DARIAH Ireland Postdoctoral Researcher, University College Cork
I recently began a new position as the DARIAH Ireland Postdoctoral Researcher. I am based in the discipline of digital arts and humanities in University College Cork. The project, Embedding Digital Literacies in HEIs, is headed by Dr Orla Murphy, director of the digital arts and humanities programmes in UCC. DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for … Read more
A few months ago I was invited to speak to the #PhDchatUCC group in University College Cork about my experience of finishing a PhD and what comes next. I focused mainly on time management and self-care because I really believe that these issues need to be brought into sharper focus. Having heard many junior and … Read more
In the past academic year alone students have come to me about a range of issues that have effected their performance and attendance in my modules: bereavement, physical illness, mental illness, coming out to their families and friends, pregnancy, financial struggle, work commitments due to financial struggles, sexual assault, homesickness, relationship break-ups. None of my … Read more
DigComp 2.1 was published this month by the JRC of the European Commission, an update to 2016’s DigComp 2.0. The latest version of this framework develops the proficiency levels in more detail. DigComp 2.0 and 2.1 layout some very useful paths to help us move beyond the “skills” silo that the digital has become in … Read more
*As part of my studies in the Certificate for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education I was asked to write a Teaching Portfolio section on entry points to learning. We were asked to connect this entry point with Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligences. In this abridged version I introduce the difference between MI and entry … Read more
I attended Jim Groom’s talk in Cork (31st march 2017) and want to say a few words while it’s fresh in my mind. For those of you unfamiliar with Groom’s work, he is a co-founder of Reclaim Hosting, a company that provides domains and web hosting to students and educators. Groom was here to talk … Read more
The second annual #EditWikiLit took place on the 8th of February 2017. This year students from the MA in English programmes and the MA in Irish Studies edited a range of literary, biographical and historical pages over the course of a two-hour editathon in University College Cork. The format was more or less the same … Read more
I am delighted to have published “Twessays and Composition in the Digital Age” with Hybrid Pedagogy on the 8th of February 2017. The article was collaboratively peer reviewed by Rebecca Halpern and Elizabeth Lenaghan. It is, in some ways, a response to Jesse Stommel’s “The Twitter Essay,” also published in Hybrid Pedagogy. My article considers … Read more
I teach a final year seminar called America With[out] Borders, and among the required readings are long poems by Lorna Dee Cervantes and Claudia Rankine. I have taught Cervantes’s “Bananas” and “Coffee” in other modules previously, but have rarely been satisfied with the lectures. These are challenging poems that require deep, well-researched readings. Students rarely enter … Read more
*I decided that posting my Teaching Philosophy here is long overdue, so below is the most up-to-date version as of 15th December 2016* From day one my students are asked to define themselves as public scholars whose contributions are not just part of “making the grade,” but also a means of breaking down the fourth … Read more