Geraldine Grimes

Dr Geraldine Grimes is a Senior Educational Developer at the Centre for Transformative Learning, where she is a Curriculum Development Support Lead. Geraldine joined CTL in December 2023, becoming part of the team tasked with assisting all those who teach in UL in the design, redesign, and development of curriculum. Geraldine brings a wealth of experience from right across the educational spectrum, where her major focus has always been on the simplification of complex messages. Geraldine enjoys the highly collegiate nature of the role, as she meets people from many different parts of the university, and spreads her enthusiasm about good educational practice. 
 

Geraldine has a BA from Monash University, Australia, in English and Politics, along with a Diploma of Education (Secondary) in which she qualified as an English and English as a Second Language teacher. She has a Masters in Linguistics from VUB in Brussels, and she branched into software development in 2013, completing a Higher Diploma, before applying all of these to her PhD examining gamification as a motivational factor for teaching languages online. With such a varied range of experiences she is well placed to work with colleagues from many different disciplines, and applies this perspective in her consultation and teaching work.