Skip to main content

Ms Lesley Emerson

 

BSc (Hons), PGCE, MEd
Lecturer

Room 11
8 College Green
School of Education
Queen’s University Belfast

Tel: +44 (0)28 9097 5927
Fax: +44 (0)28 9097 5066
Email: l.emerson@qub.ac.uk


Leadership Roles: 
Coordinator Social Science PGCE
Coordinator Education Studies (within the PGCE course)
Chair of the ‘Schools Learning and Teaching Committee’ (developing partnership between post-primary schools and initial teacher education)



Teaching: 

Post Graduate Certificate in Education
Methods for Teaching and Learning: Social Sciences; Citizenship Education
Educational Studies: curriculum theory, policy and practice

Masters
Curriculum: Theory, Policy and Practice
Citizenship Education
Education in Northern Ireland (sessions relating to curriculum policy in Northern Ireland)
Curriculum: Theory, Policy and Practice

EdD
Researching Children and Young People in Educational Contexts (session on participatory research methods)

Supervision
Supervise Masters and Doctoral students in areas aligned to research interests


Research/Scholarship

Research/Scholarship Interests: 
Political education; human rights education; citizenship education; education in transitional societies; children’s rights and participation; children’s rights and research processes

Current Research/Scholarship Projects:

  • Youth Suicide Clusters in Northern Ireland (2010), Contact Youth (with Sibbett, C. , Miller, S (Co PIs) and Forbes, T.) (£80,000)
  • Ready to Learn: Children’s Perspectives (2010), Barnardo’s, (with Lundy, L (PI) and Byrne, B.) (£27, 000)
  • Attitudes of Children and Parents to Science Assessment (2009), The Wellcome Trust, (with Murphy, C (PI), Kerr, K and Lundy, L) (£49, 000)
  • Ready to Learn: the Needs of Primary School Children in Disadvantaged Areas, Barnardo’s Northern Ireland (2007/2008) (with Miller, S. and Lundy, L. (co PIs), Connolly, P. and Maguire, L.). (£89 000) - more information here
  • E-consultation with children  Department of Education and Curriculum Council for Examination and Assessment  (2006/7),  Lundy, L and McEvoy, L.. (£16 000) more information here.


Selected Recent Publications:

(please note publications up to 2011 are in my former surname ‘McEvoy’)

  • Lundy, L. and McEvoy, L. (forthcoming) ‘Childhood, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Research: what constitutes a rights-based approach’ in M. Freeman (ed.) Law and Childhood Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • Lundy, L. and McEvoy, L. (2011, forthcoming) Children’s rights and research processes: assisting children to (in)formed views, Childhood
  • Lundy, L.; McEvoy, L. and Byrne, B. (2011, forthcoming) Working with young children as co-researchers: an approach informed by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Early Education and Development 22(3)
  • Lundy, L. and McEvoy, L. (2009) Developing outcomes for education services: a children’s rights-based approach”, Effective Education 1(1) pp.  43-60
  • McEvoy, L. (2007) Beneath the Rhetoric: Policy Approximation and Citizenship Education in Northern Ireland Education, Citizenship and Social Justice 2(2) pp.135-158
  • McEvoy, L. & Lundy, L. (2007) E-consultation with pupils- a rights-based approach to the integration of citizenship education and ICT Technology, Pedagogy and Education 16 (3) pp.305-320
  • McEvoy, L. & Lundy, L. (2007) ‘In the Small Places’: Human Rights Culture, Education and Conflict-Affected Societies. in G. Anthony, K. McEvoy & J. Morison (eds) Judges, Transition and Human Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press pp 495-515
  • McEvoy, L. McEvoy, K. & McConnachie, K. (2006) Reconciliation as a dirty word:  conflict, community relations and education in Northern Ireland Journal of International Affairs 60(1) pp. 81-106


Community Involvement

Member of: 

  • Five Nations Citizenship Education Strategy Group (Northern Ireland)
  • Human Rights Education Forum (Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission)
  • Prison to Peace: Citizenship Working Group
  • Children in Crossfire Management Board
  • Committee on the Administration of Justice

In addition I work with a number of non-governmental organizations providing advice, support and training including: Civic Link, Amnesty International, British Red Cross, Education for Reconciliation, Centre for Global Education, Unite against Hate, British Council

I have also been involved in developing a number of curriculum publications to support teaching and learning in citizenship education including:

  • From Prison to Peace: learning from the experience of political ex-prisoners Community Foundation for Northern Ireland (2010)
  • Making Human Rights Real Amnesty International (2009)
  • Learning for Life and Work (Books 1, 2, 3) Hodder Education (2007, 2008, 2009)
  • Exploring the Criminal Justice System Northern Ireland Office (2006)
  • Bill of Rights in Schools Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (2005)