Staff Profile

Stephen McKinney is a Professor of Education and Head of the Pedagogy, Praxis and Faith Research and Teaching Group (RTG) at the University of Glasgow. He is a visiting professor in Catholic Education at Newman University in Birmingham and is an Associate Member of the Irish Institute of Catholic Studies. He is a past President of the Scottish Educational Research Association and continues to serve on the Executive. He is a member of the European Educational Research Association Council. He is a past co-editor of the Scottish Educational Review. He is on the editorial boards of a number of international academic journals including: The Journal of Beliefs and Values, Improving Schools, and FWU Journal. 

He was a member of the British Educational Research Association Poverty and Policy Advocacy Research Commission. https://www.bera.ac.uk/event-series/research-commission-poverty-and-poli.... Forthcoming book: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/poverty-in-education-across-...

His involvement in research projects has included:

Schools Improvement Partnership Programme (SIPP) https://education.gov.scot/improvement/research/the-school-improvement-p...

 Portfolio of integration https://ec.europa.eu/budget/euprojects/project/70f1225a022bbc3afb1fe1e7d...

Knowledge into Action http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/112299/

Actions of Lifelong Learning addressing Multicultural Education and Tolerance in Russia (ALLMEET) http://www.sfu-kras.ru/en/projects/8915

His research interests include: Catholic Schools; Catholic Education; Faith Schooling; Religious Education; Sectarianism; Sectarianism and Faith schools; Poverty, deprivation and school education; Social Justice and Catholic schools. He has published extensively on these topics

Selected Publications: 

McKinney, S.J. and McCluskey, R. (2019) A History of Catholic Education and Schooling  in Scotland: New Perspectives. Palgrave MacMillan.

McKinney, S.J., Francis, L. and McKenna, U. (2019) Assessing Sectarian Attitudes among Catholic Adolescents in Scotland. Journal of Beliefs and Values.

McKinney, S.J. (2018) The Need for Dialogue in the Strategies to Combat Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Contemporary Scotland. In Race, R. (ed) Advancing Multicultural Dialogues in Education. Palgrave Macmillan (pp. 177-194) ISBN 978-3-319-60557-9. 

Ivinson, G., Thompson, I., Beckett, L., Egan, D., Leitch, R. and McKinney, S. (2017) Learning the price of poverty across the UK. Policy Futures in Education. Special Issue: From Critical Research to Policy. Published online 25 October 2017.

McKinney, S.J. (2014) The relationship of child poverty to school education. Improving Schools 17 (3), 203-216.

McKinney, S.J. and Sullivan, J., (Eds.) (2013) Education in a Catholic Perspective. Ashgate, Farnham, UK. ISBN 9781409452713

McCluskey, R. and McKinney, S.J., (Eds.) (2013) How the Teacher is Represented in Literature, History, Religion and the Arts: Cross Cultural Analysis of a Stereotype. Edwin Mellen Press, Lampeter, UK. ISBN 9780773445208

McKinney, S., Hall, S., Lowden, K., McClung, M., and Cameron, L. (2013) Supporting school leavers in areas of deprivation into initial positive leaver destinations. Improving Schools, 16 (1). pp. 67-83. ISSN 1365-4802 (doi:10.1177/1365480213476366)