Sustainable Leadership
Irish Principals and Deputy Principals Health and Wellbeing Research
Click here for an overview of the research project, initiated in 2022
2024 Health and Wellbeing Report
Phase 3 of the research began in February 2024. The resulting report was published in November 2024.
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2023 Health and Wellbeing Report
Phase 2 of the research began in February 2023. The resulting report was published in October 2023.
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2022 Health and Wellbeing Report
Significant numbers of primary school leaders engaged with the survey in 2022.
The data gleaned from this research revealed that the incidence of burnout, stress and depressive symptoms among Irish primary school leaders was almost double that of the healthy working population and more than double for sleeping troubles and cognitive stress.
Also notable was that the scores for burnout, stress, sleeping troubles, depressive symptoms, somatic stress and cognitive stress have all increased since the previous study undertaken in 2015.
