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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.mcevoy @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
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: 
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:

• 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)