All Stories

  1. The Lasting Impact of Accountability, Surveillance, and Toxic Leadership: A Retrospective Autoethnography

    Article • British Journal of Educational Studies, November 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Skerritt

  2. Little-p policy production: exploring policy making in schools through the analytic of policy enactment

    Article • Journal of Education Policy, June 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Skerritt

  3. Senior Leaders Doing Policy Narration in Social Research Projects

    Article • November 2024, Emerald

    Craig Skerritt

  4. ‘I’m a troublemaker’: the need to focus on early-career academics’ experiences of sexual harassment in Ireland

    Article • Journal of Gender-Based Violence, February 2024, Policy Press

    Craig Skerritt

  5. Towards a mechanism for expert policy advice in education

    Article • British Educational Research Journal, April 2023, Wiley

    Craig Skerritt

  6. Is critical scholarship being reflected in policy? A critical response to ‘Looking at Our School 2022: a quality framework’

    Article • Journal of Educational Administration & History, February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Skerritt

  7. A sinister side of student voice: surveillance, suspicion, and stigma

    Article • Journal of Education Policy, November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Skerritt

  8. Teacher leadership in school self-evaluation: an approach to professional development

    Article • Irish Educational Studies, October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Joe O'Hara, Craig Skerritt

  9. What needs to happen for school autonomy to be mobilised to create more equitable public schools and systems of education?

    Article • The Australian Educational Researcher, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Craig Skerritt

  10. Are these the accountable teacher subjects citizens want?

    Article • Education Policy Analysis Archives, July 2022, Education Policy Analysis Archives

    Craig Skerritt

  11. Deconstructing the challenges and opportunities for blended learning in the post emergency learning era

    Article • Irish Educational Studies, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Joe O'Hara, Craig Skerritt

  12. Student voice and the school hierarchy: the disconnect between senior leaders and teachers

    Article • Oxford Review of Education, December 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Joe O'Hara, Craig Skerritt

  13. Middle leaders as policy translators: prime actors in the enactment of policy

    Article • Journal of Education Policy, December 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Joe O'Hara, Craig Skerritt

  14. For improvement, accountability, or the economy? Reflecting on the purpose(s) of school self-evaluation in Ireland

    Article • Journal of Educational Administration & History, October 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Joe O'Hara, Craig Skerritt

  15. Student voice and classroom practice: how students are consulted in contexts without traditions of student voice

    Article • Pedagogy Culture and Society, October 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Joe O'Hara, Craig Skerritt

  16. Embedding Self-Evaluation in School Routines

    Article • SAGE Open, October 2021, SAGE Publications

    Craig Skerritt

  17. Researching how student voice plays out in relation to classroom practice in Irish post-primary schools: a heuristic device

    Article • Irish Educational Studies, August 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Joe O'Hara, Craig Skerritt

  18. Students as co-researchers in a school self-evaluation process

    Article • Improving Schools, August 2021, SAGE Publications

    Prof Joe O'Hara, Craig Skerritt

  19. Global messages from the edge of Europe the cause and effect of leadership and planning strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • Irish Educational Studies, April 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Joe O'Hara, Craig Skerritt

  20. Enacting school self-evaluation: the policy actors in Irish schools

    Article • International Studies in Sociology of Education, February 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Joe O'Hara, Craig Skerritt

  21. The Rise and Fall and Rise of Academic Selection: The Case of Northern Ireland

    Article • Irish Studies in International Affairs, January 2021, Project Muse

    Prof Joe O'Hara, Craig Skerritt

  22. PRESSURE, BUREAUCRACY, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND ALL FOR SHOW: IRISH PERSPECTIVES ON LIFE INSIDE ENGLAND’S SCHOOLS

    Article • British Journal of Educational Studies, November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Skerritt

  23. Exploring parent and student engagement in school self-evaluation in four European countries

    Article • European Educational Research Journal, October 2020, SAGE Publications

    Maria Figueiredo, Craig Skerritt

  24. School autonomy and the surveillance of teachers

    Article • International Journal of Leadership in Education, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Skerritt

  25. Policy and practice: including parents and students in school self-evaluation

    Article • Irish Educational Studies, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Joe O'Hara, Craig Skerritt

  26. Exploring teacher identity using poststructural tools

    Article • International Journal of Research & Method in Education, April 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Skerritt

  27. Parent and student voice in evaluation and planning in schools

    Article • Improving Schools, December 2019, SAGE Publications

    De Martin V Brown, Prof Joe O'Hara, Maria Figueiredo, Craig Skerritt

  28. Autonomy, Accountability and Social Justice: Stories of English Schooling

    Article • Leadership and Policy in Schools, December 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Skerritt

  29. Patterns and paths towards privatisation in Ireland

    Article • Journal of Educational Administration & History, November 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Skerritt

  30. ‘I think Irish schools need to keep doing what they’re doing’: Irish teachers’ views on school autonomy after working in English academies

    Article • Improving Schools, May 2019, SAGE Publications

    Craig Skerritt

  31. Privatization and ‘destatization’: school autonomy as the ‘Anglo neoliberalization’ of Irish education policy

    Article • Irish Educational Studies, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Skerritt

  32. Inside the Autonomous School: Making Sense of a Global Educational Trend

    Article • British Journal of Educational Studies, December 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Skerritt

  33. Education governance and social theory: interdisciplinary approaches to research

    Article • Journal of Education Policy, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Skerritt

  34. Irish migrant teachers’ experiences and perceptions of autonomy and accountability in the English education system

    Article • Research Papers in Education, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Skerritt

  35. Discourse and teacher identity in business-like education

    Article • Policy Futures in Education, May 2018, SAGE Publications

    Craig Skerritt

  36. The code for success? Using a Bernsteinian perspective on sociolinguistics to accentuate working-class students’ underachievement in the Republic of Ireland

    Article • Irish Journal of Sociology, August 2017, SAGE Publications

    Craig Skerritt, Craig Skerritt