NEIC - North East Inner City Fellows Advisory Group to Centre

Seána Brady is currently studying a Masters in Education, Special Option of Poverty and Social Inclusion through the DCU/NEIC fellowships programme. She obtained her Bachelor of Education degree from Dublin City University in 2017. Seána has been teaching in Central Model Senior School, a DEIS Band 1 primary school in the North East Inner City of Dublin since qualifying. She is currently teaching fourth class. Her research interests are in the areas of multidisciplinary teams and the rejuvenation of GAA in the NEIC. She is currently involved in developing a 'Creating a Fairer Ireland' Policy.

Sophia Cuddy Cullen is a mainstream class teacher from Roscommon Town and is teaching in Sheriff Street, Dublin 1 for two years. She is a recent graduate of the DCU Institute of Education’s Bachelor of Education, majoring in English Literature and Drama in the Classroom in 2019. She studied primary education at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland in 2018. Her studies have focused on creating innovative, collaborative and supportive educational environments in which children can reach their full potential, with a focus on the Arts. She is looking forward to applying her current knowledge of the Irish and the Finnish education system in tackling educational disadvantage in the NEIC.

Rose Duffy is from Marino in Dublin. She graduated from St. Patrick’s College in 2014 and has been teaching in Rutland National School ever since. She is currently teaching Senior Infants but has taught a range of classes and has also spent time in Learning Support/Resource roles. She loves working in the North East Inner City and has a keen interest in social inclusion.

Ciara Naughton is originally from a small village called Portnoo, in Co. Donegal.  She began working in O'Connell’s School in 2002 having completed her degree in Marino Institute of Education. Her passions are special education, cultural inclusion and the arts and she is currently working as Home School Liaison Officer in O'Connell’s School and St. Vincent's Infant Boys’ School.

Alison Rafferty began her studies in the National University of Ireland, Galway where she obtained a degree in English and Classics before going on to complete a Postgraduate degree in Primary Teaching with Hibernia College in 2012. She moved to Dublin from her native Galway shortly afterwards and has worked in a variety of DEIS and SEN school settings since then. She is now in her eight year teaching at the Central Model Infants’ School on Marlborough Street. Alison has held the position of Assistant Principal in her school since 2018 and leads her school in the areas of Digital Technologies and School Self Evaluation. She also has an interest in school governance and has completed an Advanced Diploma in Law & Education in Kings Inns in recent years. Alison also serves as the representative for the nine Model Schools in the country to the NCCA’s Primary School Curriculum Redevelopment Forum; the forum meets regularly to guide and help shape the ongoing primary curriculum review and redevelopment which is an area that she is passionate about.  Alison is truly delighted to be given the opportunity to participate in the NEIC/DCU Fellowship Masters of Education Programme and is committed to tackling educational disadvantage in the North East Inner City.

Megan Wynne, originally from Co. Leitrim, graduated from Dublin City University with a Bachelor  of Education degree in 2019. This is her second year teaching in Rutland National School and she is currently teaching 4th class. She has a keen interest in the area of poverty and social inclusion having selected it as her minor specialism as part of her degree and completed her final year action research project on the use of multidisciplinary teams for children who are suffering from chronic anxiety.