Dympna Devine

Dr Devine is a senior lecturer in the School of Education where she is Director of the Structured PhD programme and Chair of post-graduate studies.  She  lectures in the areas of sociology of education, sociology of childhood and qualitative research methods.  Chair of the Egalitarian World Initiative  (EWI)research cluster on Children's Rights, she has been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship to  NOSEB, the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, where she has been appointed as external examiner for research degrees.  She has published nationally and internationally in the areas of Childhood Studies and Children's Welfare; Migration, ethnicity and schooling; Gender and Education Management and School Effectiveness and Improvement.  She is  General Editor of 'Irish Educational Studies' (Routledge/Taylor and Francis) one of only 100 journals included in the 'Education and Educational Research' Category of the Thomson social sciences citation index.  A member of the international advisory board of the journal 'Children and Society' (Blackwell publishers), she is  also  a peer reviewer for a number of other international journals including Childhood, Childhoods Today, Ethnography and Education, International Studies in the Sociology of Education, Critical  Studies in Education and the International Journal of School Effectiveness and Improvement.  She has been lead applicant in a number of European based proposals (Eurocores, ECRP, FP7, Norface  on Children and Migration.  She is an invited expert peer reviewer for the European Science Foundation (ESF) for the period 2008 - 2009.