Early Learning Initiative

Assistant Director

086 467 2204

lana.cummins@ncirl.ie

Research Publications

Book Chapters

• Alcala, Alexandra, Darmody, Kate, Dennehy, Holly, White, Fay and Cummins, Lána (2023) "Your Children, Your Say: Experiences of Meitheal in the Dublin Mid Leinster Area". In: Prevention and Early Intervention Summit. PEIN, Limerick, Ireland. 
• Cummins, Lána, Goulding, Sonya, Alcala, Alexandra, O'Neill, Siobhán and Dennehy, Holly (2023) "Experiences of Engaging with the Parenting365 Programme". In: European Early Childhood Education Research Association 31st Conference (EECERA). EECERA, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Cummins, Lána (2023) "Exploring Social Class Dynamics in Parental Experiences of Children’s Disability Services". In: Prevention and Early Intervention Summit. PEIN, Limerick, Ireland.
• Cummins, Lána, Alcala, Alexandra, O'Neill, Siobhán and Darmody, Kate (2023) "Longitudinal Studies with Families in Disadvantaged and Transient Communities- what works?" In: Collaborative Action Research Network Conference (CARN). CARN, Manchester, England. 
• Cummins, Lána and Byrne, Marion (2022) "My Place Play: Creating a safe play space for infants living in emergency accommodation". In: European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA) Conference. EECERA, Glasgow, Scotland.

Conference Items

• Cummins, Lána and Byrne, Marion (2022) My Place to Play: Creating a safe play space for infants, the story so far. In: Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN) Conference, 28-30 October 2022, Dublin, Ireland.
• Cummins, Lána (2022) My Place to Play - interagency collaboration in creating safe spaces to play for infants and toddlers living in international protection and emergency accommodation. In: End Child Poverty Week – Day Three- Play, Recreation and Participation, 12-16 September 2022, Dublin, Ireland. 
• Cummins, Lána (2019) My Place to Play - An Interagency Response to Support Infants and Parents Living in Emergency Homeless Accommodation. In: PPFS National Conference 2019, 4-5 December 2019, Hotel Kilkenny, Ireland. 
• Cummins, Lána and Connell, Glenn (2019) "Robotic Coding Clubs: A Community Action Research Project". In: National College of Ireland Research Day, 14 June 2019, National College of Ireland, Dublin.
• Cummins, Lána (2018) "Finding my voice in a well-established community action research project: lessons learned". In: 8th International Action Research Colloquium, 28th-29th June 2018, O’Brien Science Centre, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4.