Dr Martin Brown delivers address to DCU Centre for Engaged Research

EQI Director, Dr Martin Brown, presented the paper 'Towards clarity on the Impact of Educational Networks & Community-Based Evaluation. Lessons to be learned from the Island of Ireland' to the DCU CRE seminar series. Drawing on his groundbreaking work on educational networks, evaluation, and sense-making in complex educational settings Dr Brown shared details of his project which focused on educational networks and community evaluation mostly conducted in N. Ireland but also pointed out the interesting lessons that could be learned from other areas, jurisdictions, countries.

Summarising the very well-received paper the DCU CRE said:

Community-based research is at the heart of Martin Brown's work. There was interesting discourse on the benefits as well as the difficulties in utilizing this research method. He also pointed out the additional networks that may reinforce research in the future; such as exploring more community organizations and groups and merging their opinions, experiences, and relationship with education with the information they obtained from primary and post-primary school clusters.

The full presentation can be found on the DCU CRE YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU8wKwpqmhk9agObqLGY2CA