IRMSS 2017 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

FRIDAY, 19th MAY 2017

PLENARY SESSION
3.30 pm 5 pm

Literature Mapping Workshop

SESSION FACILITATOR
DES CARSWELL

Venue: T.1.17 Tara Building

CONFERENCE WELCOME
5.00 pm 5.30 pm
Venue: T.1.18

PROFESSOR EUGENE WALL,

Acting President,
Mary Immaculate College

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
5.30 pm 7.00 pm
Venue: T.1.18

PROFESSOR VIVIAN GADSDEN

President American Educational Research Association (AERA)

CHAIR: PROFESSOR JIM DEEGAN

Director, IRMSS
&
Head of Graduate School, Research and Graduate School,
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick

WELCOME RECEPTION
7.00pm -8.00pm
Venue: Lobby Tara Building

SATURDAY, 20th MAY 2017

 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
9.00 am 10.00 am
Venue: T.1.18

Title: Content and language integration in multilingual education as a wicked

problem: towards a transdisciplinary approach

DR. TOM MORTON

Birkbeck, University of London

CONCURRENT SESSION1 of4

10.00 am 11.00 pm

BREAK
11.00 am 11.30 am
Venue: Lobby

CONCURRENT SESSION2 of4

11.30 am 12.30 pm

THREE MINUTE THESIS COMPETITION, MARY IMMACULATE COLLEGE

12.30 PM 1.00 PM
Venue: T.1.18 Tara
Building

SESSION FACILITATOR
PROF. JIM DEEGAN

LUNCH
1.00pm 2.00pm
Venue: MIC Canteen

CONCURRENT SESSION3 of4

2.00 pm 3.00 pm

BREAK
3.00 pm 3.30 pm
Venue: Lobby
 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
3.30 pm - 4.30 pm
Venue: T.1.18

Title: What can research on education injustice represent? What does it do?
Dr Karl Kitching
School of Education, University College Cork

SUNDAY, 21st MAY 2017

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
10.00 am -11.00 am
Venue: T1.18 Tara Building

Combining corpus and psycholinguistic methods in second language

acquisition research: The benefits of interdisciplinary work in Applied
Linguistics.
Dr Ute Romer,
Georgia State University

BREAK
11.00 am-11.30am
Venue: Lobby

CONCURRENT SESSION4 of4

11.30 am 12.30 pm

LUNCH
12.30 pm 2.00 pm
Venue: MIC Canteen

Keynote Presentation
2.00 pm 3.00 pm
Venue: T1.18 Tara Building

Belonging and Believing:

The Experience of Jewish and Muslim
School Communities in the UK

PROFESSOR MARIE PARKER JENKINS

Professor of Education,
Department of Education and Professional Studies,
University of Limerick
CONFERENCE CLOSING
3.00 pm 3.15 pm