What do vice principals for teaching and learning do?
Vice-principals for teaching & learning play a high-level role in:
- Enhancing university education quality and supporting student learning
- Guiding college and school based teaching & learning initiatives
- Chairing Teaching and Learning Committees in their respective colleges
- Reviewing new and ongoing educational trends and developments
- Highlighting teaching excellence and promoting innovation with a range of awards and grants
- Linking all aspects of student education by focusing on learning outcomes and developing transferable skills in line with best practice
- Shaping university policy & strategy – by collaborating closely with each other and at
- University level through the University Teaching and Learning Committee, chaired by the Dean of Undergraduate Studies
- College and school level with College Principals, Deans/Programme Deans, Directors of Graduate Schools, Heads of Schools and School Heads of Teaching and Learning
- Developing & implementing the Teaching & Learning annual work programme working together with the Registrar and the Dean of Undergraduate Studies in collaboration with UCD Teaching and Learning
- Representing UCD at a range of teaching & learning fora both nationally (HEA, DRHEA, UCD-TCD alliance), and internationally (U21 and international conferences)
![Dr Siobhan Donovan](/teaching/t4media/Siobhan Donovan.jpg)
Dr Siobhan Donovan
College of Arts and Humanities
![Assoc Prof Paul Ryan](/teaching/t4media/paul_ryan.jpg)
Assoc Prof Paul Ryan
College of Business
![Dr Jennifer Keenahan](/teaching/t4media/Keenahan_Jennifer headshot.jpg)
Dr Jennifer Keenahan
College of Engineering & Architecture
![Assoc Prof Jonathan McNulty](/teaching/t4media/jonthan_mcnulty.jpg)
Assoc Prof Jonathan McNulty
College of Health and Agricultural Sciences
![Dr Gavin Stewart](/teaching/t4media/gavin_stewart.jpg)
Dr Gavin Stewart
College of Science
![Dr Sarah Morton](/teaching/t4media/sarah_morton.jpg)
Dr Sarah Morton
College of Social Sciences and Law
![Assoc Prof Henry McLoughlin](/teaching/t4media/henry.mcloughlin.jpg)
Assoc Prof Henry McLoughlin
UCD China Joint Colleges