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Catriona O’Toole
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Associate Professor in Education, @maynoothuniversity.ie 🎓 Chartered Psychologist PSI | Putting compassion at the ❤️of education 🌟Researching trauma-informed practice, school attendance, wellbeing 👊 Marathon 🏃‍♀️ Free 🇵🇸
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · Mar 18
📢Call for Papers: we're looking for original research articles exploring how wellbeing is conceptualised, enacted & experienced in schools-tensions, ambiguities, equity, student voice etc

Advancing Equity, Voice, and Sustainability in School Wellbeing emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...
Advancing Equity, Voice, and Sustainability in School Wellbeing
This special issue examines how wellbeing is conceptualized, enacted, and experienced in schools, with a focus on equity, student voice, and challenges of embedding wellbeing into school practices. It...
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Reposted by Catriona O’Toole
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Minister of Education and Youth, Helen McEntee, welcomes the commencement of the new Professional Doctorate in Educational Psychology at MU. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
@maynoothuniversity.ie @catrionaotoole.bsky.social @majelladempsey.bsky.social @allinstitutemu.bsky.social
Photo of a group students who joined the Professional Doctorate in Educational Psychology at Maynooth University, Department of Education.
October 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Wonderful to welcome our first group of trainee educational psychologists to @maynoothuniversity.ie @mupsychology.bsky.social @maynootheducation.bsky.social
And what a fab group they are!
georginasherlock.bsky.social georginasherlock.bsky.social @georginasherlock.bsky.social · Sep 22
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Congratulations to the inaugural cohort of the Professional Doctorate in Educational Psychology at Maynooth University! Wishing all the students the very best in their studies.
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September 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Listen to Dr Catriona O'Toole, on Radio 1 discussing her research on school avoidance. You can listen back to her insightful discussion here-
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... @catrionaotoole.bsky.social @majelladempsey.bsky.social @georginasherlock.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie
School Avoidance & Book Tips
Association Professor of Psychology in Education Dr Catriona O’Toole advises on how to manage school avoidance, and librarian Darina Molloy has book tips for school avoiders and school starters.
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August 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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‼️Join us for re-launch of the @INSA_Network Webinar Series, kicking off with:

🗣️Prof Chris Kearney, speaking on Theory of Change and #SchoolAttendance/#absenteeism

🗓️Thurs 26th June, 6pm UTC

🔗Register for free:
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June 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Look forward to reading this paper- Reflections of ‘Doing’ Research that Involves Trauma: A Methodological Guide and Framework for Researchers- journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reflections of ‘Doing’ Research that Involves Trauma: A Methodological Guide and Framework for Researchers - Kathomi Gatwiri, Lynne McPherson, Antonia Canosa, Kylie Day, Samara Kim, 2025
This paper examines the experiences of four researchers engaged in a study with young people residing in therapeutic residential care facilities in an Australia...
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June 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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As the Edu Minister announced new initiatives to support school attendance, we were delighted to have leading academic, Lisa McKay Brown from @UniMelb present her project on attendance & participation in 🇦🇺 schools @maynootheducation.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie
Lisa McKay Brown presenting on the MTSS (multi-tiered system of support) model to support student attendance and participation
May 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Delighted to receive a Teaching & Learning Fellowship with
@emmaefarrell.bsky.social for our project: Sense & Sensitivity - Exploring emotionally-complex topics in higher ed.

Wonderful collaboration across
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@mupsychology.bsky.social
Framed Certificate of Fellowship Award
May 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Great few days in Berlin at the annual @ecer-eera.bsky.social ECER conference planning meeting with wonderful colleagues across Europe. Two networks led by @maynootheducation.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie people. NW8 Health & Wellbeing Ed by @catrionaotoole.bsky.social & NW3 Curriculum by me!
May 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Great start to the #Trieste 🇮🇹 half marathon at the wkend! After a minutes silence for the pope we had Pavarotti 🎶 to psych us up 🏃‍♀️
May 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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🚨Excited to announce we are recruiting a Professor in Educational Psychology at @maynoothuniversity.ie @maynootheducation.bsky.social @MUpsychdept to lead our new Professional Doctorate. Four other permanent f/t and p/t posts in EdPsych also advertised.

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April 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
catrionaotoole.bsky.social
📢Call for Papers: we're looking for original research articles exploring how wellbeing is conceptualised, enacted & experienced in schools-tensions, ambiguities, equity, student voice etc

Advancing Equity, Voice, and Sustainability in School Wellbeing emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...
Advancing Equity, Voice, and Sustainability in School Wellbeing
This special issue examines how wellbeing is conceptualized, enacted, and experienced in schools, with a focus on equity, student voice, and challenges of embedding wellbeing into school practices. It...
emeraldgrouppublishing.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
catrionaotoole.bsky.social
Our Professional Doctorate in Educational Psychology is now open for applications!!

Apply by March 26th: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/psychology/o...

@maynoothuniversity.ie
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March 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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🚨 Announcing our new Doctorate in Educational Psychology at @MaynoothUniversity jointly offered by @MU_Education and @MUpsychdept

Opening for applications very soon!!!

Bursaries will be provided, supported by @Education_Ire and NEPS 🤩

www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-soci...
Minister McEntee welcomes new MU Professional Doctorate in
Minister for Education Helen McEntee, has welcomed the announcement that MU is to offer a new three-year Professional Doctorate programme in Educational Psychology from September 2025, to support a
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March 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
catrionaotoole.bsky.social
Restricting phone use alone doesn’t support student wellbeing

School phone policies and their association with mental wellbeing, phone use, and social media use (SMART Schools): a cross-sectional observational study - The Lancet Regional Health – Europe www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
School phone policies and their association with mental wellbeing, phone use, and social media use (SMART Schools): a cross-sectional observational study
There is no evidence that restrictive school policies are associated with overall phone and social media use or better mental wellbeing in adolescents. The findings do not provide evidence to support ...
www.thelancet.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Come join our wonderful team!
maijakataliina.bsky.social Maija Salokangas @maijakataliina.bsky.social · Jan 6
📣 Come work with us at Maynooth University @maynoothuni.bsky.social

Post: Assistant Professor in Teacher Education with specialism in Digital Literacy

Closing date: 16th of February 2025

Apply: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
January 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Just want to amplify this big time 💞
taryndevere.bsky.social Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · Dec 23
Lots of love to people with messy families and missing loved ones, to people having Christmas in prison, people waking up Xmas morning in temporary accommodation or on the streets, people living in deprivation, or with loved ones with addiction issues. My love to you all this Christmas ❤️
news.rte.ie RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · Dec 23
Christmas can be a tough time of year for many people. Always remember though, there is support out there if you need it.
December 23, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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Delighted to have our research on #recoveryoriented approaches in mental health care, published this month. Tnx to @researchireland.bsky.social for funding & collaborator-Kyrie Farm

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Designing recovery-oriented care: a qualitative study to inform service design at Kyrie Therapeutic Farm in Ireland | Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Designing recovery-oriented care: a qualitative study to inform service design at Kyrie Therapeutic Farm in Ireland
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December 23, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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Our book Trauma-informed practice in Montessori Classrooms is out now 🤩
With Bernadette & Stephen Phillips and Sinead McGilloway

www.routledge.com/Trauma-Infor...
Trauma-Informed Practice in Montessori Classrooms: An Essential Guide for Students and Teachers
Trauma-Informed Practice in Montessori Classrooms provides important historical and contemporary evidence of the potential for Montessori schools to act as “healing” environments for children and youn...
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December 23, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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My paper with @taraciric.bsky.social on School Attendance

Ensuring that students are listened to, believed, and empowered to actively participate in shaping their educational experiences, we can create successful educational pathways for ALL students

www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...
Frontiers | Compassion, collaboration and cultural-responsiveness: insights on promoting successful pathways through education for students who face school attendance barriers
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December 23, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water.

Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
Cameron, Ariz. Living on one of the largest swaths of land in America without electrical power, Thomasina Nez's entire life is a scramble to complete basic tasks. To take a hot shower, she must wait for buckts of water to come to a boil on a small propane stove outside her wood framed roundhouse. To make meals, she relies mostly on canned goods because unfridgerated produce rots qucikly in the Arizona heat. Its a struggle to stay warm at night, because she refuses to use her coal-powered heate after its fumes killed her two dogs. A fierce battle for electric power is being waged across the nation, and Nez is one of thousands of people who have wound up on the losing end. Amid a boom in data acenters, the energy intensive warehouses that run supercomputers for Big Tech companies, Arizona is racing to increase electricity production. In February, the state utility board approved an 8 percent rate hike to bolster power infrastructure throughout the state, where data centers are popping up faster than almost anywhere in the US But it rejected a plan to bring electricity to parts of the Navajo Nation land, concluding that electric consumers should not be asked to foot the nearly $4 million bill.
December 23, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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Even some of the most educated ppl have NO idea what AI is doing to energy use & the environment. My husband works in EPA permitting of factories & energy facilities, and they are getting SO many requests for permitting data centers. We're gonna AI ourselves into rapid environmental collapse.
disabilitystor1.bsky.social Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · Dec 23
I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water.

Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
Cameron, Ariz. Living on one of the largest swaths of land in America without electrical power, Thomasina Nez's entire life is a scramble to complete basic tasks. To take a hot shower, she must wait for buckts of water to come to a boil on a small propane stove outside her wood framed roundhouse. To make meals, she relies mostly on canned goods because unfridgerated produce rots qucikly in the Arizona heat. Its a struggle to stay warm at night, because she refuses to use her coal-powered heate after its fumes killed her two dogs. A fierce battle for electric power is being waged across the nation, and Nez is one of thousands of people who have wound up on the losing end. Amid a boom in data acenters, the energy intensive warehouses that run supercomputers for Big Tech companies, Arizona is racing to increase electricity production. In February, the state utility board approved an 8 percent rate hike to bolster power infrastructure throughout the state, where data centers are popping up faster than almost anywhere in the US But it rejected a plan to bring electricity to parts of the Navajo Nation land, concluding that electric consumers should not be asked to foot the nearly $4 million bill.
December 23, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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Inspectorate report on attendance strategies used in schools:
“It is not yet apparent that strategies to promote attendance…place sufficient emphasis on the critical link between high-quality, responsive, teaching and consistently good school attendance,”

www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
Numbers missing 20 school days or more in disadvantaged areas of 'particular concern'
Partial attendance at school can be a precursor towards more significant issues that may lead to early school leaving
www.irishexaminer.com
December 19, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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Full article: Reporting guidelines for qualitative research: a values-based approach - Braun & Clarke
December 15, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Reposted by Catriona O’Toole
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I'm launching a new career as a demotivational speaker (thanks to everyone who got in touch this morning - it's nice to hear it strikes a chord) www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Patrick Freyne: I am becoming a demotivational speaker – let’s all have an averagely productive December
I keep meeting people who are extremely burned out. I meet them so often that I’m beginning to think burnout is something that exists by design
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December 14, 2024 at 10:57 AM