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Marie Conroy Johnson

Marie Conroy Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Education and former Director of School Placement for the Bachelor of Religious Education and English / History / Music programme at the School of Policy and Practice, DCU Institute of Education.

Marie is a former post-primary teacher and principal and has developed and worked on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the areas of initial teacher education, school placement, school leadership and management, education and the law, and research skills. She was a member of the Placement and Related Partnership Faculty Committee and also the Advisory Board for Placements and Related Partnerships in DCU IoE and has been instrumental in new policy developments in teacher education at the university.

Along with colleagues, Marie was a finalist for the following awards:
- DCU President's Award for Excellence in Teaching (2019) Team award with Dr Bernadette Ní Áingléis
- DCU President's Award for Engagement (2020) Team award with Dr Bernadette Ní Áingléis, Dr Martin Brown

Along with collegaues Dr Audrey Doyle, Dr Enda Donlon, Dr Elaine McDonald and Dr PJ Sexton, Marie was the recipient of the DCU President's Award for Teaching (2021) Team award for innovative work in online professional placement and assessment.

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2022	Donlon, Enda; Conroy Johnson, Marie; Doyle, Audrey; McDonald, Elaine; Sexton, P. J. (2022) 'Presence accounted for? student-teachers establishing and experiencing presence in synchronous online teaching environments'. Irish Educational Studies, 41 (1). [DOI]
	2021	Doyle, Audrey; Johnson, Marie Conroy; Donlon, Enda; McDonald, Elaine; Sexton, P. J. (2021) 'The Role of the Teacher as Assessor: Developing Student Teachers' Assessment Identity'. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 46 (12). [DOI]

Conference Contribution

	Year	Publication
	2023	Doyle, A.; O'Grady, S.; Conroy Johnson, M. (2023) The Value of Diversity in Education and Educational Research The Pico Site of Curriculum Making: Building student agency in Initial Teacher Education Glasgow, Scotland, 22/08/2023-25/08/2023.
	2023	Conroy Johnson, M. (2023) Fluidly Faithful? Catholic Education and the Institutional Church A Catholic Vision for Education: Examining relationships in textual sources Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland, 19/10/2023-20/08/2023.
	2021	Donlon,E., Doyle, A.,McDonald, E.,Conroy Johnson, M., & Sexton, P. (2021) ESAI Possibilities in education: Reimagining Connections with People, Purpose and Place Presence accounted for? Student-teachers establishing and experiencing presence in synchronous online teaching environments Online, .
	2021	Doyle, A., Conroy Johnson, M., McDonald, E., Sexton, PJ, & Donlon, E. (2021) Possibilities in education: Re-imagining connections with people, purpose and place [ESAI2021] Re-imagining new possibilities for Teacher Placement for post-primary student teachers: the role of the assessor in the Classroom Based Assessments Online, 25/03/2021-26/03/2021.
	2021	Doyle, Audrey; Donlon, Enda; McDonald, Elaine; Conroy Johnson, Marie; Sexton, PJ (2021) Education and Society: expectations, prescriptions, reconciliations All changed, changed utterly: Reimagining school placement in the 21st century during the Covid-19 pandemic Online, .
	2021	Donlon, E., Conroy Johnson, M., Doyle, A., McDonald, E., & Sexton, PJ (2021) Possibilities in education: Re-imagining connections with people, purpose and place [ESAI2021] 'Presence accounted for?' Student-teachers establishing and experiencing 'presence' in online teaching environments Online, 25/03/2021-26/03/2021.
	2021	Doyle, A., Donlon,E., McDonald, E., Conroy Johnson, M., & Sexton, P. (2021) ECER All changed, changed utterly: Reimagining school placement in the 21st century during the Covid-19 Education and Society: expectations, prescriptions, reconciliations Online, .
	2020	Marie Conroy Johnson and Dr Bernadette Ní Áingléis (2020) ESAI 2020: Opening up education: options, obstacles and opportunities Opening up stakeholders' understanding of the challenges presenting in the interface between education and the law and opportunities within ESAI Virtual Conference 2020, 04/09/2020-04/09/2020.
	2019	Ní Áingléis, B., Donlon, E., O'Brien, S, Conroy Johnson, M and Tillmans, T. (2019) ESAI19: Education in Times of Change, Choice and Challenge The design of an online communication learning and communication platform for placement settings: An exploratory case study Sligo, Ireland, 11/04/2019-13/04/2019.

Multimedia

	Year	Publication
	2018	Ní Áingléis, B., Conroy Johnson, M. and Brown, M. (2018) Child Protection - An online course for tutors and student teachers. ONMM

Published Report

	Year	Publication
	2016	Parry, G., Toolan, E. and Conroy Johnson, M. (2016) Contemporary Legal Issues for Management and Staff in Educational Settings: Exploring Legislation, Litigation, Approaches and Strategies and Implications for Teacher Education. Final Narrative Conference Report. SCoTENS, .

Invited papers

	Year	Publication
	2014	Conroy Johnson, M. (2014) Leading and Managing CPD in the post-primary school. INVP

Professional Associations

Association	Function	From / To
European Educational Research Association	Member	-
Educational Studies Association of Ireland	Member	-
International Professional Development Association (IPDA)	Member	-
Teaching Council of Ireland	Registered Teacher	-

Honors and Awards

Date	Title	Awarding Body
01/05/2021	DCU President's Award for Excellence in Teaching - Team (Recipient)	DCU
01/05/2020	DCU President's Award for Engagement (Finalist)	DCU
01/05/2019	DCU President's Award for Excellence in Teaching (Finalist)	DCU

Committees

	Committee	Function	From / To
	Faculty Placements and Related Partnerships Committee (FPRPC)		-
	Advisory Board (Placements and Related Partnerships)		-
	National Teacher Education and Teacher Educator Forum		-
	Teaching Council of Ireland School Placement Working Group, HEI sub-group		-

Employment

Employer	Position	From / To
St. Angela's College of Education, Sligo	Lecturer and School Placement	-
Department of Education and Skills	Post-Primary Principal	-
Department of Education and Skills	Post-Primary Teacher	-
Dublin City University	Assistant Professor and former Director of School Placement (BRelEd)	-

Education

	Start date	Institution	Qualification	Subject
		University College Wales Newport	MA in Education (Leadership and Management)
		Open University	MSc in Management and Business Research Methods

Research Interests

Initial Teacher Education, Professional Placement, Curriculum Studies, Assessment, Leadership in Education, Education and the Law, and Faith-Based Identity in Religious Schools.

Internal Collaborators

Type	Name	Company
Internal	Audrey Doyle	Dublin City University
Internal	Sabrina Fitzsimons	Dublin City University
Internal	Elaine McDonald	Dublin City University
Internal	Enda Donlon	Dublin City University
Internal	Aideen Cassidy	Dublin City University

Teaching Interests

Professional Practice
Leadership and Management in Education
Education and the Law
Research Methodologies
Pedagogy
Curriculum