Associate Professor
Short Biography:
Ray is an Associate Professor in Education within the School of Education at the University of Limerick, and has been teaching in the area of Initial Teacher Education since 2006.
Research interests:
- Student interests and self-efficacy
- Task difficulty and task valence
- Curriculum development
- Fictionalism in education
Recent publications:
Power, J. R., Lynch, R., & Atit, K. (2023). Self-efficacy development in student teachers: the critical role of school placement. European Journal of Teacher Education, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2023.2288555
McCormack, O., Lynch, R., & Hennessy, J. (2023). Caveats for change: exploring pre-service teachers’ concerns regarding change. Teachers and Teaching, 30(5), 585–600. https://doi.org/10.1080/13540602.2023.2265824
McGarr, O., Mc Cormack, O., O’Reilly, J., Lynch, R., Power, J., Hennessy, J., O’Meara, N., Neary, A., Leahy, K., Calderon, A., Mac Phail, A., Ó Gallchóir, C., Mc Mahon, J., Lenihan, R., Ní Chathasaigh, C., & Goos, M. (2023). Exploring the introduction of the Framework for Junior Cycle: A longitudinal study. Interim report No. 2. University of Limerick. https://doi.org/10.34961/researchrepository-ul.22656892
Lynch, R. (2022). Approaches to policy analysis. In T. Delahunty & M. Ní Ríordáin (Eds.), Perspectives in contemporary STEM education research: Research methodology and design (pp. 169-177). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003108122
McGarr, O., & Lynch, R. (2021). Analysing the construction of ‘sustainability’ in lower secondary school technology syllabi in Ireland. Environmental Education Research, 27(7), 992–1010. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2021.1903837
