Dr
Niamh
Watkins
Primary Department
School of Language, Literacy & Early Childhood Education
Role
Academic Staff
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Niamh has more than ten years experience teaching at primary school level in DEIS schools.
Niamh's interests include the reading-writing connection; writing genres; literacy in the context of educational disadvantage; dialogic approaches to literacy;, project-based learning, literacy across the curriculum; critical literacy pedagogy; literacy assessment in higher education.
She is currently completing doctoral studies in the University of Sheffield.
01 700
9050
Email Address
niamh.watkins@dcu.ie
Campus
St Patrick's Campus
Room Number
F210
Academic biography
Niamh is an assistant professor in the school of Language, Literacy and Early Childhood Education (LLECE) where she lectures in the area of Literacy to undergraduate and postgraduate students .Niamh has more than ten years experience teaching at primary school level in DEIS schools.
Research interests
Niamh's interests include the reading-writing connection; writing genres; literacy in the context of educational disadvantage; dialogic approaches to literacy;, project-based learning, literacy across the curriculum; critical literacy pedagogy; literacy assessment in higher education.
She is currently completing doctoral studies in the University of Sheffield.