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ProfConnolly

  1. Just chairing plenary session at Campbell Collaboration Colloquium with Estelle Morris & Lynn Okagaki bit.ly/Kc5rXP
  2. On my way to Copenhagen for the Campbell Collaboration Steering Group Meeting and Colloquium sfi.dk/Default.aspx?I…
  3. See details of our new NIHR-funded evaluation of "Roots of Empathy" programme. Randomised trial in 70 primary schools bit.ly/I6Kp8w
  4. Check out really useful guide "Rigorous Program Evaluations on a Budget" by Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy bit.ly/GLBSdT
  5. Attending my first Winter Graduation this evening as Head of School. Will be on stage proudly reading out the names of all our graduates!
  6. Appointed Head of School of Education at Queen's University Belfast today, to take up post on 1st December. Delighted and honoured!
  7. Junior ministers attend Improving Children's Lives event on "outcomes, partnership and planning" with 250 delegates bit.ly/qGL3wA
  8. Check out our new research initiative, Learn-a-Long, led by PhD students at Centre for Effective Education bit.ly/n5UnWk
  9. Improving Children's Lives: An interdisciplinary research initiative at Queen's. Check out the new website: improvingchildrenslives.org
  10. CEE report on pupils’ emotional health and wellbeing in Northern Ireland post-primary schools now available bit.ly/mYGHlN
  11. Simple example from @bengoldacre of why you need to correct for confounding variables when looking at causality guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/…
  12. Podcast of short talk I gave recently on being outcomes-focused and importance of randomised trials in education bit.ly/jHtp2a
  13. New article published in JECR: "Using survey data to explore preschool children’s ethnic awareness and attitudes" bit.ly/lf7RaG
  14. Is it time for Number 10 to set up a Policy Trials Unit? @bengoldacre bit.ly/kMMrOt
  15. First set of Una Working Papers on children and ethnic diversity now available to download http://bit.ly/jhojWK
  16. Book of abstracts for forthcoming Una Biennial Conference in Amsterdam now available to download as PDF http://bit.ly/kcVuc0
  17. "Building Peaceable Communities: The Power of Early Childhood" - full details of conference programme now online http://bit.ly/kcVuc0
  18. Our report of the evaluation of the effects of the Letterbox Club was launched this morning http://bit.ly/hSs3IL
  19. At American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, involved in three presentations http://bit.ly/gInrK5
  20. Free access to all articles in the journal Effective Education for month of April. Make sure you have a look! http://bit.ly/eLIEqR