Book
Research and projects
Work other settings and researchers can use.
Publications, conference presentations and action research from the team. Everything we are free to share is free to use, and we would rather be asked than cited wrongly.
Book
The book
Babies and toddlers hold rights today.
Babies' and Toddlers' Rights in Practice
Dr Mary Moloney, Dr Sharon Skehill and Dr Jennifer Pope. Boru Press, 2025. ISBN 9781738454556.
Launched at Mary Immaculate College in September 2025 by Professor Laura Lundy of Queen's University Belfast. It introduces the NOD and STRIVE frameworks, which are the frameworks the team here is working from and writing about.
Publications
Written and co-written.
Everything below is Sharon's, alone or with co-authors. Her full record is on ORCID.
Chapter
The quiddity of inclusion: knowing what matters in early childhood settings
DOI →Article
Collaboration as foundational in the transition from preschool to primary school
DOI →Article
Fusing the horizons between aspirations of continuing professional development and the realities of educators experiences in practice
DOI →Policy
Updating Aistear: the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework
Profile
Dr Sharon Skehill on ORCID
ORCID →[VERIFY with Sharon whether anything is missing from this list, including any titles written for children, and which of these she is free to share as a PDF.]
Counted from the list above rather than claimed. The full and current record is on ORCID.
publications and records listed above: a book, a chapter, two journal articles, a policy piece and the ORCID profile
Six
the National Early Childhood Conference, where three educators from this setting presented in April
NECC 2026
the setting has been running, which is the length of the practice all of it is written from
Since 2005
[VERIFY the counts above once Sharon sends her full list, and the year the setting opened.]
Presentations
Where the work has been presented.
Conference2026
ECE educators' perspectives on the value and impact of prepared outdoor environments
[VERIFY Ethan and Jason current roles before naming them elsewhere on the site.]
Keynote2025
Nurturing through nature: curiosities, creativity and communication in the outdoors
Podcast2023
Updating Aistear, with Dr Sharon Skehill
Video2023
Aistear, Updated
Watch →Projects
Action research going on in the setting.
Every row here is labelled with its status. Two of them are labelled Sample, and that is exactly what they are.
ProjectSampleCurrent
Sample project: prepared outdoor environments
This is not a real project record. It is here so the page can be judged as a page. [VERIFY the current projects, their leads, their partners and their start years.]
ProjectSampleCompleted
Sample project: transitions to primary school
This is not a real project record. [VERIFY which completed projects Sharon wants listed, and what each one produced.]
Projects are static on this page. The `projects` table in the revamp plan is not built, because the schema is not worth settling before Sharon's own list arrives.
Resources
Free to download and use.
Material other settings can pick up and run with, rather than a reading list.
Downloadable resources are being gathered with Sharon. Presentations, project write-ups and the material behind the publications will appear here as each one is cleared for sharing. Ask and we will send what exists today.
Get in touch
Working on something
we could help with?
Educators, settings, students, researchers and policy makers: visits, questions and collaboration are all welcome.