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gmsainz.bsky.social
Researching on #Education #ChildRights & #SustainableFutures | Assistant Professor at UCD | Co-I: @CSLstudyUCD | Director of #VARiE Group - Voice, Agency and Rights in Education | She/her |
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Delving into an entirely new topic and doing a literature review, performed with an example (on hospital ethnography) www.raulpacheco.org/2021/03/delv... #RPVSky Are you wondering how should you undertake a full-fledged literature review? Fear not. In this post, I walk you through the process.

Happy pride from our rainbow garden 🌈 #LoveIsLove

If we choose not to act, Or fail to adapt, Then suffer we will. #ShowYourStripes

New policy brief on PublicPolicy.ie by @seaneens.bsky.social, @dympnadevine.bsky.social adevine.bsky.social, @gmsainz.bsky.social, Olga Ioannidou & Jennifer Symonds @cslstudyucd.bsky.social : “Wellbeing in Children’s School Lives – The Importance of Belonging”. publicpolicy.ie/papers/wellb...

Call for colloquium papers: "Acknowledge Place and More-than-Human: Conceptualisation of Children and Youth’s Living Spaces in the Anthropocene." Abstracts are due by 25 August. The colloquium will take place online in October.

A must-read for every educational 'experts' (I know a few) who have been eagerly advocating for embedding more AI into the classroom. #dusky #edchatIE time.com/7295195/ai-c...

"A kind person knows that kindness takes multiple forms [...] When we are on the receiving end, we not only get help when we most need it, but also get to know someone better and bear witness to a little miracle." - @drdanielvazquez.bsky.social danielvazquezh.substack.com/p/kindness-i...

God bless @katie-drummond.bsky.social and her team. www.wired.com/how-to-win-a...

Just learnt that the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change is now also calling for a climate agenda beyond decarbonisation, including both defossilisation and detoxification.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲? A new paper reveals educators see sustainability education as key in empowering young people, but what’s needed is implementation in curricula. Our work involves advocating for this vital change: se-ed.org.uk/our-work/cha... #edusky #climate

About 123 million remain forcibly displaced as a result of conflict, violence, persecution and human rights violations.

This isn't a stalled gender revolution. It's a gender counter-revolution. And the most troubling part is that it's younger men and boys the leading charge. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...

⚖️ The upcoming Advisory Opinion on the #climate emergency by the IACtHR can transform lives across the Americas. 🗓️ To learn more about this landmark decision, register now for a webinar next Tuesday, June 10: bit.ly/4kyvxFU @ucs.org @wy4cj.bsky.social @greenpeace.org @earthjustice.org

I received a 30-month jail sentence for nonviolent resistance. Why so harsh? Because protest works | Indigo Rumbelow

When you are teaching, you can't never be sure things will 'click' in your students' minds... you hope they will but can't never be 💯 sure. Then you read their assignments and realise they got it, they absolutely got it! 🥳 A short story of engaged pedagogies working out in Higher Education 🧵

A Toolkit for Educators to Explore Qualitative Data in Schools www.childtrends.org/publications...

👏 Our brilliant student Orla Shiels won the award for best poster presentation at the European Conference on Social Media last week in Portugal. Her research explores the influence of social media platforms on how adolescents develop their identity. @ucddublin.bsky.social #EdChatIE #VARiE

Call for articles: "The role of emotions in youth’s governmentality." For a special issue of YOUNG - the Nordic Journal of Youth Research. Articles are due by 29 August. isawg08.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/c...

A creative way using #LEGO to reflect on the barriers and enablers that minoritised groups have when applying for #NTF #CATE awards. Session led by Julia Reeve. The #T&L #superhero that I am creating has many attributes that I gathered from so many inspiring colleagues #ANTF2025

Our article 'The role of knowledge-rich curricula in promoting deep thinking and complex skill acquisition' is online and free. #EduSky @danielmuijs.bsky.social @timsurma.bsky.social @dylanwiliam.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The contrast with our findings from Ireland about transition from Primary to Post-primary is vert surprising. We can't say too much yet but the report will be available after the summer @cslstudyucd.bsky.social @dympnadevine.bsky.social

New @youthendowmentfund.org.uk Toolkit strand! 📢 NCB is YEF’s Toolkit Evidence and Synthesis Partner, working alongside the Race Equality Foundation and researchers at the Evidence for Policy & Practice Information Centre (@eppicentre.bsky.social) based at @ucl.ac.uk. Find out more below👇

Just added this to my useful data resources spreadsheet. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

🚨 Today, we launch Report 8c from the #CSLstudy, ‘Migration and Ethnicity in Children’s School Lives.’ 🔗 Download the report from our website at: cslstudy.ie/downloads/CS... 🧵 Read about some of the key findings below – ⬇️ 1/20

Equality law scholars/teachers also hate this meme. I spent more than usual class time this year trying to defend the idea that substantive equality should be the goal of constitutionally entrenched equality rights. Hat tip to @jwatsonhamilton.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/josephhe...

“If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you” —Oscar Wilde

If your work aligns with the focus of this book series, we are accepting book proposals on a rolling basis. DM or email me if you have any questions. www.decolonialentanglements.com

Lots of interesting discussions about the role of higher education in navigating (and I would add creating) innovative futures at the @ucdtl.bsky.social Symposium. Happy to be presenting our project on Sustainable Wellbeing.

Thanks to everyone who has already registered for the T-REX Digital Badge: Using Evidence for Wellbeing in Educational Settings We’ve answered some of our FAQs in this video Would you like to participate? Registration is still open! Register ➡️ bit.ly/4bFhdZ5

New paper on PublicPolicy.ie: “Gender in Children’s School Lives” by @dympnadevine.bsky.social, @gmsainz.bsky.social , Olga Ioannidou, Jennifer Symonds & @seaneens.bsky.social. It explores how gender norms shape kids’ primary school experiences. publicpolicy.ie/papers/gende... #Gender #Wellbeing

"After 60 years of gathering hard to find education literature and sharing it broadly, the website could stop being updated ... But without constant curation and updating, so much information will be lost.” @pollywog08.bsky.social #SaveERIC (h/t @paigekowalski.bsky.social)

The first half of this article is incredibly depressing. The second half is a🔥🔥🔥call to arms, set of ideas and a kick in the pants we academics need. We HAVE the power. We CAN fight back! arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

Children’s rights apply online as well as offline, or do they? @sonialivingstone.bsky.social presented at the Annual children’s rights lecture @ Doughty Street Chambers. With young person Nicole Stoilova, Sonia unpacked the opportunities & risks online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y5F...

We worked with our Children’s Research Advisory Group and children from 8 different schools on recommendations for policy makers to guarantee their rights to participate in decisions about climate change in Ireland. You can read our policy brief published by @ucdgearyinst.bsky.social Link below👇🏼

📣#ProfessionalDevelopment opportunity! Really looking 4ward to working with @etbireland.bsky.social primary & post-primary #teachers this Tues!😀There’s still time to sign-up!🤩 @dublincityuni.bsky.social @eileenflynn.bsky.social @skeinpress.bsky.social @oeiny.bsky.social @trionacheile.bsky.social

My recent essay for @cnn.com on the importance of supporting #Education rights for all children. #ChildRights #HumanTrafficking www.cnn.com/world/guest-...

Is it better to teach about sustainability issues (causes and consequences), or should we focus on the solutions? We had a great discussion with students about this in the Sustainable Wellbeing I'm Higher Education podcast 👇🏼 #EduChatIE #TeachSDGs #Education #Sustainability

A massive and urgent challenge for educators and teachers👇🏼

Delighted to see @ioe.bsky.social Blog: Embedding Disaster and climate education within curricula blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/03/... clearly there is a need for teaching disaster education in schools, and #Citizenshipeducation is the place to do it & to do this with inclusion in mind.

🚀 Exciting Legal Internship Opportunity with our team! 🚀 🗣️ Help us spread the word. 📣 🌍 ⚖️ 🌱 Join the @cielorg.bsky.social' Human Rights & Climate Change Team as a Legal Intern this autumn 2025, based in Geneva, Switzerland🇨🇭! All info: www.ciel.org/about-us/abo... More details in 🧵 🔽

I spoke with Miranda Prynne on the #TimesHigherEducation podcast about #schoolishness, #learning, #ungrading, #assessment. timeshighered.podbean.com/e/campus-pod...

As I read the news of #Gaza today, I remembered Michael Apple's tasks for critical scholars: 1. Bear witness to injustices 2. Engage in critical analysis 3. Act as critical secretaries to those marginalised and suffering injustices ... while I work on a review of this book for @hrer.bsky.social