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David Jennings

Lecturer/Assistant Professor

David is the Director of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education. He is a Lecturer/Assistant Professor and an Educational Developer in UCD Teaching & Learning, and is the Programme Director for the UCD Teaching & Learning accredited professional programmes.

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Marie Clarke

Full Professor

Marie Clarke is a Full Professor of Education and Dean of Undergraduate Studies in UCD.

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Lisa Bennett

Lisa Bennett

Data Analyst

Lisa is a data analyst in UCD Institutional Research where she supports UCD strategic projects working with the Director of Institutional Research. She provides quantitative and qualitative analytical support to UCD and national surveys, including StudentSurvey.ie. She has been involved in projects including the Student Feedback on Modules review, Covid Learning at Distance surveys, EDI surveys and Athena Swan data support. She was a member of the StudentSurvey.ie National Report Editorial Board

Crystal Fulton

Crystal Fulton

Associate Professor

Crystal Fulton is an Associate Professor in UCD’s School of Information and Communication Studies. She is particularly interested in digital and media literacies leading to digital citizenship and digital resilience.  She has authored and co-authored two monographs, which incorporate her research for education.

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Amanda Gibney

Associate Professor

Associate Professor Amanda Gibney is a faculty member in the School of Civil Engineering. Amanda has research interests in highway materials and education. To date she has collaborated with colleagues on research projects relating to student transition to Higher Education, and the development and embedment of creativity and innovation within the curriculum, and curriculum design.

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Carmel Hensey

Associate Professor

Carmel Hensey is Vice-Principal for Teaching and Learning, UCD College of Science, and Associate Professor, UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science.

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Sheena Hyland

Lecturer/Assistant Professor

Sheena Hyland is Assistant Professor in Educational Development in UCD Teaching and Learning. She is Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Advance HE UK.

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Niamh Moore-Cherry

Professor

Niamh Moore-Cherry is a Professor in the School of Geography, Deputy College Principal in the UCD College of Social Sciences and Law, and a Principal Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (now Advance HE).

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Emma O'Neill

Emma O'Neill

Associate Professor

Emma is Associate Professor in Small Animal Medicine within the School of Veterinary Medicine.  A specialist clinician within the Veterinary Teaching Hospital and Programme Director for a postgraduate distance learning programme for practicing veterinarians, she has research interests in both veterinary medicine and education.

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Geraldine O’Neill

Associate Professor

Geraldine has led, supported and researched into many institutional teaching, learning and assessment projects in UCD and beyond. She was recently seconded to the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Ireland where she coordinated a national Enhancement Theme on 'Assessment OF, FOR and AS Learning'

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Sara O’Sullivan

Associate Professor

Sara O’Sullivan is an Associate Professor in Sociology at University College Dublin. She is currently serving as Associate Dean of Social Sciences in the UCD College of Social Sciences and Law. In 2015 she led an interdisciplinary project Existing Research Output focused on Higher Education Teaching and Learning in Ireland; (funded by National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education).

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Sue Rackard

Associate Dean

Sue is Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning in the School of Veterinary Medicine and Vice Principal for Teaching and Learning for the College of Health and Agricultural Sciences.

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Deirdre Raftery

Professor

Professor Deirdre Raftery is a historian of education at UCD School of Education, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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Elaine Wilson

Associate Dean

Elaine Wilson is the Associate Dean, Graduate Social Sciences, UCD and is an academic in the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Policy. Her primary areas of research interest include social work education, with a particular focus on practice learning, practice teaching and adult learning.

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Leigh Wolf

Leigh Graves Wolf

Assistant Professor

Leigh Graves Wolf is teacher-scholar and an Assistant Professor in Educational Development with the Centre for Teaching and Learning at UCD. Her work focuses on online education, critical digital pedagogy, educator professional development and relationships mediated by and with technology. She has worked across the educational spectrum from primary to higher to further and lifelong.  She believes passionately in collaboration and community.

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