2025

Moynihan, Denis ORCID: 0000-0001-6148-5513, Whelan, Peter, Usher, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-5214-9817, Broderick, Nicola ORCID: 0000-0001-5926-0331 and McMorrough, Anne ORCID: 0000-0003-3340-0804 (2025) FIRST LEGO League Explore UNEARTHED Teacher Guide for Ireland. Creative Hut, Dublin.

Barry, Maria ORCID: 0000-0003-2522-5006, Mallon, Benjamin ORCID: 0000-0002-8764-9712, Bourke, Ashling, Usher, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-5214-9817 and Daly, A. (2025) Spaces between importance and enactment: building from teachers’ everyday understanding of, and capacity for, global citizenship education. Irish Educational Studies . ISSN 0332-3315

2024

Binimelis Sebastián, Jaume ORCID: 0000-0002-5256-0371, Usher, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-5214-9817 and Bagoly-Simó, Péter ORCID: 0000-0001-9224-9142 (2024) Primary Education teachers’ academic, employment, personal and geographical context and the development of active geographical learning methodologies in Spain. Cuadernos Geográficos, 63 (2). pp. 74-91. ISSN 2011-0170

Tiernan, Peter ORCID: 0000-0001-5076-8905, Martin, Matthew, Usher, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-5214-9817 and McGivern, Karen (2024) INVITE: Inclusion of Newcomers - Video Diaries in Initial Teacher Education. Project Report. DCU/SCoTENS.

Usher, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-5214-9817, Clarke, Lisa ORCID: 0009-0007-6119-678X and Mallon, Benjamin ORCID: 0000-0002-8764-9712 (2024) Rote Learning is Wrote Off. Teaching about Mountains in Primary Geography. In Touch . pp. 66-67.

Butler, Deirdre ORCID: 0000-0001-7166-3707, Usher, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-5214-9817, Moynihan, Denis ORCID: 0000-0001-6148-5513, McMorrough, Anne ORCID: 0000-0003-3340-0804 and Broderick, Nicola ORCID: 0000-0001-5926-0331 (2024) FIRST LEGO League Explore SUBMERGED Teacher Guide for Ireland. The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

2023

Usher, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-5214-9817 (2023) Conceptual framework for the participation of children in local area planning decision-making processes through primary geography education. Irish Educational Studies, 42 (4). pp. 583-597. ISSN 1747-4965

Binimelis Sebastián, Jaume ORCID: 0000-0002-5256-0371, Usher, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-5214-9817 and Bagoly-Simó, Péter ORCID: 0000-0001-9224-9142 (2023) How is Geography taught at Primary Education centers in Spain? Results of a state-wide study. Boletín De La Asociación Española De Geografía, 98 .

Usher, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-5214-9817 (2023) Conceptual framework for the participation of children in local area planning decision-making processes through primary geography education. Irish Educational Studies, 42 (4). pp. 583-597. ISSN 1747-4965

McGuirk, Niamh ORCID: 0000-0002-3025-7005 (2023) Education about Religions and Beliefs. In: Pike, Susan ORCID: 0000-0001-6476-5465, Ní Cassaithe, Caitríona ORCID: 0000-0002-4772-1994, McGuirk, Niamh ORCID: 0000-0002-3025-7005, Usher, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-5214-9817, Mallon, Benjamin ORCID: 0000-0002-8764-9712 and Whelan, Peter ORCID: 0000-0001-6299-7801, (eds.) Social and Environmental Education: A Review of Research and Scholarship in Geography, History and Education about Religions and Beliefs in the Context of the Redeveloped Irish Primary School Curriculum. National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA), Dublin, Ireland, pp. 85-100.

Pike, Susan, Ni Cassaithe, Caitriona ORCID: 0000-0002-4772-1994, McGuirk, Niamh ORCID: 0000-0002-3025-7005, Usher, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-5214-9817, Mallon, Benjamin ORCID: 0000-0002-8764-9712 and Whelan, Peter (2023) A Review of Research and Scholarship in Geography, History and Education about Religions and Beliefs in the Context of the Redeveloped Irish Primary School Curriculum. Technical Report. DCU/Trinity College.

Barry, Maria ORCID: 0000-0003-2522-5006, Mallon, Benjamin ORCID: 0000-0002-8764-9712, Bourke, Ashling, Usher, Joe and Daly, Anna (2023) Teachers and Global Citizenship Education: Values, Attitudes and Practices A Research Report on a National Survey of Irish Primary Teachers and Global Citizenship Education. Research Report 1 for Global Village consortium partners and Irish Aid . pp. 1-36.

Butler, Deirdre ORCID: 0000-0001-7166-3707, Broderick, Nicola ORCID: 0000-0001-5926-0331, Usher, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-5214-9817, Moynihan, Denis ORCID: 0000-0001-6148-5513 and McMorrough, Anne ORCID: 0000-0003-3340-0804 (2023) FIRST LEGO League Explore MASTERPIECE Teacher Guide for Ireland. The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

Barry, Maria ORCID: 0000-0003-2522-5006, Mallon, Benjamin ORCID: 0000-0002-8764-9712, Bourke, Ashling, Usher, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-5214-9817 and Daly, Anna (2023) Teachers and Global Citizenship Education Values Attitudes and Practices. Project Report. Global Village.

2022

Usher, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-5214-9817 and Dolan, Anne M. (2022) Linking Localities. InTouch . pp. 38-39. ISSN 2009-6887

Butler, Deirdre ORCID: 0000-0001-7166-3707, Broderick, Nicola ORCID: 0000-0001-5926-0331, Usher, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-5214-9817 and Moynihan, Denis ORCID: 0000-0001-6148-5513 (2022) FIRST LEGO League Explore SUPERPOWERED Teacher Guide for Ireland. The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

Butler, Deirdre, Broderick, Nicola, Usher, Joe and Moynihan, Denis (2022) First LEGO League Explore Cargo Connect Teacher Guide for Ireland. Dublin City University.

Usher, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-5214-9817 and Moynihan, Denis ORCID: 0000-0001-6148-5513 (2022) The Future is Mine (Geography Ed and Minecraft). Primary Geography, 108 . pp. 26-28. ISSN 2046-0090

Usher, Joe and Moynihan, Denis ORCID: 0000-0001-6148-5513 (2022) The future is mine. Primary Geography (108). pp. 1-3. ISSN 2046-0082

2021

Usher, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-5214-9817 (2021) Teaching the Counties: Developing Sense of Space and Sense of Place with Google Earth. InTouch . pp. 42-43. ISSN 2009-6887

Usher, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-5214-9817 (2021) Powerful primary geography: a toolkit for 21st century Learning: by Anne M. Dolan, London, Routledge, 2020, 268 pp., 96. Irish Educational Studies, 40 (4). pp. 689-691. ISSN 1747-4965

Butler, Deirdre ORCID: 0000-0001-7166-3707, Broderick, Nicola ORCID: 0000-0001-5926-0331, Usher, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-5214-9817 and Moynihan, Denis ORCID: 0000-0001-6148-5513 (2021) FIRST LEGO League Explore Cargo Connect Teacher Guide for Ireland. The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

2020

Dolan, Anne M. and Usher, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-5214-9817 (2020) The geography of COVID-19. InTouch . pp. 52-53. ISSN 2009-6887

2011

Murphy, Enda and Usher, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-5214-9817 (2011) An Analysis of the Role of Bicycle-sharing in a European City: The Case of Dublin, Ireland. In: ITRN Conference 2011, 31 August - 1 Sept. 2011, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.