Dr Clare O'Donoghue

Biography

I am a  Senior Lecturer in the Education Department at Middlesex University where I teach on the BA Education Studies programme and have also previously taught on  the BA Early Childhood Programme. I was programme leader for 14 years on the now  closed Middlesex MA TESOL and BA TEFL / BA TEFL and Modern Languages programmes.

Throughout  my time at Middlesex, I have held various learning and teaching committee and  leadership roles within Middlesex University, as well as contributing to validation  quality assurance panels.  I am currently a member of the University Assurance Committee and the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education’s working group on Gen AI.

I gained  my PhD in teacher identity formation at Middlesex University. I have an MSc   in Teaching English (Applied Linguistics and ELT) from Aston University and a BA in Psychology from Manchester University. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher  Education Authority (SFHEA) and have the Royal Society of Arts Diploma and  Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults (RSA DTEFLA, RSA CTEFLA).

Before joining  Middlesex University, I worked at Swansea University and on distance-learning MA  courses for Birmingham University.  Prior to that, I taught in Spain, and Ecuador with the British Council / Overseas  Development Agency, and trained language teachers in Ecuador, the UK, Greece and Thailand.

Teaching

My academic  interests in language and literacy development, bi-/multilingualism, learning  and teaching policy and pedagogy, social justice in education, The United Nations EFA2015 and SDG2030 Development Goals, teacher preparation and educators’ professional identity  formation are reflected in the undergraduate and post-graduate modules I currently lead on:

·         EDU 1404 Literacy, Language and Learning across the Lifespan

·         EDU 2405 Education for Social Justice

·         EDU 2219 Developing Professional Practice in Educational Settings

·         EDU 3401 Comparative Education and Children’s Rights in a Global Context

·         LED 4008 Globalisation and Contemporary Issues in Higher Education (MA)

I also teach  on other modules such as, Psychological Approaches to Learning, and Historical  and Contemporary Issues in Education and am a BA Education Studies dissertation  supervisor. I previously led undergraduate modules on Children’s Literature and  Philosophy of Education for over ten years.

I am currently  supervising one doctoral student in the area of TESOL and English for Academic Purposes.