Publications – VARiE Research

Publications and Research Outputs

MARTINEZ SAINZ G., Gleasure, S., Moore, B., Crummy, A., Vazquez Martinez, O. N., Sloan, S., Ioannidou, O., Symonds, J., & Devine, D. (2026). ‘A School Day’ Board Game: A Play-Based Method to Explore Children’s Experiences of Their School Lives. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 25.

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Gleasure, S., Devine, D., MARTINEZ SAINZ, G., Sloan, S., & Symonds, J. (2024). Understanding Children’s Experiences of Care in Their School Lives Through Participatory Research Methods: A Comparative Analysis of Focus Group Discussions and Photovoice. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23.

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MARTINEZ SAINZ, G., Devine, D., Sloan, S., Symonds, J., Moore, B., Barrow, N., Crean, M., Donegan, A., Greaves, M., Samonova, E., Gleasure, S. & Ioannidou, O. (2024). A rights-based exploration of children’s pedagogic voice in the classroom. Education 3-13, 52(6), 874–890.

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Gleasure, S., Devine, D., MARTINEZ SAINZ, G., Sloan, S., Crean, M., Moore, B. & Symonds, J. (2024) “This is Where the Care Can Step Up”: A Typology of Nurturing Pedagogies in Primary Schools Serving Low-Income Communities During COVID-19 Closures. Early Childhood Education Journal.

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Crean, M., Moore, B., Devine, D., Symonds, J., Sloan, S., & MARTINEZ SAINZ, G. (2024). Qualitative research during the COVID19 pandemic: the impact of remote research on the collaborative production of methodological knowledge. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 1–11.

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MARTINEZ SAINZ, G. and HANNA, A. (2023) Youth digital activism, social media and human rights education: the Fridays for Future movement. Human Rights Education Review.

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Crean, M. Devine, D., Moore, B., MARTINEZ SAINZ, G., Symonds, J., Sloan, S. & Farrell, E. (2023) Social class, COVID-19 and care: Schools on the front line in Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic, British Journal of Sociology of Education

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DONEGAN, A., Devine, D., MARTINEZ SAINZ, G., Symonds, J., & Sloan, S. (2022). Children as co-researchers in pandemic times: Power and participation in the use of digital dialogues with children during the COVID-19 lockdown. Children & Society, 37, 235– 253.

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Mallon, B. and MARTINEZ SAINZ, G. (2021) ‘Education for children’s rights in Ireland before, during and after the pandemic.’ Irish Educational Studies. Vol 40. No. 2, 285-294

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Zanatta, F., MARTINEZ SAINZ, G. & Gillett-Swan, J. (2019) A Critical Realist Reflection on the Use of Social Media as Third Space for Rights Education in Early Childhood. International Journal of Early Childhood 51, 319–333.

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Child and Adolescents’ Agency and Digital Activism in Children’s Rights and Citizenship Education

MARTINEZ SAINZ, G., Barry, M., & URREA MONCLÚS, A. (2020) Child and Adolescents’ Agency and Digital Activism in Children’s Rights and Citizenship Education. Lleida: Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida.

International Perspectives on Practice and Research into Children’s Rights

MARTINEZ SAINZ, G and ILIE, S. (Eds.) (2018) International Perspectives on Practice and Research into Children’s Rights. Mexico: Centre for Human Rights Studies.

MARTINEZ SAINZ, G., Keogh, A.J. & Lannin, S. (2026). “Critical Education for Sustainable Development: Bridging Policy and Practice in Irish Higher Education”, in Kushnir & Syed-Abdullah (Eds) Education for Sustainable Development: International Case Studies of Policymaking in Higher Education, Emerald Publishing Limited.

Lundy, L., Templeton, M. & MARTINEZ SAINZ, G. (2023) Child human rights defenders and schools: When HRE and activism can, but should not collide. In Mallon, Waldron & Ní Cassaithe (Eds.) Pushing the Boundaries of Human Rights Education: Concepts, Challenges and Contexts. London: Routledge 83-97.

Oberman, R. & MARTINEZ SAINZ, G. (2021) ‘Critical Thinking, Critical Pedagogy and Climate Change Education’ in KAVANAGH, A., WALDRON, F. & MALLON, B. (Eds) Teaching for Social Justice and Sustainable Development Across the Primary Curriculum. London: Routledge.

MARTINEZ SAINZ, G. (2019) ‘Alcances y limitaciones de la educación en derechos humanos en México’ [The scope and limitations of human rights education in Mexico] in GÓMEZ, C. (Ed.) Violencia y Derechos Humanos, México: Universidad Iberoamericana.

MARTINEZ SAINZ, G. (2018) ‘Challenges of Teaching Children Their Rights in a Violent Context’ in MARTINEZ SAINZ, G and ILIE, S. (Eds.) International Perspectives on Practice and Research into Children’s Rights. Mexico: Centre for Human Rights Studies.

MARTINEZ SAINZ, G. (2018) ‘Enseñar Derechos Humanos desde una Perspectiva Pisco-Social” [Teaching human rights from a psico-social perspective] in VERSEDA, M. (Ed.) Perspectiva Psicosocial de los Derechos Humanos. Mexico: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.

MARTINEZ SAINZ, G. and the CSL Team. A Rights-based Exploration of Children’s Pedagogic Voice in the Classroom. Educational Studies Association of Ireland, Maynooth. April 2024.

MARTINEZ SAINZ, G., and HANNA, A. Learning through Protest. Digital Activism and Children’s Rights Education. Educational Studies Association of Ireland, Belfast. April 2023.

MARTINEZ SAINZ, G., Lannin, S. and the CSL Team. Researching Educational Disruption through Play: children’s experiences of learning in the pandemic classroom. UCD CHiLD-Research Centre & Children’s Rights Network Annual Conference 2022, Dublin. December 2022.

CABALLERO GARCÍA, C.M, MARTINEZ SAINZ, G., Senior, J. and Arnaiz Sánchez, P. The right to active participation in the community: The Lived Experiences of Art.23 of the UNCRC for Children and Adolescents with SEN in Ireland. European Conference on Educational Research, Geneva. September 2021.