Past Research Projects
2021
Building meaningful relationships through structured and reflexive dialogue: Academic advising in the Social Sciences undergraduate curriculum.
- Principal Investigator: Associate Professor Sara O'Sullivan.
- Funded: HEA/National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning.
Systematic Review of Scholarship on Teaching and Learning in Irish Higher Education (2015-2021).
- Principal Investigator: Associate Professor Sara O'Sullivan.
- Funded: National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning.
Work-based Assessment: Exploring barriers and solutions to an emerging assessment challenge.
- Principal Investigator: Associate Professor Geraldine O'Neill.
- Funded: National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning.
2020
Digital Methods and Data Literacy.
- Principal Investigator: Professor Gerardine Meaney, UCD School of English, Drama and Film.
- Funded: National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning and HEA.
Computational Science: A Collaborative Approach To Engaging Stage 1 Science Students in Computational Thinking.
- Principal Investigators: Associate Professor Ted Cox and Associate Professor Maria Meehan, UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Funded: National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning and HEA.
Creating a Core Academic Integrity Model for Plagiarism Avoidence.
- Principal Investigators: Mr Peter Hickey UCD Library and Professor Anne Drummond, UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science.
- Funded: National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning and HEA.
Embedding Virtual Reality Radiography Training To Enhance the Student Learning Experience.
- Principal Investigator: Professor Louise Rainford, UCD School of Medicine.
- Funded: National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning and HEA.
2019
Supporting Student Success - A Collaborative Approach to Enhancing Engagement, Employability and Life Skills.
- Principal Investigators: Associate Professor Sue Rackard and Professor Jason Last.
- Funded: HEA (DCU and UCD project, 2018-2021).
Researching Diversity, Inclusion and Student Success: Towards a Global Campus Climate Framework.
- Principal Investigator UCD: Marie Clarke, UCD School of Education.
- Funded: World Universities Network (WUN).
PINNAcle - Access to Higher Education for Women in India and Pakistan.
- Principal Investigators: Deirdre Raftery, Marie Clarke, Seaneen Sloane, UCD School of Education.
- Funded: UCD Foundation Ltd.
Exploring Trends in Gender Parity in Higher Education Enrolments 1970-2015.
- Principal Investigators: Sara O Sullivan, UCD School of Sociology and Patrick Clancy, UCD School of Sociology.
- Funded: University College Dublin.
Students as Co-Researchers in Social Sciences
- Principal Investigators: Niamh Moore Cherry, UCD School of Geography and Sara O Sullivan, UCD School of Sociology.
- Funded: UCD College of Social Science and Law.
2018
The Internationalisation of Irish Higher Education. (opens in a new window)http://hea.ie/assets/uploads/2018/07/report_internationalisation_of_education_2018.pdf
- Principal Investigator: Marie Clarke
- Funded; Irish Research Council and Higher Education Authority.
2017
Universal Design for Curriculum Design: Case Studies from University College Dublin.
http://www.ucd.ie/teaching/t4media/Universal%20Design%20for%20Curriculum%20Design.pdf
- Principal Investigators: Lisa Padden, John O’Connor and Terry Barrett.
- Funded: AHEAD, National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education and UCD.
2015
Mapping Existing Research Output Focused on Higher Education Teaching and Learning in Ireland 1990-2015
- Principal Investigators: Sara O Sullivan, UCD School of Sociology, Amanda Gibney, UCD School of Civil Engineering, Suzanne Guerin, UCD School of Psychology, Michael Staunton, UCD School of History and Manolis Kalaitzake.
- Funded: National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education.
Creating a Supportive Working Environment in European Higher Education
(opens in a new window)https://issuu.com/educationinternational/docs/highereducation
- Principal Investigator: Marie Clarke, UCD School of Education
- Funded: Education International Research Institute.
Creating a Supportive Working Environment for Academics in Higher Education: Country Report Ireland.
(opens in a new window)https://www.tui.ie/_fileupload/Third%20Level%20Report.pdf
- Principal Investigators: Marie Clarke, UCD School of Education, Aidan Kenny, Teachers Union of Ireland, Andrew Loxley, TCD School of Education.
- Funded: Irish Federation of University Teachers and Teachers Union of Ireland.
The Academic Profession in Ireland.
(opens in a new window)https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/handle/10197/7204
- Principal Investigators: Marie Clarke, UCD School of Education, Jonathan Drennan, UCC School of Nursing and Midwifery, Abbey Hyde, UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems.
- Funded: European Science Foundation-EUROHESC European Higher Education and Social Change.
Student Non-Completion Why do students leave higher education in Ireland?
- Principal Investigators: Niamh Moore-Cherry, UCD School of Geography and Suzanne Quinn, UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice.
- Funded: National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education.
Assessment OF, FOR and AS Learning: Enhancing Programme Approaches to Assessment and Feedback in Irish Higher Education.
- Principal Investigator: Geraldine O Neill, UCD Teaching and Learning Unit.
- Funded: National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning.
2014
Students as co-creators of course materials: A case study.
- Principal Investigators: Sara O Sullivan, UCD School of Sociology and Niamh Moore-Cherry, UCD School of Geography.
- An unfunded current project.
Scope of Practice Framework, Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics and the Review of Undergraduate Programmes.
- Principal Investigator: Gerard Fealy
- Funded: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland.
Multisite study of the impact of global service-learning in undergraduate nursing students.
- Principal Investigator: Gerard Fealy, UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems.
- Funded: National League of Nursing