I am a University Lecturer at UCD Dublin, where I work on various education, ICT, public policy and research methods programmes. I also direct two doctoral programmes at our School of Education. Between 2013 and 2015, I was Director of Graduate Studies at the then College of Human Sciences. But I'm OK now.

My interests are wide. They include environmental sustainability, professional knowledge, development policy in the global south, innovation transfer, education media, and the impact of new & emergent technology on learning and society. I have led evaluations locally, nationally and on EU funded projects. I have also been an Assessor on a number of EU actions on the Information Society, led an EU technical assistance mission to Cyprus, and I have been National Delegate (Ireland) to two OECD summits on the Information Society & Education.

Additionally, I teach into many of these areas. Between 2009 and 2017, I was Coordinator for the Global Classroom strands of the UCD /TCD Masters in Development Practice programme – a unique, co-awarded programme with Trinity College Dublin. This programme was developed in conjunction with the MacArthur Foundation and Columbia University, New York. I have also contributed to peace support education programmes at the UN School Ireland (UNTSI) where I directed field exercises for both humanitarian and military personnel preparing for PSO deployment. Between 2008 and 2011 I was on the Steering Committee of the Centre for Global Development through Education, a Government of Ireland / Irish Aid funded initiative. Additionally, I guest lecture on the MScIT programme at Trinity College Dublin, on the BA(Ed) at National College of Art and Design, Dublin and on the MSc Learning Technology course at NCI.

I hold The President’s Award for Teaching at UCD and the National Forum on Higher Education (Ireland) Award for Excellence &Innovation in University Teaching.

More recently, I have been invited to convene and coordinate the work of the European Commission Working Group on Education for Environmental Sustainability (WG EES). I have also been involved in supporting the introduction of the new ERASMUS + Jean Monnet Action lines on Teachers and Teaching.

Cambridge PhD under the supervision of Profs John Furlong and Terry McLaughlin.

Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, Michaelmas Term, 2000.

Hopelessly infrequent blogger.