Shane Mcloughlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3659204 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shane Mcloughlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shane |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcloughlin |
| SIGNATURE | MCLOUGHLIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2354-5439 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Practical wisdom in medicine
By defending practical wisdom ( phronesis ) as a multidimensional virtue that complements the moral virtues, we offer a critique of “practical wisdom eliminativism”, with special attention to the context of medicine, arguing that the core dimensions of practical wisdom enjoy broad consensus. As the meta-virtue that demonstrates excellence in ethical decision-making, practical wisdom recognizes and employs the best means to achieve good and worthw…
Character education empirical research
Character Education Empirical Research (CEER) is a rapidly emerging field, but no thematic overview is available. This study aimed to fill this gap in the research, generating a thematic map of the CEER, then comparing it to empirical research from the fields of Moral Education (ME) and Positive Education (PE). PRISMA guidelines were followed to conduct a systematic search of the Web of Science and Scopus databases. 222 CEER articles were identif…
Single‐subject designs in character education
Character education research is often constrained by blunt methodological tools. Surveys capture breadth without depth; case studies offer richness but lack replicability; and randomised controlled trials (RCTs), though indispensable at the policy level, are costly, disruptive and ill‐suited to everyday practice with individual pupils. More troublingly, they often invite an ergodic fallacy: assuming that what works on average must work for each i…
Character education and academic progression in English schools
This paper offers the first large-scale evaluation of whether school-level educational approaches that aim to cultivate character are associated with academic progression. Using the most comprehensive longitudinal dataset available from the Department for Education in England, Study 1 analysed over 3,000 secondary schools and approximately three million pupils annually (2016–2024). The primary outcome was Progress 8, England’s value-added measure…
Character Education Research
Character education has become an established field within education research. However, no overview of this rapidly evolving field is available, and several previous methodological concerns about the field, including the use of valid measures and of robust quantitative research protocols, remain unaddressed. The purpose of this review is to fill this gap in the literature, addressing the following research questions: RQ1: What is the current publ…
Practical wisdom, emerging technologies, and AI
Virtues as protective factors for adolescent mental health
This paper explores the decline in adolescent mental health and the weakening of traditional moral frameworks, positing education in the virtues as protective of mental health due to the intrinsic link between moral/existential wellbeing and psychological health. By integrating character education into school curricula, a continuous "dosage" of moral guidance may be an optimal way to ensure a gradual and ever-clearer articulation of a life worth …
Moral Reasoning Strategies and Wise Career Decision Making at School and University
Ofsted requires UK schools to help students understand the working world and gain employability skills. However, the aims of education are much broader: Education should enable flourishing long after leaving school. Therefore, students’ career decisions should be conducive to long-term flourishing beyond career readiness and educational attainment. In this mixed-methods study, we asked a representative sample of UK adults to reflect on their care…
The impact of the SMART program on cognitive and academic skills
Risk factors for intimate partner homicide in England and Wales
Intimate partner homicides are often situated within the context of domestic abuse, and although less prevalent than domestic abuse, there have been several multi-agency approaches to understanding the risk for these fatal crimes. Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) were introduced in 2011 to provide information to help with assessing such risk. This paper aims to analyse DHRs in England and Wales to investigate/determine risk factors for domestic h…
Acceptance and values clarification versus cognitive restructuring and relaxation
Adolescents’ Lockdown-Induced Coping Experiences (Alice) Study
The aim of this study was to explore the experiences and perceived impact of the COVID-19 lockdowns among early adolescents in the northwest of England, as well as explore the self-care and coping strategies that helped the young people continue to thrive. Fourteen adolescents, 9 boys and 5 girls, were recruited from four secondary schools in North West England. Remote online interviews were conducted. Inductive reflexive thematic analysis was us…
An emerging typology of IT governance structural mechanisms in smart cities
Anticipatory versus reactive spatial attentional bias to threat
Dot‐probe or visual probe tasks (VPTs) are used extensively to measure attentional biases. A novel variant termed the cued VPT (cVPT) was developed to focus on the anticipatory component of attentional bias. This study aimed to establish an anticipatory attentional bias to threat using the cVPT and compare its split‐half reliability with a typical dot‐probe task. A total of 120 students performed the cVPT task and dot‐probe tasks. Essentially, th…
Empirical advances in studying relational networks
Risk factors for intimate partner homicide in England and Wales
Intimate partner homicides are often situated within the context of domestic abuse, and although less prevalent than domestic abuse, there have been several multi-agency approaches to understanding the risk for these fatal crimes. Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) were introduced in 2011 to provide information to help with assessing such risk. This paper aims to analyse DHRs in England and Wales to investigate/determine risk factors for domestic h…
Virtues as protective factors for adolescent mental health
This paper explores the decline in adolescent mental health and the weakening of traditional moral frameworks, positing education in the virtues as protective of mental health due to the intrinsic link between moral/existential wellbeing and psychological health. By integrating character education into school curricula, a continuous "dosage" of moral guidance may be an optimal way to ensure a gradual and ever-clearer articulation of a life worth …
Adolescents’ Lockdown-Induced Coping Experiences (Alice) Study
The aim of this study was to explore the experiences and perceived impact of the COVID-19 lockdowns among early adolescents in the northwest of England, as well as explore the self-care and coping strategies that helped the young people continue to thrive. Fourteen adolescents, 9 boys and 5 girls, were recruited from four secondary schools in North West England. Remote online interviews were conducted. Inductive reflexive thematic analysis was us…
An emerging typology of IT governance structural mechanisms in smart cities
Empirical advances in studying relational networks
Anticipatory versus reactive spatial attentional bias to threat
Dot‐probe or visual probe tasks (VPTs) are used extensively to measure attentional biases. A novel variant termed the cued VPT (cVPT) was developed to focus on the anticipatory component of attentional bias. This study aimed to establish an anticipatory attentional bias to threat using the cVPT and compare its split‐half reliability with a typical dot‐probe task. A total of 120 students performed the cVPT task and dot‐probe tasks. Essentially, th…
An emerging typology of IT governance structural mechanisms in smart cities
Acceptance and values clarification versus cognitive restructuring and relaxation
Adolescents’ Lockdown-Induced Coping Experiences (Alice) Study
The aim of this study was to explore the experiences and perceived impact of the COVID-19 lockdowns among early adolescents in the northwest of England, as well as explore the self-care and coping strategies that helped the young people continue to thrive. Fourteen adolescents, 9 boys and 5 girls, were recruited from four secondary schools in North West England. Remote online interviews were conducted. Inductive reflexive thematic analysis was us…
The impact of the SMART program on cognitive and academic skills
Risk factors for intimate partner homicide in England and Wales
Intimate partner homicides are often situated within the context of domestic abuse, and although less prevalent than domestic abuse, there have been several multi-agency approaches to understanding the risk for these fatal crimes. Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) were introduced in 2011 to provide information to help with assessing such risk. This paper aims to analyse DHRs in England and Wales to investigate/determine risk factors for domestic h…
Moral Reasoning Strategies and Wise Career Decision Making at School and University
Ofsted requires UK schools to help students understand the working world and gain employability skills. However, the aims of education are much broader: Education should enable flourishing long after leaving school. Therefore, students’ career decisions should be conducive to long-term flourishing beyond career readiness and educational attainment. In this mixed-methods study, we asked a representative sample of UK adults to reflect on their care…
Virtues as protective factors for adolescent mental health
This paper explores the decline in adolescent mental health and the weakening of traditional moral frameworks, positing education in the virtues as protective of mental health due to the intrinsic link between moral/existential wellbeing and psychological health. By integrating character education into school curricula, a continuous "dosage" of moral guidance may be an optimal way to ensure a gradual and ever-clearer articulation of a life worth …
Practical wisdom in medicine
By defending practical wisdom ( phronesis ) as a multidimensional virtue that complements the moral virtues, we offer a critique of “practical wisdom eliminativism”, with special attention to the context of medicine, arguing that the core dimensions of practical wisdom enjoy broad consensus. As the meta-virtue that demonstrates excellence in ethical decision-making, practical wisdom recognizes and employs the best means to achieve good and worthw…
Character education empirical research
Character Education Empirical Research (CEER) is a rapidly emerging field, but no thematic overview is available. This study aimed to fill this gap in the research, generating a thematic map of the CEER, then comparing it to empirical research from the fields of Moral Education (ME) and Positive Education (PE). PRISMA guidelines were followed to conduct a systematic search of the Web of Science and Scopus databases. 222 CEER articles were identif…
Single‐subject designs in character education
Character education research is often constrained by blunt methodological tools. Surveys capture breadth without depth; case studies offer richness but lack replicability; and randomised controlled trials (RCTs), though indispensable at the policy level, are costly, disruptive and ill‐suited to everyday practice with individual pupils. More troublingly, they often invite an ergodic fallacy: assuming that what works on average must work for each i…
Character education and academic progression in English schools
This paper offers the first large-scale evaluation of whether school-level educational approaches that aim to cultivate character are associated with academic progression. Using the most comprehensive longitudinal dataset available from the Department for Education in England, Study 1 analysed over 3,000 secondary schools and approximately three million pupils annually (2016–2024). The primary outcome was Progress 8, England’s value-added measure…
Character Education Research
Character education has become an established field within education research. However, no overview of this rapidly evolving field is available, and several previous methodological concerns about the field, including the use of valid measures and of robust quantitative research protocols, remain unaddressed. The purpose of this review is to fill this gap in the literature, addressing the following research questions: RQ1: What is the current publ…
Practical wisdom, emerging technologies, and AI
Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Character education (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Values and Moral Education (4 works) · Character (mathematics) (3 works) · Education and Critical Thinking Development (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Political science (3 works)