Educational Disadvantage Centre, Institute of Education, Dublin City University
Levels of education
ECEC
School education
VET
Higher Education
Non-formal and informal learning
Adult education
Geographical scope of expertise
Policy themes
Access to high quality education for all
Content of education and training curricula, development of key competences
Vulnerable groups in education and training, ensuring inclusion and non-discrimination
Education and migration
Early school leaving, participation in education and training
Parental and stakeholders’ engagement, whole-school approach
Monitoring for equity and quality in education and training
Education and training of professional workforce
Cross-sectorial working
Active citizenship and identity in education
Selected publications
Downes, P. & Cefai, C. (2019). “Strategic Clarity on Different Prevention Levels of School Bullying and Violence: Rethinking Peer Defenders and Selected Prevention”. Journal of School Violence.
Downes, P. (2019). “Transition as a displacement from more fundamental system concerns: Distinguishing four different meanings of transition in education“. Educational Philosophy and Theory.
Downes, P. (2018). “Postscript – The Emotional-Relational Turn for Early School Leaving Prevention: Building on The Neglected Shadow for Inclusive Systems in and around Schools”. International Journal of Emotional Education, 10.
Downes, P., Anderson, J., Nairz-Wirth E. (2018). Editorial Conclusion: Developing conceptual understandings of transitions and policy implications. Special Issue, European Journal of Education, 53.
Downes, P. (2018). “An Emerging Paradigm of Structural Indicators to Examine System Supports for Children’s and Adolescents’ Education and Wellbeing”. Child Indicators Research, 11.
Downes, P. (2014) Access to Education in Europe: A Framework and Agenda for System Change. Dordrecht: Springer, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union/EU bookshop.
Edwards, A. & Downes, P. (2013). Alliances for Inclusion:Developing Cross-sector Synergies and Inter-Professional Collaboration in and around Education. Foreword by Jan Truszczynski, Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Education and Culture. NESET report, Brussels: European Commission, DG Education and Culture
Downes, P. (2012) The Primordial Dance: Diametric and Concentric Spaces in the Unconscious World. Oxford/Bern: Peter Lang.