Selina McCoy

Selina is Associate Research Professor in Social Research and joint education research coordinator at the ESRI, and Adjunct Professor at Trinity College Dublin. She has over 25 years of experience with responsibility for research and evaluation projects in the fields of European education, inequality, academic achievement and student development. Selina has experience on a wealth of national and cross-national studies addressing diverse education topics. These include quantitative and qualitative research studies examining school effectiveness, student engagement and achievement, early school leaving, experiences of students with additional needs and the role of digital technologies in education.

For the last 9 years, Selina has been the Irish national expert at the European Commission Independent Experts in Education and Training. Selina is also a member of the 15-member European Commission Expert Group on Quality Investment in Education and Training.

She has published extensively on education topics, including articles in Work, Employment and Society; Higher Education; Educational Review; Distance Education; Research in Social Stratification and Mobility; International Journal of Inclusive Education; Education and Information Technologies; American Behavioral Scientist; British Educational Research Journal; Economics of Innovation and New Technology; and Oxford Review of Education, amongst others.

Among her current projects, Selina is examining the post school pathways of students with additional needs and the impact of the pilot School Inclusion Model to support students with additional needs.