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School of Inclusive & Special Education

Dr
Orla
Dunne

Primary Department
School of Inclusive & Special Education
Role
Academic Staff
Phone number:
01 700
TBC
Campus
St Patrick's Campus
Room Number
TBC

Academic biography

Dr. Orla Dunne has worked with the Centre for Talented Youth, Ireland at DCU for almost ten years. Her research interests include LGBTQ inclusion in schools, giftedness and adolescent social and emotional development. Her Ed.D. thesis, supervised by Prof. Joe O'Hara and Dr. Colm O'Reilly focused on the experiences of gifted LGBTQ young people in Ireland. To date, she has written book chapters for major gifted education textbooks, presented at conferences internationally and given seminars to many education organisations, pre service teachers and on inclusion in the workplace in corporate settings.

Orla currently sits on the board of directors for ShoutOut, an organisation in Ireland that promotes inclusion through LGBTQ educational programmes.

Research interests

Gifted and talented, LGBTQ, gender, social and emotional wellbeing, leadership for inclusion, collaboration, educational policy.