Dr. Gavin Duffy is a senior lecturer and the Programme Director of the MSc Educational Leadership Programme at the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast. Gavin is a member of the Centre for Shared Education at the School and a member of the Centre for Leadership, Ethics and Organisation at the Queen’s Management School and a member of the Queens Community and Place (QCAP) research team.
Main areas of research include: shared education and the role of education in divided societies; effective collaboration between schools; school improvement and teacher professional development; educational leadership; school exclusion and education in custodial settings.
Gavin works directly with teachers and leaders in schools in various jurisdictions including: Northern Ireland, Israel, Palestine, Southeast Europe and the United States to promote collaboration, school improvement and social cohesion.
Recent Publications:
Duffy, G., Bridgeman, J., Froustis, E., Taylor, A., & Daniels, H. (2025). Young peoples’ experiences of exclusion from school in the political economies of the four UK jurisdictions. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, 1-15.
Duffy, G., Gallagher, T., Lundy, L., Robinson, G., & Templeton, M. (2024). The political economy of school exclusion in Northern Ireland: the intersection of perspectives from mainstream education, alternative provision and an official education body. Oxford Review of Education, 50(6), 876-892.
McCluskey, G., Duffy, G., Power, S., Robinson, G., Tawell, A., Taylor, A., & Thompson, I. (2024). School exclusion policies across the UK: convergence and divergence. Oxford Review of Education, 50(6), 760-776.
Duffy, G., Gallagher, T., & Robinson, G. (2022). Teaching History and Citizenship in Schools in Northern Ireland. In Activist Pedagogy and Shared Education in Divided Societies (pp. 253-270). Brill.
Duffy, G., Robinson, G., Gallagher, T., & Templeton, M. (2021). School exclusion disparities in the UK: a view from Northern Ireland. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, 26(1), 3-18.
