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Principal Lecturer

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Principal Fellow of the HEA, Ed. D. (University of Leicester), M.Phil. (Applied Linguistics, Trinity College Dublin), M.Ed.(School Leadership, National University of Ireland), PG Cert Ed. (State University of New York), BA (History and Sociology, National University of Ireland).

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Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899, Aabi, M., Dalton, E. and El Jamyly, S. (2026) Promoting Transnational Partnership Equity by Enabling Inclusive Research for All. The Transformative role of IJUDUDL. In: Second International Conference on Equitable Partnerships, 3rd - 6th Feb, 2026, Pretoria, South Africa.
Lima, C., Schlünzen, E., Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 and Schlünzen Junior, K. (2025) Exploring the application of the CCM approach and UDL as conceptual frameworks to enhance inclusive teacher training through Lesson Study. Revista Brasileira de Estudos Pedagógicos, 106 (6473). pp. 1-17. ISSN e-ISSN: 2176-6681. ISSN (print): 0034-7183
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6525-9361 and Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 (2025) Learner Voices, Perspectives, and Positionings: Providing Agency to Empower Learning. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781003406334
Muzdalifah, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4468-215X, Kurniawati, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8484-4790, Mangunsong, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9399-0212, Setiamurti, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8574-3169, Levyadi, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6216-9177, Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 and Martono, W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8409-1161 (2025) Factors influencing faculty members’ implementation of universal design for learning in higher education: A Systematic Review. Innovations in Education and Teaching International. pp. 1-15. ISSN 1470-3297
Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899, Richardson, Emma ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7409-778X, Wilson, Helen, Kurnawati, F., Mangunsong, F. and Setiamurti, A. (2024) Strengthening Higher Education Inclusion in Indonesia and the UK through Universal Design for Learning (UDL). In: Breaking Barriers: UK-Indonesia Collaboration in Shaping Inclusive Futures, 5th December 2024, Soehanna Hall, South Jakarta, Indonesia. (Unpublished)
Silvia de Souza Lima, C., Tomoe Moriya Schlünzen, E., Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 and Schlünzen Junior, K. (2024) Lesson Study and the Constructionist, Contextualized, and Meaningful approach to facilitate Universal Design for Learning implementations. SocArXiv. pp. 1-23.
Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 (2024) Universal design for learning as an enabling framework for equity, diversity and inclusion. In: Curriculum in a Changing World: 50 think pieces on education, policy, practice, innovation and inclusion. Troubador Publishing, London, pp. 84-87. ISBN ISBN: 9781805144823 • eISBN: 9781836286684
Dalton, E., Jackson, R., Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899, Satar, A., Aabi, M., Khurana, A., Nicholas, L., Power, O. and Ewe, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1027-0269 (2023) Creating an International Collaboratory for Leadership in Universally Designed Education: INCLUDE as a Global Community of Practice. In: Building Inclusive Education in K-12 Classrooms and Higher Education: Theories and Principles. IGI Global, Hershey, Pennsylvania, pp. 1-20. ISBN ISBN13: 9781668473702 • ISBN10: 1668473704 • ISBN13 Softcover: 9781668473740 • EISBN13: 9781668473719
de Oliveira, J. P., Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899, Nakano, N. and Dart, Gareth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0630-9570 (2023) Lesson study as a pedagogical practice in higher education from an inclusive perspective: strategies and resources indicated by professors. Práxis Educativa, 18 (e21306). pp. 1-12. ISSN ISSN 1809-4031 eISSN 1809-4309
Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 (2021) What If? Reimagining the Concept of Universal Design for Education. In: Handbook of Research on Applying Universal Design for Learning Across Disciplines. Concepts, Case Studies and Practical Implementation. IGI Global, Pennsylvania, USA, xix-xxii. ISBN 9781799871064
Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899, Jackson, R., Aabi, M., Dalton, E., Abdool Satar, A., Kurhana, A. and Nichols, L. (2021) UDL on a Global Scale with INCLUDE (International Collaboratory for Leadership in Universally Designed Education). In: CAST information event, 14th April 2021.
Pinheiro de Olivera, J., Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 and Nakano, N. (2021) Preliminary Indicators of the use of Lesson Study as a Teaching Practice Capable of Enabling an Inclusive Perspective in Higher Education. Revista Brasileira de Educação Especial (Brazilian Journal of Special Education), 27. pp. 371-390. ISSN Print: 1413-6538 Online:1980-5470
Dart, Gareth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0630-9570, Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 and Pinheiro de Olivera, J. (2020) Assessment insights from the Margins: Garnering the Views of Learners with Disabilities Through Lesson Study. In: Assessment and Feedback Symposium 2020: Assessment and feedback in the pandemic era: A time for learning and inclusion, 28th October 2020, Virtual.
Costa Renders, E., Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 and Moco Aparicio, A.S. (2020) O Design Universal Para Apprendizagem e a Pedagogia das Estacoes: As Multiplas Temporalidades / Espacialidades do Aprender nas Escolas. Educação em Revista, 36. ISSN 0102-4698 (print ISSN), 1982-6621 (eISSN)
Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 (2020) Issues in Education Quality - Higher Education. Quality in Education, IV . University of Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Morocco. ISBN 978 9920 38 3073
Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 (2020) Issues in Quality Education - Curriculum and Instruction. Issues in Education Quality, III . University of Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Morocco. ISBN 978 9920 38 3073
Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 (2020) Issues in Education Quality - School Reform. Quality in Education, II . University of Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Morocco.. ISBN 978 9920 38 3073
Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 (2020) Issues in Quality Education - Teaching. Issues in Education Quality, I . University of Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Morocco. ISBN 978 9920 38 3073
Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 (2019) Developing a Systematic Whole School Approach to Inclusive Practice through Universal Design for Learning. Educational Developments, 20 (1). pp. 24-27. ISSN 1469-3267
Soler Costa, R. and Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 (2019) Creating Synergies Between UDL and Core Principles of the European Higher Education Area in Planning for Pre-service Teacher Education. In: Transforming Higher Education Through Universal Design for Learning: An International Perspective. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 258-276. ISBN Paperback:9780815354734 Hardback: 9780815354727, ePub ebook: ‎9781351132053
Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 and Novak, K. (2019) Universal Design for Learning a Global Framework for Realising Inclusive Practice in Higher Education. In: Transforming Higher Education Through Universal Design for Learning: An International Perspective. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 346-357. ISBN Paperback: 9780815354734 Hardback: 9780815354727 eBook: ‎9781351132077 9781351132053
Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 and Novak, K. (2019) Transforming Higher Education Through Universal Design for Learning: An International Perspective. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN Paperback: 9780815354734 Hardback: 9780815354727 eBook: 9781351132077
Hanesworth, P., Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 and Elkington, S. (2019) A Typology for a Social Justice Approach to Assessment: Learning from Universal Design and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy. Teaching in Higher Education, 24 (1). pp. 98-114. ISSN Print: 1356-2517 Online: 1470-1294
Olivera, J., Rodrigues, E. and Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 (2017) Supports for the Schooling of Students From the Target Audience of Special Education. Suportes para a escolarização de estudantes do público-alvo da Educação Especial. Revista De Estudios E Investigación En Psicología Y Educación, 11. 080-084. ISSN 2386-7418
Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 (2017) Multilingualism: Overcoming Policy Constraints. In: Understanding Inclusion: Core concepts, policy and practice. Routledge, Oxon, pp. 58-70. ISBN 9781138241688 Online: 9781315279893
Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899, Driver, C. and Kadi-Hanifi, Karima (2016) Teaching English as an Additional Language in Secondary Schools. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 978-1-138-78351-5
Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 (2014) From National Policies and Sentiments to Local Practices and Subjectivities: Mapping Immigrant Educational Identities in a Semi-Rural Locale. Sage Open, 4 (1). ISSN Online: 2158-2440
Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899, Dart, Gareth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0630-9570 and Pickering, Stephen (2011) Evolution or Revolution? An Analysis of the Changing Faces of Development Education in the United Kingdom. Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review, 12.
Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899 (2010) Discussing the Importance of Ontology and Epistemology Awareness in Practitioner Research. Worcester Journal of Learning and Teaching (4). ISSN 2024-8032
Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899, Daly, N., Duke, R., O'Rourke, D. and Pérez Piñán, A. (2009) Volunteering Charter: For Volunteer Pre-service and Practicing Teachers Who Wish to Work in an Educational Context in Countries of the Global South. Dublin: DICE Project. Development and Intercultural Education, Dublin.
Bracken, Seán ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-4899, Clerkin, Á., Mc Donnell, B. and Regan, N. (2008) Teaching and Learning in Plurilingual Schools: Lessons from Classrooms in Dublin 15. In: Challenging Perspectives: Teaching Globalisation and Diversity in the Knowledge Society. DICE, Dublin, pp. 51-65.

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1.	Discussing the Importance of Ontology and Epistemology Awareness in Practitioner Research.	13337	12490
2.	Developing a Systematic Whole School Approach to Inclusive Practice through Universal Design for Learning	489	309
3.	Evolution or Revolution? An Analysis of the Changing Faces of Development Education in the United Kingdom.	416	194
4.	Teaching and Learning in Plurilingual Schools: Lessons from Classrooms in Dublin 15	353
5.	Transforming Higher Education Through Universal Design for Learning: An International Perspective	313
6.	Volunteering Charter: For Volunteer Pre-service and Practicing Teachers Who Wish to Work in an Educational Context in Countries of the Global South. Dublin: DICE Project.	292
7.	A Typology for a Social Justice Approach to Assessment: Learning from Universal Design and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy	290	1663
8.	What If? Reimagining the Concept of Universal Design for Education	273	165
9.	Issues in Quality Education - Curriculum and Instruction	263	172
10.	From National Policies and Sentiments to Local Practices and Subjectivities: Mapping Immigrant Educational Identities in a Semi-Rural Locale.	255	51
11.	UDL on a Global Scale with INCLUDE (International Collaboratory for Leadership in Universally Designed Education).	234	61
12.	Teaching English as an Additional Language in Secondary Schools	231	2
13.	Universal Design for Learning a Global Framework for Realising Inclusive Practice in Higher Education	231
14.	Issues in Education Quality - Higher Education	213	445
15.	Multilingualism: Overcoming Policy Constraints	210
16.	O Design Universal Para Apprendizagem e a Pedagogia das Estacoes: As Multiplas Temporalidades / Espacialidades do Aprender nas Escolas.	192	108
17.	Supports for the Schooling of Students From the Target Audience of Special Education. Suportes para a escolarização de estudantes do público-alvo da Educação Especial	177	44
18.	Creating Synergies Between UDL and Core Principles of the European Higher Education Area in Planning for Pre-service Teacher Education	169
19.	Universal design for learning as an enabling framework for equity, diversity and inclusion	167	45
20.	Issues in Education Quality - School Reform	164	227
21.	Preliminary Indicators of the use of Lesson Study as a Teaching Practice Capable of Enabling an Inclusive Perspective in Higher Education	163	43
22.	Lesson study as a pedagogical practice in higher education from an inclusive perspective: strategies and resources indicated by professors	155	16
23.	Issues in Quality Education - Teaching	143	213
24.	Lesson Study and the Constructionist, Contextualized, and Meaningful approach to facilitate Universal Design for Learning implementations	137	54
25.	Assessment insights from the Margins: Garnering the Views of Learners with Disabilities Through Lesson Study	137	39
26.	Strengthening Higher Education Inclusion in Indonesia and the UK through Universal Design for Learning (UDL)	126
27.	Creating an International Collaboratory for Leadership in Universally Designed Education: INCLUDE as a Global Community of Practice	124
28.	Learner Voices, Perspectives, and Positionings: Providing Agency to Empower Learning	76
29.	Factors influencing faculty members’ implementation of universal design for learning in higher education: A Systematic Review	49
30.	Promoting Transnational Partnership Equity by Enabling Inclusive Research for All. The Transformative role of IJUDUDL	10
31.	Exploring the application of the CCM approach and UDL as conceptual frameworks to enhance inclusive teacher training through Lesson Study	5	8

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