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Dr Trudy Corrigan

Dr Trudy Corrigan is the Director and founder of the DCU Intergenerational Learning Programme. She is a researcher and lecturer in the School of Educational Studies. Her research interests are in adult education and lifelong learning and in particular in researching intergenerational learning across generations, to explore the reciprocal benefits of teaching, learning and research between generations in higher education and the benefits of intergenerational learning as a community of learning  in the context  of experiential learning, transformational learning and social learning.

Dr Cathy Fowley

Dr Cathy Fowley has been part of the ILP team from its inception. As coordinator of the technology modules, she mentors students who run individual sessions and modules for older learners. Cathy has created and runs lifewriting modules.  She is the editor of Stories of There and Then (I and II), books of life stories written by the participants in the lifewriting modules. Her current research projects for the ILP include HomePlaces (funded by PhotoWings) and  EHLSSA (Erasmus+).  Dr Cathy Fowley holds a PhD on Internet research, her main research interests are in the fields of digital literacies, technologies for learning, and lifewriting. 

Carmel Conroy

Carmel Conroy is the Coordinator of the Intergenerational Learning Programme. Carmel holds a BSc in Education and Training, and has been involved in the ILP since its inception. She currently oversees the Benefit4 programme (funded by the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources) and provides support to ILP students and participants. She is involved in the EHLSSA project as a Research Assistant.

Associate ILP Members

Dr Emma Murphy

Emma is a tutor for the Music module as part of the Intergenerational Learning Programme at DCU. She is also a postdoctoral researcher at the Higher Education Research Centre (HERC) and the School of Computing in DCU. In 2014 she was awarded an Irish Research Council postdoctoral research fellowship investigating the potential of inclusive technology to support older adult learners. Emma has significant experience in the design and evaluation of user interaction techniques for older adults and people with disabilities and has published extensively in this area. Emma completed her PhD at the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen’s University Belfast and is also a graduate of Trinity College Dublin where she studied Music and Philosophy.

Grace Kenny

Grace’s involvement with the Intergenerational Learning Programme began as a Masters Student volunteer in 2012. Grace is currently completing her PhD at the Business School DCU and is funded by the Daniel O’Hare research scholarship. Her research explores how citizens’ health information privacy concerns influence their acceptance and adoption of health technologies. As part of this research, Grace is interested in older citizens’ privacy concerns regarding health technologies and in developing approaches to address these concerns. Grace has won awards for her research including DCU’s Tell it Straight Research competition in 2014, and a Best paper award at the Irish Academy of Management Conference, 2015. She has presented her research at a number of National and International conferences. Grace currently lectures on our new Understanding Life Online module.

Conor Sullivan

Conor Sullivan is a science teacher who has been involved in teacher training in DCU for the past 10 years. His main teaching area is in Information and Communications Technology. He has taught ICT classes for the Intergenerational Learning Programme and has played a major role in the creation of the Everyday Science module. Conor is the technical office in the School of Education Studies and provides technical support for the ILP. This includes maintaining the ILP website, technical support for ICT classes and event support.

Dr Ronnie Saunders

Dr Ronnie Saunders retired as Head of DCU’s Distance Learning Division Oscail in September 2008 after 23 years in DCU. Ronnie, a scientist by profession, set up Ireland’s first IT degree by distance learning. Since retirement he has devoted his time, amongst other pursuits, to researching his family tree, with branches in the UK, US and Australia. In 2012, despite being on the wrong side of the inter-generational fence, he got involved in the ILP project and since then has presented a course on Genealogy to older people in each semester - a total of seven courses to date with over 90 participants. The focus of the course is using internet based resources and search techniques along with library based materials to enable participants research their own family history.

Professor Mark Morgan

Professor Mark Morgan has just finished a three year term as co-director of ‘Growing up in Ireland’ (the national Longitudinal Study of Children) at the Children’s Research Centre, Trinity College. Previously he was Cregan Professor of Education and Psychology at St. Patrick’s College and Head of the Education Department. Having qualified as a teacher in St. Patrick’s College, he was a teaching Principal following which he completed post-graduate studies in Social Psychology at the London School of Economics. He was then awarded the Gogarty International Fellowship in Health Sciences to enable him to complete a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University.

He is the author of over 80 scholarly publications among which are a number that focus on teachers’ motivation, stress and resilience. He has also evaluated several major national projects including substance use prevention programmes, the Relationship and Sexuality programme as well as a number of interventions that seek to address educational disadvantage. In 2010, he was awarded the President’s prize for research by Dublin City University.

While Head of the Education Department, he helped develop, with international input, postgraduate programmes in teacher education at Master’s and Doctoral level. He also developed a programme for Garda Educators in the Garda College, Templemore.