Paul Connolly is Professor of Education at

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and also holds the

Donald Dewar Donald Campbell Dewar (21 August 1937 – 11 October 2000) was a Scottish politician who served as the inaugural First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Labour Party in Scotland from 1999 until his death in 2000. He previously served as ...

Visiting Chair in Social Justice and Public Policy at the

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. He is Director of the Centre for Effective Education and is also the founding editor of the international peer-reviewed academic journal, ''Effective Education''. Connolly is founder and Co-Director of Una - A Global Learning Initiative on Children and Ethnic Diversity. Una comprises a core network of over 70 leading researchers and practitioners from 31 different countries and seeks to support the development of

early childhood Early childhood is a stage in human development following infancy and preceding middle childhood. It generally includes toddlerhood and some time afterward. Play age is an unspecific designation approximately within the scope of early childhood. ...

programmes that address the negative effects of

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and

ethnic An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ...

divisions and conflict on young children's lives. On 12 October 2017 he became a

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences The Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) is an award granted by the Academy of Social Sciences to leading academics, policy-makers, and practitioners of the social sciences. Fellows were previously known as Academicians and used th ...

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External links

Paul Connolly's personal website
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