Registration opens for Education Research Summit
Registration opens for Education Research Summit
- From: Department of Education and Youth
- Published on: 22 October 2025
- Last updated on: 22 October 2025
The First Annual Educational Research Summit
Attendance is free and you can register to attend here.
The Department of Education and Youth has announced the first Annual Educational Research Summit will be held on Tuesday, 18 November in Croke Park, Conference Centre. There was significant interest in the Call for Abstracts for this event and the programme will offer a diverse mix of futures-oriented educational research from across Ireland.
This first annual summit will take place at an exciting time for education, with the launch of the National Convention on Education by Minister McEntee, an inclusive dialogue on the future of education in Ireland. The Convention, to be chaired by Professor Anne Looney, will consider the strengths of Ireland’s education system, the areas where challenges have been increasing over time, and examine opportunities that are arising which should be availed of.
The first annual Educational Research summit will comprise of a keynote address from Professor Selina McCoy (Economic and Social Research Institute and Trinity College Dublin, parallel sessions with a rich range of presentations on the event themes and ample opportunity for networking, conversation and collaboration.
The summit will also serve as a platform for the launch of a Futures Oriented Educational Research Network which will bring together policy makers, researchers in higher education institutions, education practitioners, research funders, and think tanks and policy advisory organisations. The network’s future focus will be vital given the challenges facing society today.
The futures oriented educational research network will comprise three transdisciplinary themed sub-groups: Visions of Future Educational Systems; Future Schools and Educational Settings; Future Educational Outcomes. Each of these themed sub-groups will bring together policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to conduct activities which have a systemic focus i.e. each sub-group aims to bring together research from different research areas relevant to the theme’s holistic focus.
Participants at the Summit will comprise a mix of policy makers, researchers, and practitioners.
Agenda
The full agenda will be posted here in advance of the event. For those unable to attend in person, it is planned to stream the keynote address from Professor Selina McCoy. If you have any queries about this event please email