History

Contact Details

Title	Programme Co-Ordinator
Address	Centre For Adult Continuing Education Centre For Adult Continuing Education Western Road Cork
Telephone:	00353-21-4904702
Email:	ei.ccu@ninorc.j

Biography:

James Gerard Raphael Cronin is part-time Learning Resources Officer for the School of History. Here, his role involves: maintaining a web presence for the School; contributing to the development of the School's graduate tutor training programme; contributing to the work of the School's Learning and Teaching Committee; contributing to the development of Digital History and Digital Humanities. 

James is part-time Programme Co-ordinator for the European Art History Certificate and Diploma programmes, Centre for Adult and Continuing Education (CACE), University College Cork. The European Art History programme, Centre for Adult and Continuing Education, received a President's Award for Research on Innovative Forms of Teaching and Learning (2003/04). Currently, he is actively involved in the facilitation of outreach cultural history programmes in partnership with Cork City Library. He contributes to European learning partnerships.

Before joining the School of History, in March 2011, James was inaugural Visual Resources Officer in History of Art, University College Cork (2001-11). James received a Quality Improvement Fund Award in 2004 for his work with History of Art. As Visual Resources Officer, James co-ordinated the audio-visual support and recorded four international conferences for History of Art: Visual Literacy; W.G. Sebald; the Representation of Pain and Theories of Modernism & Post Modernism in the Visual Arts and the round-table discussions for the seven-volume Art Seminar series edited by James Elkins (co-published by Routledge & Cork University Press, 2006/08).

James is a graduate of University College Cork, where he read History and English and where he pursued postgraduate studies initially in History and later in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in higher education. He trained as an NUJ accredited broadcast journalist in the award-winning School of Journalism and Communications, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), Preston. He served internships with BBC Radio Cumbria in Carlisle and RS (formerly Rough Shore) Productions, an independent documentary maker, in Tyneside. He has taught with the International School of Choueifat in Wiltshire and with the Vocational Education Committee in Cork.