Niamh McGuirk
@niamhmcguirk.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Ethical/Intercultural Ed, Dublin City University Institute of Education. Interests include:critical whiteness studies, antiracism education, critical multiculturalism, religion & ed, school ethos, GCE.
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DIVERSITY IN THE TEACHING PROFESSION
1/The annual data report tracking #MinorityEthnic teacher nos 🏴 has been published for 2025. Numbers remain stubbornly low with <2% of all teachers being #BAME. Still <1% are in any form of management position. Key points in the 🧵👇🏽
www.gov.scot/publications...
1/The annual data report tracking #MinorityEthnic teacher nos 🏴 has been published for 2025. Numbers remain stubbornly low with <2% of all teachers being #BAME. Still <1% are in any form of management position. Key points in the 🧵👇🏽
www.gov.scot/publications...
Diversity in the teaching profession: annual data report 2025
Fifth edition of an annual publication which aims to gather and share data relating to the diversity of the teaching profession in order to inform and evaluate future work.
www.gov.scot
September 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
DIVERSITY IN THE TEACHING PROFESSION
1/The annual data report tracking #MinorityEthnic teacher nos 🏴 has been published for 2025. Numbers remain stubbornly low with <2% of all teachers being #BAME. Still <1% are in any form of management position. Key points in the 🧵👇🏽
www.gov.scot/publications...
1/The annual data report tracking #MinorityEthnic teacher nos 🏴 has been published for 2025. Numbers remain stubbornly low with <2% of all teachers being #BAME. Still <1% are in any form of management position. Key points in the 🧵👇🏽
www.gov.scot/publications...
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Irish Educational Studies is seeking to fill 2 co-editor positions.
The new Co-editors will work alongside the editorial team of the journal, lead by General Editor, Prof. Audrey Bryan.
Check out further details here: esai.ie/irish-educat...
Deadline: 5pm, Fri 12th September 2025.
The new Co-editors will work alongside the editorial team of the journal, lead by General Editor, Prof. Audrey Bryan.
Check out further details here: esai.ie/irish-educat...
Deadline: 5pm, Fri 12th September 2025.
Irish Educational Studies: Co-Editor Positions – ESAI: Educational Studies Association of Ireland CLG
The Official journal of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI) https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ries20
esai.ie
August 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Irish Educational Studies is seeking to fill 2 co-editor positions.
The new Co-editors will work alongside the editorial team of the journal, lead by General Editor, Prof. Audrey Bryan.
Check out further details here: esai.ie/irish-educat...
Deadline: 5pm, Fri 12th September 2025.
The new Co-editors will work alongside the editorial team of the journal, lead by General Editor, Prof. Audrey Bryan.
Check out further details here: esai.ie/irish-educat...
Deadline: 5pm, Fri 12th September 2025.
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The photograph that the Israeli government does not want you to see. Taken from the air by journalist colleague @Heidiphotos
August 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The photograph that the Israeli government does not want you to see. Taken from the air by journalist colleague @Heidiphotos
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‘Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die’: News agency staff warn journalists face starvation
‘Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die’: News agency staff warn journalists face starvation
AFP has issued a humanitarian alert as its own journalists in the enclave suffer malnutrition and exhaustion
www.irishtimes.com
July 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
‘Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die’: News agency staff warn journalists face starvation
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WorldWise Global Schools
Permanent Vacancy:
Education Officer – Munster Area.
Find out more : www.worldwiseschools.ie/careers/
Permanent Vacancy:
Education Officer – Munster Area.
Find out more : www.worldwiseschools.ie/careers/
Join Our Team - WorldWise Global Schools
Join WorldWise Global Schools Vacancies WorldWise Global Schools (WWGS) Education Officer – Munster Job Title: WorldWise Global Schools (WWGS) Education Officer – Munster Company: Self Help Africa Loc...
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July 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
WorldWise Global Schools
Permanent Vacancy:
Education Officer – Munster Area.
Find out more : www.worldwiseschools.ie/careers/
Permanent Vacancy:
Education Officer – Munster Area.
Find out more : www.worldwiseschools.ie/careers/
Although developed for the Scottish context, this is great for Irish schools also
Scottish Government has published new interim guidance on addressing racism and racist incidents in schools, developed in collaboration with CRER and fellow members of the Anti-Racism in Education Programme's Racism and Racist Incidents Subgroup.
www.gov.scot/publications...
www.gov.scot/publications...
July 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Although developed for the Scottish context, this is great for Irish schools also
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Applications now open for our new micro-credential in Working with People of Refugee Background, commencing September 4th 2025. This has been developed in partnership with the Irish Refugee Council
Further info at this link:
www.ucd.ie/microcredent...
Further info at this link:
www.ucd.ie/microcredent...
Working with People of Refugee Background - UCD Micro-credentials
This is an introductory module, aimed at people who are relatively new to working with people of refugee background.
www.ucd.ie
June 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Applications now open for our new micro-credential in Working with People of Refugee Background, commencing September 4th 2025. This has been developed in partnership with the Irish Refugee Council
Further info at this link:
www.ucd.ie/microcredent...
Further info at this link:
www.ucd.ie/microcredent...
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In a boxing club w/ ties to Conor McGregor, some non-white and immigrant athletes seek to connect & belong. Crumlin Boxing Club is run by Philip Sutcliffe Snr, McGregor’s boxing coach, a Dublin city councillor who, like McGregor, has voiced anti-immigrant views www.dublininquirer.com/in-a-boxing-...
In a boxing club with ties to Conor McGregor, some non-white and immigrant athletes seek to connect and belong
Crumlin Boxing Club is run by Philip Sutcliffe Snr, McGregor’s boxing coach, a Dublin city councillor who – like McGregor – has voiced anti-immigrant views.
www.dublininquirer.com
July 2, 2025 at 7:31 AM
In a boxing club w/ ties to Conor McGregor, some non-white and immigrant athletes seek to connect & belong. Crumlin Boxing Club is run by Philip Sutcliffe Snr, McGregor’s boxing coach, a Dublin city councillor who, like McGregor, has voiced anti-immigrant views www.dublininquirer.com/in-a-boxing-...
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“The entire 2.1 million population of Gaza is facing prolonged food shortages, with nearly half a million people in a catastrophic situation of hunger, acute malnutrition, starvation, illness and death. This is one of the world’s worst hunger crises, unfolding in real time.”
Gaza – where food aid is a weapon
Military aid: how private guns turned Gaza’s breadline into a killing strip
northwestbylines.co.uk
June 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“The entire 2.1 million population of Gaza is facing prolonged food shortages, with nearly half a million people in a catastrophic situation of hunger, acute malnutrition, starvation, illness and death. This is one of the world’s worst hunger crises, unfolding in real time.”
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'#Religion and #race: the need for an #intersectional approach' by Mareike Riedel & Vanessa Rau
From our Themed Section in the latest #Identities issue, 32.3:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
#intersectionality #ThemedSection
From our Themed Section in the latest #Identities issue, 32.3:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
#intersectionality #ThemedSection
June 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
'#Religion and #race: the need for an #intersectional approach' by Mareike Riedel & Vanessa Rau
From our Themed Section in the latest #Identities issue, 32.3:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
#intersectionality #ThemedSection
From our Themed Section in the latest #Identities issue, 32.3:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
#intersectionality #ThemedSection
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Libraries! I'm filling my dance card for CBF to talk about my new middle grade series, and I have some spaces free - hit me up if you have a horde of children who need entertaining... #libraries #Irishlibraries
June 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Libraries! I'm filling my dance card for CBF to talk about my new middle grade series, and I have some spaces free - hit me up if you have a horde of children who need entertaining... #libraries #Irishlibraries
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Are you a teacher in Northern Ireland?
DCU CREATE is conducting a large-scale mixed-methods study on mental health and burnout among primary and second level teachers in Northern Ireland.
Have your voice heard here ⤵️
DCU CREATE is conducting a large-scale mixed-methods study on mental health and burnout among primary and second level teachers in Northern Ireland.
Have your voice heard here ⤵️
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June 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Are you a teacher in Northern Ireland?
DCU CREATE is conducting a large-scale mixed-methods study on mental health and burnout among primary and second level teachers in Northern Ireland.
Have your voice heard here ⤵️
DCU CREATE is conducting a large-scale mixed-methods study on mental health and burnout among primary and second level teachers in Northern Ireland.
Have your voice heard here ⤵️
Final call! Are you are teacher educator (early years, primary, secondary, third level, FET) in Ireland? Share your perspectives!
Our survey will close in two weeks. We'd love to hear your perspectives on racism and anti-racism in teacher education in Ireland. Scan the code or click the link if you are involved in this area at any level. Please share!
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June 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Final call! Are you are teacher educator (early years, primary, secondary, third level, FET) in Ireland? Share your perspectives!
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I read that children 6-12 are more likely to be killed in Gaza because they’re too big to be carried, and not as fast as children 12+, and I can’t stop thinking about it. We have children running for their lives on the regular so much so that there are patterns as to who survives.
May 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I read that children 6-12 are more likely to be killed in Gaza because they’re too big to be carried, and not as fast as children 12+, and I can’t stop thinking about it. We have children running for their lives on the regular so much so that there are patterns as to who survives.
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The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has condemned the continued obstruction of humanitarian aid to Gaza, urging the international community to pressure Israel to allow immediate and sustained access for essential food and medical supplies. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Gaza: UN Child Rights Committee condemns mass starvation of children amid aid blockades
GENEVA - The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child condemned the continued obstruction of humanitarian aid to Gaza, urging the international community to pressure Israel to allow immediate and sust...
www.ohchr.org
May 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has condemned the continued obstruction of humanitarian aid to Gaza, urging the international community to pressure Israel to allow immediate and sustained access for essential food and medical supplies. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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Are you disillusioned with the way you’re expected to teach?
Keen to centre care over compliance?
Trying to move from traditional to transformative teaching?
“Education As Liberation” will explore strategies to disrupt systems of oppression
FREE ONLINE EVENT
#edusky
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Keen to centre care over compliance?
Trying to move from traditional to transformative teaching?
“Education As Liberation” will explore strategies to disrupt systems of oppression
FREE ONLINE EVENT
#edusky
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
May 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Are you disillusioned with the way you’re expected to teach?
Keen to centre care over compliance?
Trying to move from traditional to transformative teaching?
“Education As Liberation” will explore strategies to disrupt systems of oppression
FREE ONLINE EVENT
#edusky
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Keen to centre care over compliance?
Trying to move from traditional to transformative teaching?
“Education As Liberation” will explore strategies to disrupt systems of oppression
FREE ONLINE EVENT
#edusky
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Our survey will close in two weeks. We'd love to hear your perspectives on racism and anti-racism in teacher education in Ireland. Scan the code or click the link if you are involved in this area at any level. Please share!
dcusurveys.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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May 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Our survey will close in two weeks. We'd love to hear your perspectives on racism and anti-racism in teacher education in Ireland. Scan the code or click the link if you are involved in this area at any level. Please share!
dcusurveys.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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BREAKING: At least 140 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Sunday, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tgirl1
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tgirl1
May 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
BREAKING: At least 140 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Sunday, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tgirl1
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tgirl1
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Come join the team @marinoinstitute.bsky.social
#JobFairy
📌Senior Lecturer & Head of Department of Policy & Practice
📌 Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics (IFP)
Application details:
www.mie.ie/en/about_us/... #IrishJobs #Vacancies #edchatie
#JobFairy
📌Senior Lecturer & Head of Department of Policy & Practice
📌 Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics (IFP)
Application details:
www.mie.ie/en/about_us/... #IrishJobs #Vacancies #edchatie
May 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Come join the team @marinoinstitute.bsky.social
#JobFairy
📌Senior Lecturer & Head of Department of Policy & Practice
📌 Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics (IFP)
Application details:
www.mie.ie/en/about_us/... #IrishJobs #Vacancies #edchatie
#JobFairy
📌Senior Lecturer & Head of Department of Policy & Practice
📌 Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics (IFP)
Application details:
www.mie.ie/en/about_us/... #IrishJobs #Vacancies #edchatie
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🚨**Deadline Extended***
By request, we’re adding a week to our Bloomsday competition. Deadline extended to Friday May 23, high noon! Please share. #reading #writing #Bloomsday #speirgorm #edusky
By request, we’re adding a week to our Bloomsday competition. Deadline extended to Friday May 23, high noon! Please share. #reading #writing #Bloomsday #speirgorm #edusky
May 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
🚨**Deadline Extended***
By request, we’re adding a week to our Bloomsday competition. Deadline extended to Friday May 23, high noon! Please share. #reading #writing #Bloomsday #speirgorm #edusky
By request, we’re adding a week to our Bloomsday competition. Deadline extended to Friday May 23, high noon! Please share. #reading #writing #Bloomsday #speirgorm #edusky
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In collaboration with the NEU @neunion.bsky.social, our brand-new toolkit is here to support primary school educators in embedding these vital themes across the curriculum.
Download our Magnifying Magnificent Muslims toolkit today! bit.ly/3GIhJdz
#NEU #TeachingToolkit #EDI
Download our Magnifying Magnificent Muslims toolkit today! bit.ly/3GIhJdz
#NEU #TeachingToolkit #EDI
May 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
In collaboration with the NEU @neunion.bsky.social, our brand-new toolkit is here to support primary school educators in embedding these vital themes across the curriculum.
Download our Magnifying Magnificent Muslims toolkit today! bit.ly/3GIhJdz
#NEU #TeachingToolkit #EDI
Download our Magnifying Magnificent Muslims toolkit today! bit.ly/3GIhJdz
#NEU #TeachingToolkit #EDI
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Opportunity for a post-doctoral researcher working at @dcu-conflict.bsky.social and Ulster University on the North-South Research Programme, about the all-Ireland economy. Applications by 30th May
www.dcu.ie/conflict-ins...
www.dcu.ie/conflict-ins...
Opportunity for post-doctoral researcher | conflict-institute
www.dcu.ie
May 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Opportunity for a post-doctoral researcher working at @dcu-conflict.bsky.social and Ulster University on the North-South Research Programme, about the all-Ireland economy. Applications by 30th May
www.dcu.ie/conflict-ins...
www.dcu.ie/conflict-ins...
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New article! ‘“No race hate here”? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century’ just published online in Irish Historical Studies. Explores Irish attitudes to race and racism, including an ugly spate of racist attacks in Dublin during 1963-64. Open access: doi.org/10.1017/ihs....
‘No race hate here’? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
‘No race hate here’? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century - Volume 48 Issue 174
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May 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
New article! ‘“No race hate here”? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century’ just published online in Irish Historical Studies. Explores Irish attitudes to race and racism, including an ugly spate of racist attacks in Dublin during 1963-64. Open access: doi.org/10.1017/ihs....