Biography
Jennifer is a Lecturer in Education with the School of Education, University of Limerick. Her research interests include the impact of high-stakes assessment on teaching and learning, the role of teachers as researchers and the impact of performativity on teacher identity and agency.Her research has been published across a variety of leading ISI journals including Educational Review, Studies in Higher Education, Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, Educational Studies, Irish Educational Studies, The Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education and English Teaching Practice and Critique.
Jennifer is the Research Strand Coordinator for the Professional Master in Education programme and Course Director for the Bachelor of Education in Languages programme (LM091) at the University of Limerick.
Research Interests
Jennifer's research interests include pedagogy and performativity, curriculum and assessment, the impact of school culture on curriculum,poetry pedagogy and teachers as researchers. Her research has been published across a variety of leading ISI journals.Jennifer provides research supervision in the following areas:
- The impact of assessment and performativity on teaching and learning
- Teachers as researchers
- The teaching, learning and assessment of post-primary poetry
- The place of the arts in education
- School culture and curriculum change
- Teacher agency and identity
Professional Activities
Association
- 2010 Promotion of best practice in the teaching of English, Irish National Organisation of Teachers of English (INOTE)
Award
- 2007 - Advanced Scholar Award
- 2006 - J.N. Oliver Perpetual Trophy