Biography
Dan is currently the Course Director for the Professional Masters in Business Education (PME) in the School of Education in the University of Limerick. Dan leads the Business Studies teaching team on the PME, including pedagogies in Accounting, Economics and Entreprenuership.Research interests:
- Adult, further and community education
- Empathetic pedagogies
- Research writing groups
- Educational disadvantage
- Inital teacher education
- Positive youth development
- Educational resilience
- Educational Leadership
- Career Guidance and Counselling
- Food Loss https://www.folou.eu/
- Bio Ethanol
Dan began his career in Education in Youthreach. The Youthreach programme provides two years integrated education, training and work experience for unemployed early school leavers without any qualifications or vocational training who are between 15 and 20 years of age. Dan worked in 5 different Youthreach centres over 12 years before joining the University upon completion of his PhD entitled, 'Positive Youth Development and Resilience among Early School Leavers'. Dan teaches course on Business Education, Special Educational Needs and Inclusion and Philosophy of Education.
Professional Activities
Director on the Board of Engage in Education https://engage-edu.ie/
Co Chair of the Teaching and Learning Committe within the School of Education.
Teaching Council and the Business Studies Teachers Association of Ireland.
Member of theLearning Teaching and Assessment Committee
Senior LeadershipTeam in the School of Education
Peer Revied Publications
O'Sullivan, D. (2023) Youthreach Learners, All Grown Up'. The Adult Learner, The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, December 2023, pp 78-92 https://www.aontas.com/Adult-Learner-Journal/16035_Adult%20Learner%20Journal_2023_WEB.pdf
O'Sullivan, D., & Heneghan, C. (2023). Guidance provision in Youthreach centres. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 50, 1, 75-84. https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.5008
O'Sullivan, D. (2018) Positive Youth Development and Resilience among Early School Leavers'. The Adult Learner, The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, December 2018, pp 83-94 https://www.aontas.com/assets/resources/Adult-Learner-Journal/14668_Aontas_Adult_Learner_2018_WEB%20new%2023-11-2018.pdf
Conference Contributions
O'Sullivan, D. (2023) Promoting Equal Access for Adult Learners', presented at The Adult Learner Journal, December.
O'Sullivan, D. (2019) 'Accessing Public Funding', invited speaker, breakout discussion, presented at The Irish Adventure Tourism Association, November.
O'Sullivan, D. (2018) Marginalisation and Early School Leaving', presented at The Adult Learner Journal, December.
O'Sullivan, D. (2017) Challenging the Cartesian Daemon', presented at Young people's perspectives on culture, identity and cultural participation on the island of Ireland today, Cultural Policy Observatory Ireland, September. https://culturalpolicyireland.org/2017/09/26/spaces-to-belong-to-presentations/
O'Sullivan, D. (2016) Youthreach and Internalised Sterotypes, a view from the Crow's Nest', presented at Connect, April.
O'Sullivan, D. (2015) Youth Participation', presented at Connect, April.
Theses
O'Sullivan, D. (2019) Positive youth development and resilience amongst early school leavers, thesis (Ph.D.) Mary Immaculate College, available: https://dspace.mic.ul.ie/handle/10395/2900
O'Sullivan, D. (2011) Can Synchronous Co-located Online Integrated Learning help build Ireland's Knowledge Economy?, thesis (Masters) Mary Immaculate College.
Education
- PhD in Education 2019 Mary Immaculate College
- Master's Degree Education 2011Mary Immaculate College
- Graduate Diploma Adult and Community Education 2010 Mary Immaculate College
- Honours Degree Bachelor of Business Studies 2007Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick
- Ordinary Degree Industrial and Systems Engineering 2021Griffith College
- Work Measurement & Time Study QQI Level 8 2021Carlow Institute of Technology
- Certificate Control of Infectious Diseases 2020Limerick & Clare Education & Training Board
- Certificate Web Design and Computer Networking 2010Limerick College of Further Education
- Completed Training Course for Adult Literacy Tutors Limerick City Adult Education Service 2009
- Completed course in Teaching English as a Foreign Langue PracticalCompleted course in Teaching English as a Foreign Langue Grammar Awareness Module