As part of the Society’s Strategy 2025, the College has developed a comprehensive Research Strategy to underpin and inform teaching and learning across the Society. This strategy informs both staff and student research policy and procedure which have been approved by QQI as part of the College’s re-engagement process.

The SNMCI Research Strategy seeks to encourage both staff and learners to focus on those themes in education where preliminary evidence and practice suggests that the Montessori philosophy can add significant value to learning and development.

In particular, we seek to explore these themes in the broad context of the following THREE areas:

1. The Montessori Method
2. Special Education
3. Well-being and Education

Research Interests
The philosophy of religion, applied ethics, ancient philosophy, and educational philosophy.

Research Profile

Recent Publications

Doyle, S. (2019). ‘Kierkegaard’s commitment and loyalty to true faith’, Inscriptions, vol. 2, no. 2.

Doyle, S. (2016). ‘The Nature of Kierkegaard’s Relationship with Socrates’. Kierkegaard in Process, vol. 1.

Recent Conference Proceedings

Poland: The Presence of Plotinus Conference (June 2020)
‘The self, contemplation, and spiritual exercise in the Enneads’,
Paper: Plotinus: The Self as the Logos of the Particularized Soul

Philadelphia (USA): The American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Conference: ‘The Søren Kierkegaard Society Session’ (January 2020)
Paper: Gender and the Practical Dimensions of Kierkegaard’s Existential Philosophy

Valparaiso University, Indiana, (USA): ‘Religious Experience and Description’ (October 2019)
Paper: Kierkegaard: The True Nature of God and Faith

University of Cambridge: ‘Plato’s Alcibiades I’ (September 2018)
Paper: Re-cognizing Plato’s Concept of Self through Kierkegaard