Economics

Contact Details

Title	Lecturer
Address	Economics University College Cork Cork Ireland
Telephone:	+353-21-490-3000
Fax:	+353 21 490 3000
Email:	ei.ccu@sdleihskcalb.d
Homepage:	Web Page
Address	Economics Ec1.07, Aras Na Laoi Dept of Economics Ucc
Telephone:	+353 21 490 3515
Email:	ei.ccu@sdleihskcalb.d

Biography:

I have been a lecturer at the Department of Economics in University College, Cork since 1999. In 2009 I received an MA in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education for my thesis on the use of the Teaching for Understanding Framework and Sherlock Holmes narratives as a teaching tool for developing problem-solving and metacognitive skills for Economics students. I have presented nationally and internationally on teaching for understanding, integrative learning and creativity. I was nominated by the Vice-President for Teaching and Learning for a NAIRTL National Excellence in Teaching Award in 2009. I am a member of the NAIRTL funded Irish integrative Learning Project. This project has been nominated for a a NAIRTL National Excellence in Teaching Award in 2010.  I am currently interested in pedagogies that enable the development of self-authorship by learners in line with UCC's strategic objective to 'equip our students with the attitudes, attributes, knowledge, skills and value that they need to take advantage of the opportunities and challenges they will encounter throughout their lives.' I am currently in the prelimianry stages of developing a research project on transformational learning entitled: Promoting Transformational Teaching And Learning: Documenting And Enhancing: The Teaching For Understanding Framework For Student Self-Authorship. In September 2007 I presented research Dr. John Considine and myself have been developing on Arthur O’Connor at the History of Economic Thought Conference in Queens University, Belfast. On the basis of my presentation and our research to date we were asked to contribute a chapter to a major new book on Irish Economic Thought entitled: Ireland and Political Economy: Towards a History of Irish Economic Thought. This book has been developed as part of the Routledge Series on National Traditions in the History of Political Economy. Its editors are Professor T.A. Boylan, NUI Galway, Dr Renee Prendergast and Professor John Turner, Queens University. Dr Considine and I are developing this research portfolio on Arthur O’Connor and we have engaged in preliminary work on the links between Arthur O’Connor and James Barry and Arthur O’Connor’s thought on monopoly.