Current Educational Delivery Projects
Sligo LEADER WorkAbility Programme
Careers Coaching Mentoring
Digital Marketing Mentoring
ConfidenceWellbeing & Employability Workshops
Cranmore Co-op, Sligo
QQI Level 4 Developing Entrepreneurial Skills
The Avalon Centre, Sligo
Scenario-based Practice & Professional Communication Training
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace Training
Digital Skills for Community Centre Staff and CE Scheme Participants
Abbeyquarter Community Centre, Sligo
Academic mentoring of CE Scheme Participants and Community Centre staff pursuing QQI awards as part of their Continuous Professional Development in line with their Individual Learning Plan
Tubbercurry Library
Digital Skills in the Community Classes
2025
Master of Education in Adult and Community Education (Maynooth University)
Recipient of the Adult Education, Inclusion and Social Change Scholarship, 2025
Thesis title: “It Opened the World and Created the World”: Experiences of Digital Transformation for Adults Over 60 in Community Education (22,000 words)
Presented research at the Literacy Association of Ireland’s Annual Conference, 2025
Published in the Literacy Association of Ireland’s Conference Proceedings, 2025
Published in the Journal of Research in Higher Education and Learning, 2026
Education
2021
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Humanities: Joint Major English & Psychology (Atlantic Technological University, Sligo)
• Thesis Title: The ‘Figure’ of Woman: Victorian Paradigms, Contemporary Comparisons (13,000 words) produced to a first class standard
• Presented research at Atlantic Technological University, Sligo Literature and Drama Symposium, 2021
• Submitted approved work to the Global Undergraduate Awards, 2021
• Produced research proposals in disciplines of Psychology and English Literature to a first class standard
• Produced qualitative and quantitative psychological research reports to a first class standard
• Proficient in quantitative data analysis using SPSS and qualitative data analysis using NVivo
• Proficient in MLA 8th Edition and Harvard referencing styles
• Certification in Academic Peer Mentoring
Continuous Professional Development Qualifications
QQI Level 6 Special Purpose Award in Training and Development
QQI Level 6 Supervisory Management
QQI Level 6 Coaching Models of Practice
QQI Level 5 Manual & Computerised Payroll
QQI Level 5 First Aid & Defibrillation
Ofqual Level 5 Specialist Certificate in Teaching Business English
QQI Level 4 Irish Sign Language
Pitman Training Bookkeeping Module 1
National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) Certificate in Integrating Literacy
National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) Certificate in Preparing Learning Materials
Global Language Training Master TEFL/TESOL Certification
HSE National Office for Suicide Prevention LivingWorks Start Certification in Suicide Awareness and Assistance
Tralee Education Support Centre Formative Assessment Masterclass
Tralee Education Support Centre Certificate in How To Use Chat GPT To Revolutionise Your Approach To Assessment and
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