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Tom Delahunty

@tdelahunty.bsky.social
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Critical psychologist at Maynooth University. Research/write about Education, policy, decoloniality, critical theory, gender, anti-neoliberalism

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European Educational Research Association - EERA @ecer-eera.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴: Democracy depends on conflict as well as consensus. Reflecting on an ECER symposium, Thomas Delahunty calls for policy research that values disagreement as a democratic strength. #ECER2025 #EduSci
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The radical democratic imperative in educational policy research
A reflection on the discussion points of the ECER symposium on educational policy research, and implications for educational policy and curriculum.
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Tom Delahunty @tdelahunty.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
New publication from RAISE that investigates the role of gender stereotype beliefs in early childhood educators attitudes towards STeM education. Published in European Journal of Teacher Education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Investigating STEM interest, mathematics beliefs and gender stereotypes among pre-service early childhood educators
The underrepresentation of women in STEM is a pervasive issue. Despite evidence casting doubt on common-sense notions that males have superior ability in these domains, gender stereotype beliefs pe...
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"UNESCO’s AIEd policy guidance warrants careful review, not least because any guidance carrying the UNESCO imprimatur has the ability to inform education policy and practice in diverse contexts and cultures across the globe" Much-needed analysis of UNESCO owning the AIEd ethics space
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Tom Delahunty @tdelahunty.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
My latest essay is out now in Dissident Voice and analyses the developmentalist inflected discourse emerging from the Netflix show 'Adolescence', which works to distract from systemic gender-based violence and construct adolescents as 'suspect' dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/chil...
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“Childish” Adolescence | Dissident Voice
Not one to enter discussion on the cultural relevance of television shows often, it is hard to miss the fervour surrounding Netflix’s Adolescence, which recounts the dramatized events surrounding the ...
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MU Department of Education @maynootheducation.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Are you interested in applying for the Future Leaders Programme? Join our Open Night on 20.05.25. Register here - tinyurl.com/j62wwm5j Course information here - tinyurl.com/4vkpczx5 @majelladempsey.bsky.social @anthonymalone.bsky.social @maijakataliina.bsky.social @tdelahunty.bsky.social
Maynooth University Department of Education invite you to our Future Leaders Open Night on 20th May 2025 from 17:00-18:00. Please register to attend.
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Tom Delahunty @tdelahunty.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
And let’s witness how many other Western news media outlets quietly ATTEMPT to roll back their denial of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in fear of now being seen as complicit. Pity that once complicit in genocide means always complicit, and as always: Silence is complicity!! #freefreePalestine
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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
.@guardian warns that expelling Palestinians from Gaza would be genocidal and notes the consensus that Israel has committed genocide, but fails to account for the extreme lateness of its recognition or its earlier reluctance to allow space for this view. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on Israel and Gaza: Trump can stop this horror. The alternative is unthinkable | Editorial
Editorial: The US president has the leverage to force through a ceasefire. If he does not, he will implicitly signal approval of what looks like a plan of total destruction
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MU Department of Education @maynootheducation.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Department of Education academic awarded Research Ireland New Foundations award. Dr. Thomas Delahunty is one of seven MU awardees successful under the latest competition. See more www.maynoothuniversity.ie/education/ne...
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MU researchers awarded Research Ireland funding to address societal
Seven MU researchers working on projects ranging from the challenges of mental and physical health, human rights and citizenship, education and media have received awards under Research Ireland's
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Irish Educational Studies @iesjournal.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Wonderful to be part of another annual meeting of @esai-irl.bsky.social last week! Highlights included IES updates from our General Editor, Prof. Audrey Bryan, as well as the IES/Taylor & Francis conference reception 🥂 Until next year! #esai25
IES updates, given by Prof Audrey Bryan. IES updates, given by Prof Audrey Bryan. The IES/Taylor & Francis reception
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ESAI @esai-irl.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The ESAI #LifetimeAchievement Award winner for 2025 is Professor Kathy Hall @ucc.ie We are delighted to honour Prof Hall’s outstanding contribution to education in Ireland and internationally. #esai25
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Tom Delahunty @tdelahunty.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
‼️ We want to hear from you ‼️ We are still collecting data for our study exploring critical psychology in Ireland and would really value your input. It will only take 20 minutes. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/maynoothun...
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Tom Delahunty @tdelahunty.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Latest paper lead by the brilliant @sarahgillborn.bsky.social. Tackles the issue of the psy-complex in educational policy making. Open access available.
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Maynooth University @maynoothuniversity.ie · 10/03/2025
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. 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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MU Department of Education @maynootheducation.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The Dept of Education and the Dept of Anthropology at Maynooth University invite you to attend a free ONE-DAY CONFERENCE on March 25, 2025. Further details here – shorturl.at/l603Z Register here - forms.office.com/e/yfJGPLce7S
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Sarah Gillborn @sarahgillborn.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This webinar – hosted by the Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN) – brought together three experts to discuss social discourses and practices surrounding children and food. If you missed it, the webinar is now available to view here: www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-vi...
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Watch our webinar: Children and Food
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Irish Educational Studies @iesjournal.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Great to see our Editor have the chance to chat with you, Peter! Check out the latest episode of Let's Talk Education to learn about all things IES and publishing with us! www.dcu.ie/instituteofe...
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Let’s Talk Education Research | Institute of Education
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Kalwant Bhopal @kalwantbhopal.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Out now! Just published!!
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Tom Delahunty @tdelahunty.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Comrades, we want to hear from you! If you are a psychologist (academic or practitioner) or teacher educator responsible for teaching psychology or psychological topics to students please consider taking this short (20 mins) survey. We need the numbers! app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/maynoothun...
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Palestinians never seem to have the luxury of digesting one tragedy before the next one is upon them. —Joe Sacco
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Tom Delahunty @tdelahunty.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Gentle reminder that university ranking are just another tool of the neoliberal governance of higher education and are WORSE than meaningless. That is all.
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a stick figure is pressing a pointless button on a box
ALT: a stick figure is pressing a pointless button on a box
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Tom Delahunty @tdelahunty.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
New to this migrating from X. May as well start with a plug - My latest article is out now in @EpatJournal on the impact of 'datafication' on educational subjectivities. Might be of interest as a critical take in the era of AI.  50 Free copies available here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘Datafied dividuals and learnified potentials’: The coloniality of datafication in an era of learnification
Widespread popular discourse, at the time of writing, is centring on the capabilities of AI technologies, among others, in utilising the readily available mass of data to augment claimed educationa...
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