emer Smyth is programme coordinator of Education Research at the ESRI. Her areas of interest include education, school to work transitions, comparative methodology, and gender issues. Emer has conducted a number of studies on the effects of schooling contexts on student outcomes, including Do Schools Differ? She is currently leading the Post-Primary Longitudinal Study, which has followed a cohort of young people from the first year of second-level education onwards. This study is the first of its kind in the Irish context, and has yielded insights into important processes such as the transition to second-level education, the factors influencing Junior Certificate examination, and gender and social differentiation in educational outcomes. Studies published to date have included Moving Up, Pathways through the Junior Cycle, Gearing up for the Exam? and No Way Back? The Dynamics of Early School Leaving. The cohort of students involved in this study is now being followed to look at these young people’s post-school pathways. Emer has a strong interest in comparative research on education and labour market issues. She has recently acted as co-ordinator to a FP7-funded comparative project on religion and primary schooling across Europe, Religious Education in a Multicultural Society (REMC). She is currently working on a European project on school effectiveness at primary level funded through the Eurocores programme. She has been actively involved in the EQUALSOC research network, engaging in comparative research on gender segregation, among other topics. Emer is on the management team of the Growing Up in Ireland study. She is co-editor of the journal, Irish Educational Studies. |
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