I am Associate Professor in Sociology and Head of the School of Human Development at the DCU Institute of Education. I teach on a range of programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and across the Faculties of Education and Humanities & Social Sciences. My main teaching responsibilities are in the areas of: Families and Education; Multiple Intelligences; Children’s Rights and Privacy in Schools; and the Sociology of Childhood.
My research interests and publications are mainly in: Diversity and Education; Parental involvement and Schooling; Homework; Children’s Rights and Privacy; Traveller Education; and School Placement. I am committed to service within the university and wider community; I am a member of the DCU Research Ethics Committee (REC), and am Chairperson of a Board of Management in the Educate Together network of schools.
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Fitzmaurice, H., Flynn, M., Hanafin, J. (2021) 'Parental involvement in homework: A qualitative Bourdieusian study of class, privilege, and social reproduction'. INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION (PRINT), 30 (4). [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Fitzmaurice, H.,; Flynn, M.; Hanafin, J. (2020) 'Primary teachers’ homework practices: Identity, expectations, policies, and cultural values'. Issues in Educational Research, . | |
| 2020 | Fitzmaurice, Helen; Flynn, Marie; Hanafin, Joan (2020) 'Positive dispositions and close alignment: Using Bourdieusian concepts to understand parents' and teachers' perceptions of homework'. Education 3-13, 48 (8). [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Moore, J.; Flynn, M.; Morgan, M. (2019) 'Social Ecological Resilience and Mental Wellbeing of Irish Emigrant Survivors of Clerical Institutional Childhood Abuse'. Child Abuse Review, 28 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Boyle, A.; Flynn, M.; Hanafin, J. (2020) 'Optimism despite disappointment: Irish traveller parents’ reports of their own school experiences and their views on education'. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 24 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2010 | Hanafin, Joan; O'Donoghue, Tom; Flynn, Marie; Shevlin, Michael (2010) 'The primary school's invasion of the privacy of the child: unmasking the potential of some current practices'. Educational Studies, 36 (2). [DOI] | |
| 2002 | Hanafin, J.; Shevlin, M.; Flynn, M. (2002) 'Responding to student diversity: Lessons from the margin'. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 10 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 1998 | Flynn, M. (1998) 'A study of gender differentiation in primary school playgrounds'. Irish Educational Studies, 17 (1):148-8-160. [DOI] |