Aidan is currently serving as Interim CEO of the ERC. Since joining the ERC in 2007, his work has included large-scale national and international assessments of student achievement at primary level, including TIMSS, PIRLS, and National Assessments, as well as study of social and personal development and student participation in Transition Year at post-primary level. He has also overseen the development of the ERC DOTS online testing platform, which was made available to schools in 2021 and has been nominated for two eAssessment Awards (Best Summative Assessment Project and Best Transformational Project). Aidan’s research interests include student engagement and wellbeing, socioemotional development in childhood and adolescence, factors supporting learning in the classroom, and the promotion of positive development among young people. He has a BSc (Psychology) from Queen’s University Belfast, and a PhD (Education) from Dublin City University.