Programme Steering Board Team
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Trevor joined N-TUTORR in February 2023 as Institute Lead for TUS. Prior to joining N-TUTORR, he was an academic Head of Department at TUS.
His qualifications include a Doctorate of Education from Durham University in the UK, an MSc in Computer Science and a BSc in Information Technology.
Trevor’s areas of research interest include the experience of students using technology within a higher education context, particularly personal technologies such as mobile phones, tablet devices and laptops.
‘Technology can sometimes be seen as a panacea for the perceived ills of education, when in reality it is just another tool on the learning journey. If implemented in an appropriate context, the research suggests that there are benefits to be gained for both learners and educators. Viewing technology from this perspective, particularly when viewed through the prism of the transformative nature of such technology, I felt that the N-TUTORR project was an exciting and unique opportunity to work in a collaborative venture across the sector to transform teaching, learning and assessment.’
With an extensive background in the molecular and biochemical life sciences, Dr. Ronan Bree is now working in the space of Digital and Open Education, and student partnership. Awarded and MA in Learning and Teaching, as well as Senior Certified Membership of the Association for Learning Technology for his work, he is a keen advocate of educational and digital technologies to support learning, teaching, assessment and feedback, serving on both local and national committees and advisory groups on digital education. In recent years, he has been a project co-ordinator, digital champion and academic lead on multi-institutional projects in this area.
While seconded to the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, and along with members of the team there, Ronan’s work focused on leading the design and development of the ‘National Resource Hub’ – a searchable collection of open educational resources (OER) for learning and learning from across the Irish higher education sector, and a platform recognised by UNESCO for its global impact in ensuring access to digital learning resources. Ronan has a significant publication record, and has been recognised with a DkIT President’s Award for Established Research Excellence in Learning and Teaching. On a national level, in 2020, Ronan was one of the final National Forum and Irish Research Council’s Teaching & Learning Research Fellowship Nominees, while in late 2023, he completed EDEN’s Digital Education Leadership Academy programme.
In his current role, Ronan is DkIT’s Institutional Lead for the national N-TUTORR programme, an exciting €40 million NextGenerationEU investment aiming to empower learners, develop staff capabilities, and embed digital ecosystems to transform learning, teaching and assessment across the Irish Technological Higher Education Sector.
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Dr Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin is Head of Department of the Department of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) at MTU.
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Bernadette joined N-TUTORR in May 2023 as Institute Lead for the Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT). She has worked in IADT since 2005 and her previous job title was FÍS Manager.
Her role includes managing media education projects, supporting educators & learners in formal, informal & community contexts and the management of successive local authority funding schemes for emerging filmmakers, gender parity initiatives & creative economy research.
Bernadette has an MSc in Cyberpsychology and a BA (Hons) Public Management.
‘With almost 20 years in the higher education sector, I am very interested in the overarching N-TUTORR objective of transforming learning. Keen to see how the 6 thematic areas underpinning the proposed transformation would combine into a cohesive holistic approach to the HE experience for students and staff. Having worked for more than 15 years managing initiatives addressing educational disadvantage at local, national, and international levels (South Africa, Nepal, Ireland, India, UK), I am particularly interested in N-TUTORR themes, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Sustainability, Employability, Universal Design for Learning, Digital Transformation, and more recently due to emerging GenAI technologies, Academic Integrity re. GenAI ethical use.’