Edwina Mulcahy

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Edwina Mulcahy is a doctoral researcher in the PhD in Children and Youth Studies at University College Dublin. She holds a first-class honours UCD Masters of Education, specialising in Children’s Rights and Social Justice in Education. Her doctoral research focuses on children’s views of the Digital Divide through the lens of children’s rights in primary school. She captures children’s views through participatory action research using a children’s rights interactive pedagogy within the classroom. Edwina has worked as a field researcher for the Children’s School Lives longitudinal research study commissioned by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) conducted by UCD School of Education. She has participated in, and managed, community literacy projects with DEIS Band 1 primary schools for many years. Edwina is the Montessori Educateurs sans Frontières representative for Ireland. and has taught in Ireland and the UK.