Irish Principal & Deputy Principal Health and Wellbeing Survey
- Published: 03 February 2022
IPPN, and our sister organisation at post-primary level, the National Association of Principal and Deputy Principals (NAPD), are the professional bodies for school leaders in Ireland. We seek to support and empower you with the provision of supports and services but we are also committed to ensuring that you have more time and space to maintain a focus on your core purpose of leading teaching and learning.
IPPN and NAPD have a shared concern that the increasing complexity and workload demands of school leadership roles are impacting on the health and well-being of Irish school leaders. Accordingly, we have teamed up to commission Professor Philip Riley, and his research team from Deakin University in Australia, to undertake the Irish Principal and Deputy Principal Health and Wellbeing Survey with school leaders in Ireland. This will form an important part of the Sustainable Leadership project.
Principals and deputy principals in our primary and post-primary schools will have the opportunity of engaging with this longitudinal study over a three-year period from 2022 to 2024. All participants will receive an instant, individualised report on their personal health and wellbeing status on completion of the survey. The research should also generate rich data that will benefit school leadership, schools and the wider education system. If you would like to find out more information about the research project, check out Dr Ben Arnold’s video on our website. This will give you a greater insight into what is involved in the project and what the learnings were from the previous research undertaken in Ireland.
This year, the window of opportunity for you to engage with the survey will be from Monday 28th February to Friday 8th April. While it is preferable that you would complete the survey in one sitting, it can be completed over a number of sittings as all data is saved each time you log on. We will provide you with further details of how to access the survey closer to the start date of 28th February. We would encourage all members to undertake and get involved in this important research survey.
