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Catriona O’Toole

@catrionaotoole.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Education, @maynoothuniversity.ie 🎓 Chartered Psychologist PSI | Putting compassion at the ❤️of education 🌟Researching trauma-informed practice, school attendance, wellbeing 👊 Marathon 🏃‍♀️ Free 🇵🇸

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MU Department of Education @maynootheducation.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Minister of Education and Youth, Helen McEntee, welcomes the commencement of the new Professional Doctorate in Educational Psychology at MU. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/... @maynoothuniversity.ie @catrionaotoole.bsky.social @majelladempsey.bsky.social @allinstitutemu.bsky.social
Photo of a group students who joined the Professional Doctorate in Educational Psychology at Maynooth University, Department of Education.
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Wonderful to welcome our first group of trainee educational psychologists to @maynoothuniversity.ie @mupsychology.bsky.social @maynootheducation.bsky.social And what a fab group they are!
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MU Department of Education @maynootheducation.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Listen to Dr Catriona O'Toole, on Radio 1 discussing her research on school avoidance. You can listen back to her insightful discussion here- www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... @catrionaotoole.bsky.social @majelladempsey.bsky.social @georginasherlock.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie
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School Avoidance & Book Tips
Association Professor of Psychology in Education Dr Catriona O’Toole advises on how to manage school avoidance, and librarian Darina Molloy has book tips for school avoiders and school starters.
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
‼️Join us for re-launch of the @INSA_Network Webinar Series, kicking off with: 🗣️Prof Chris Kearney, speaking on Theory of Change and #SchoolAttendance/#absenteeism 🗓️Thurs 26th June, 6pm UTC 🔗Register for free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/eee7e7...
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Dr Karen Treisman, MBE- Clinical Psychologist @drkarentreisman.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Look forward to reading this paper- Reflections of ‘Doing’ Research that Involves Trauma: A Methodological Guide and Framework for Researchers- journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Reflections of ‘Doing’ Research that Involves Trauma: A Methodological Guide and Framework for Researchers - Kathomi Gatwiri, Lynne McPherson, Antonia Canosa, Kylie Day, Samara Kim, 2025
This paper examines the experiences of four researchers engaged in a study with young people residing in therapeutic residential care facilities in an Australia...
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
As the Edu Minister announced new initiatives to support school attendance, we were delighted to have leading academic, Lisa McKay Brown from @UniMelb present her project on attendance & participation in 🇦🇺 schools @maynootheducation.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie
Lisa McKay Brown presenting on the MTSS (multi-tiered system of support) model to support student attendance and participation
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Delighted to receive a Teaching & Learning Fellowship with @emmaefarrell.bsky.social for our project: Sense & Sensitivity - Exploring emotionally-complex topics in higher ed. Wonderful collaboration across @maynootheducation.bsky.social @mupsychology.bsky.social
Framed Certificate of Fellowship Award
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Majella Dempsey @majelladempsey.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Great few days in Berlin at the annual @ecer-eera.bsky.social ECER conference planning meeting with wonderful colleagues across Europe. Two networks led by @maynootheducation.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie people. NW8 Health & Wellbeing Ed by @catrionaotoole.bsky.social & NW3 Curriculum by me!
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Great start to the #Trieste 🇮🇹 half marathon at the wkend! After a minutes silence for the pope we had Pavarotti 🎶 to psych us up 🏃‍♀️
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
🚨Excited to announce we are recruiting a Professor in Educational Psychology at @maynoothuniversity.ie @maynootheducation.bsky.social @MUpsychdept to lead our new Professional Doctorate. Four other permanent f/t and p/t posts in EdPsych also advertised. my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
📢Call for Papers: we're looking for original research articles exploring how wellbeing is conceptualised, enacted & experienced in schools-tensions, ambiguities, equity, student voice etc Advancing Equity, Voice, and Sustainability in School Wellbeing emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...
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Advancing Equity, Voice, and Sustainability in School Wellbeing
This special issue examines how wellbeing is conceptualized, enacted, and experienced in schools, with a focus on equity, student voice, and challenges of embedding wellbeing into school practices. It...
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Our Professional Doctorate in Educational Psychology is now open for applications!! Apply by March 26th: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/psychology/o... @maynoothuniversity.ie @maynootheducation.bsky.social
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PROFESSIONAL DOCTORATE IN EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
The Professional Doctorate in Educational Psychology (D.Ed.Psych.) at Maynooth University is a three-year full-time, postgraduate programme designed to develop highly skilled, ethical, and reflective
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🚨 Announcing our new Doctorate in Educational Psychology at @MaynoothUniversity jointly offered by @MU_Education and @MUpsychdept Opening for applications very soon!!! Bursaries will be provided, supported by @Education_Ire and NEPS 🤩 www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-soci...
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Minister McEntee welcomes new MU Professional Doctorate in
Minister for Education Helen McEntee, has welcomed the announcement that MU is to offer a new three-year Professional Doctorate programme in Educational Psychology from September 2025, to support a
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Restricting phone use alone doesn’t support student wellbeing School phone policies and their association with mental wellbeing, phone use, and social media use (SMART Schools): a cross-sectional observational study - The Lancet Regional Health – Europe www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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School phone policies and their association with mental wellbeing, phone use, and social media use (SMART Schools): a cross-sectional observational study
There is no evidence that restrictive school policies are associated with overall phone and social media use or better mental wellbeing in adolescents. The findings do not provide evidence to support ...
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Come join our wonderful team!
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Just want to amplify this big time 💞
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Delighted to have our research on #recoveryoriented approaches in mental health care, published this month. Tnx to @researchireland.bsky.social for funding & collaborator-Kyrie Farm www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Designing recovery-oriented care: a qualitative study to inform service design at Kyrie Therapeutic Farm in Ireland | Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Designing recovery-oriented care: a qualitative study to inform service design at Kyrie Therapeutic Farm in Ireland
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Our book Trauma-informed practice in Montessori Classrooms is out now 🤩 With Bernadette & Stephen Phillips and Sinead McGilloway www.routledge.com/Trauma-Infor...
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Trauma-Informed Practice in Montessori Classrooms: An Essential Guide for Students and Teachers
Trauma-Informed Practice in Montessori Classrooms provides important historical and contemporary evidence of the potential for Montessori schools to act as “healing” environments for children and youn...
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
My paper with @taraciric.bsky.social on School Attendance Ensuring that students are listened to, believed, and empowered to actively participate in shaping their educational experiences, we can create successful educational pathways for ALL students www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...
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Frontiers | Compassion, collaboration and cultural-responsiveness: insights on promoting successful pathways through education for students who face school attendance barriers
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water. Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
Cameron, Ariz. Living on one of the largest swaths of land in America without electrical power, Thomasina Nez's entire life is a scramble to complete basic tasks. To take a hot shower, she must wait for buckts of water to come to a boil on a small propane stove outside her wood framed roundhouse. To make meals, she relies mostly on canned goods because unfridgerated produce rots qucikly in the Arizona heat. Its a struggle to stay warm at night, because she refuses to use her coal-powered heate after its fumes killed her two dogs.A fierce battle for electric power is being waged across the nation, and Nez is one of thousands of people who have wound up on the losing end. Amid a boom in data acenters, the energy intensive warehouses that run supercomputers for Big Tech companies, Arizona is racing to increase electricity production. In February, the state utility board approved an 8 percent rate hike to bolster power infrastructure throughout the state, where data centers are popping up faster than almost anywhere in the US But it rejected a plan to bring electricity to parts of the Navajo Nation land, concluding that electric consumers should not be asked to foot the nearly $4 million bill.
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Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Even some of the most educated ppl have NO idea what AI is doing to energy use & the environment. My husband works in EPA permitting of factories & energy facilities, and they are getting SO many requests for permitting data centers. We're gonna AI ourselves into rapid environmental collapse.
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Inspectorate report on attendance strategies used in schools: “It is not yet apparent that strategies to promote attendance…place sufficient emphasis on the critical link between high-quality, responsive, teaching and consistently good school attendance,” www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Numbers missing 20 school days or more in disadvantaged areas of 'particular concern'
Partial attendance at school can be a precursor towards more significant issues that may lead to early school leaving
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Full article: Reporting guidelines for qualitative research: a values-based approach - Braun & Clarke
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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I'm launching a new career as a demotivational speaker (thanks to everyone who got in touch this morning - it's nice to hear it strikes a chord) www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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Patrick Freyne: I am becoming a demotivational speaker – let’s all have an averagely productive December
I keep meeting people who are extremely burned out. I meet them so often that I’m beginning to think burnout is something that exists by design
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David A. Ellis @davidaellis.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
'small group of researchers who disagree with him'....what a joke. The entire field disagrees with him! And it's got nothing to do with burying evidence. The simple fact is that his claims are in stark contrast to the scientific evidence available.
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Happy 13th birthday to this amazing kiddo 🥰
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Sharon Byrne @byrnesays.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
DCEDIY has launched a toolkit for including children from birth to 5 in decision-making with examples from early education and other settings. The toolkit was published by Hub na nÓg & can be accessed here: hubnanog.ie/resources/to... #EarlyYears
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Toolkits & Guidance | Hub na nÓg
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Addressing the Rethinking Justice Conference in Trinity today highlighting the value of trauma informed education. Delighted to bring an educational lens to mainly legal and forensic audience
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Super proud supervisor moment as Bernadette Phillips successfully defended her PhD with no corrections! Her work explored the Montessori approach and how it aligns with contemporary trauma-informed practices and pedagogies
Examiners, Anthony Malone and Mira Debs (on screen), Bernadette and me. All smiles and glasses of noseco
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
So relieved to hear this, what an incredibly brave woman
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Eemer Eivers @eemereivers.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Interested in amplifying children's voices? The @1moci.bsky.social Children's Advisory Team (15 members, aged 10-17) seek additional volunteer facilitators for their online & in-person activities. Interesting activities, a good group to work with. Details museumofchildhood.ie/cat-facilita...
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Reviewer#3 revealed to be a disgruntled crow that you offended in 2007.
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Welcome this. Children NEED to play. That means engaging in loose, unstructured, freely chosen activities where they exert agency & autonomy, without undue adult interference, or pressure to perform. ESSENTIAL for their healthy development
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Me and my besties, typical winter night
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
‘Opportunities’ may arise from crises. But only after political figures acknowledge the gravity of the situation and address it with concrete actions. #teachershotage
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
There are several misconceptions surrounding trauma-informed practice. For clarity I’ve been working on a framework for TI in education. Find it here traumainformededucation.ie/our-framework/
Conceptual Framework for Trauma-informed Education
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Ciara Reilly @primedteacher.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
12,722 children are now overdue an assessment of need. Some of us 'completed' the assessment a year ago and still await a service statement. We have nothing. I shared Doireann's story on @newstalkfm.bsky.social in an attempt to illustrate that a complete assessment is just the first step. What then?
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12,722 children are overdue an assessment of need
The Pat Kenny Show Highlights · Episode
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The slender-billed curlew was declared extinct this week - here, the Irish curlew (crotach) lost over 90% of its breeding population since the 1980s due to habitat loss from human activity. If we don't act, their bubbling call may be silenced in Ireland forever. www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Black and white drawing of a flying Irish curlew with celtic knots under its wings, with the Irish words "crotach" (meaning curlew) beneath it.

#sciart #art #wildlife #curlew #birdsky
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Netanyahu hit with ICC arrest warrant. A permanent scar on his reputation - but unlikely to see him brought before The Hague any time soon.
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Resources to bring Traveller culture into curriculum
Page from INTO In Touch magazine
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Appreciating the flora in the bogs of Kildare - gorse and yarrow flowering in winter 💚❄️
Prickly gorse with abundance of yellow flowersYarrow; cluster of small white flowers
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Alan Gorman @alangorman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
My latest @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social piece critically examines the shortcomings of education manifestos. It highlights how they often serve as voter-appealing tools rather than blueprints for systemic change and meaningful reform @dcuioe.bsky.social Link below 👇 www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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Why election manifestos miss the mark on real education reform
Election pledges and promises look good on paper, but often lack the depth needed to address complex, systemic issues in our schools
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Julian Girdham @sccenglish.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Those of us in Irish education used to have a civilised hour's Mon evening discussion each week 'over there' under the aegis of the excellent Fred Boss. This evening fire in comments with #edchatie too & let's see where we are. And wave if you're not in this: go.bsky.app/BqbTnC7 pls 'repost'.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A feed to find other Irish users (and ex TwitX comrades) #Spéirgorm #speirgorm bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Chilling but vital read
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Aditi Rao @aditilrao.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
This horrifying video of the occupation's terroristic assault on Beirut has nearly 2k RTs on Twitter and only 2 here rn. We need to get serious about actively resharing all the content from Palestine and Lebanon we encounter so this site is not ceded to the warmth of liberal pleasantries for good.
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Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
An essential read
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