Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Alan Gorman:

I thank Senator Mullen for his question. What we hope to explore in the centre, in particular in the next 12 months, is the opportunity to engage with schools. Professor O'Higgins Norman mentioned the need to engage in deep, qualitative research with principals in schools. In the research, we want to draw on a range of schools and school contexts to include denominational schools, multi-denominational schools and Gaelscoileanna and explore the perspectives and the challenges principals are meeting individually in terms of leading the schools. We hope we will gain more insights into that in the research in the next 12 months in particular. It is a very interesting question.