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Dr. John Walsh

Ussher Asst. Prof. in Higher Education (Education)
ARTS BUILDING

 walshj8@tcd.ie

 3531896 1221


Biography

Dr. John Walsh is a lecturer with the School of Education, specialising in higher education studies. He is co-ordinator of the Diploma/M.Ed strand in Teaching and Learning (Higher Education), which offers a third-level teaching qualification. Dr. Walsh is a member of the Cultures, Academic Values and Education research group. He was previously employed as a contract researcher with the Centre for Contemporary Irish History. John Walsh has lectured with the School of Education, the Department of History (TCD), Marino Institute of Education and CICE Rathmines. John Walsh was awarded a Ph.D in history of education in 2006. He also holds an M. Litt in the history of the Catholic Church.

Research Tags

  2q32   EDUCATION   Educational Administration and Policy   Educational Planning/Policy   Higher Education   Irish History   Modern Irish history

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Fluent Medium Basic
Irish Fluent Medium Medium

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Member, Executive Committee, Educational Studies Association of Ireland, 2016 to 2020. 2016 2020
Member, Executive Committee, TCD Association and Trust, 2006 to date. 2006 to date
Member of Educational Studies Association of Ireland, 2013 to date. 2013 2022
Member, Irish Historical Studies, 2016 to date. 2016 2022
Universities and Colleges': Higher Education and the Independent Irish State, 1922-1945 in, editor(s)Prof Brendan Walsh , Education Policy in Ireland 1922 to the Present, London, Springer online, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp473 - 522, [John Walsh], Notes: [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-91775-3#toc ], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
Women's educational activism and higher education in Ireland, 1850-1912 in, editor(s)Jyoti Atwal, Ciara Breathnach and Sarah-Anne Buckley , Gender and History, Ireland 1852-1922, Routledge, Routledge, 2022, pp193 - 206, [John Walsh], Notes: [https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003164944], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
John Walsh, 'Nobody's Ideal' Augustine Birrell, William Walsh and the evolution of the Irish Universities Act 1908, History of Education: Journal of the History of Education Society, (7 January 2022), 2022, Notes: [DOI included], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
John Walsh, Higher Education in Ireland, 1922-2016 Politics, Policy and Power - a history of higher education in the Irish state., 1st, E book and hard cover in England, Ireland, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2019, 1-513pp, Notes: [10.1057/978-1-137-44673-2], Book, PUBLISHED  DOI
Developing Student Leadership: A case study in informal learning - the class representative system of Trinity College Dublin Students' Union in, editor(s)Maria Yarosh, Anna Serbati, Aidan Seery , Developing Generic Competences outside the University Classroom, Granada, Spain, University of Granada, 2017, pp79 - 88, [Walsh, John, Byrne, Katie, Kenny, Molly, O'Farrell, Ciara], Notes: [Published as an ebook and paperback.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Ann Nolan and John Walsh, "'In what orbit we shall find ourselves, no one could predict'": institutional reform, the university merger and ecclesiastical influence on Irish higher education in the 1960s', Irish Historical Studies, 41, (159), 2017, p77 - 96, Notes: [https://doi.org/10.1017/ihs.20], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Creating a Modern Educational System? International Influence, Domestic Elites and the transformation of the Irish Educational Sector, 1950-75 in, editor(s)Brendan Walsh , Essays in the History of Irish Education, London, Palgrave Macmillan , 2016, ppp.235 - p.266, [John Walsh], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
John Walsh, The Hunt Report and higher education policy in the Republic of Ireland: 'an international solution to an Irish problem?' , Studies in Higher Education, 40, (6), 2015, p28 - 45, Notes: [ID: 881350 DOI:10.1080/03075079.2014.881350], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Andrew Loxley, Aidan Seery and John Walsh (eds), Higher education in Ireland: practices, policies and possibilities, eds A. Loxley, A. Seery and J. Walsh, 1st, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 1 - 256pp, Book, PUBLISHED
'A Contemporary History of Irish Higher Education, 1980-2011' in, editor(s)A. Loxley, A. Seery and J. Walsh , Higher education in Ireland: practices, policies and possibilities,, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp33 - 54, [John Walsh], Notes: [Higher education policy, history of education], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
  

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Amélia Veiga, Tim Seidenschnur, European Universities in an Age of Pandemic: Ireland, Working Papers on University Reform, 37, Centre for Global Higher Education Futures (CHEF), Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, December, 2022, p195 - 226, Report, PUBLISHED
John Walsh, Schools and schooling, Review of Schools and schooling, 1650-2000: new perspectives on the history of education, the eighth Seamus Heaney lectures, by James Kelly and Susan Hegarty , History of Education, 2018, Review, PUBLISHED
John Walsh, Collen - 200 Years of Building and Civil Engineering in Ireland: A history of the Collen family business 1810-2010, 1st, Dublin, Lilliput Press, 2010, Book, PUBLISHED
John Walsh, Patrick Hillery: the official biography, 1st, Dublin, New Island Press, 2008, 1 - 608pp, Notes: [Biography and Irish history], Book, PUBLISHED
An era of expansion, 1945-75 in, editor(s)James Kelly , St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra: A History, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2006, pp158 - 183, [John Walsh], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
Award from TCD Association and Trust 2006
Postgraduate Studentship, Centre for Contemporary Irish History 2002-05

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

My research interests include higher education in Ireland; educational policy in a national and international context; the interaction between church and state in education and history of education in contemporary Ireland. My current interests include the impact of the Hunt report and the influence of international agencies on national educational policies.