Anne is Senior Lecturer at the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, SETU, Waterford, Ireland.  Anne’s 30+ years’ experience of national and international management and programme development is combined with her experience in cross-disciplinary teaching, research, and collaborations in Higher Education. She also has substantial experience and knowledge of national and international student supervision to Masters and PhD level.

Her teaching and qualitative research interests lie in professional role identity, professional learning and development, multi-disciplinary scholarly partnerships and research collaborations (SPaRC). Anne was an invited member of the Expert Working Group on Education & Social Rights, for the Government of Ireland National Campaign ‘Creating Our Future: A National Conversation on Research in Ireland’. Her research has been funded by national and international bodies, and she has substantial publications in edited volumes and peer reviewed journals. She was the recipient of the 2013-2014 Fulbright Scholar Award in Social Sciences and travelled to the US to conduct research on Enhancing Teaching-Learning Environments (TLEs) in Professional Development Programs in Education’. While in the US, Anne was the recipient of the 2014 Fulbright Scholar Social Entrepreneurship: Innovating Non-profits and Developing Communities International Award.

 Anne has held management and executive education positions including visiting research Fellowships and international appointments in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; Henley Management College, and the University of Reading, United Kingdom; University of Georgia and DUKE, USA; and the Open University in the UK and Europe. She is a Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Fellow, CIPD Fellow, Researcher in Residence with the Teaching Council, and President Emerita, Irish Fulbright Alumni Association. Anne has 25+ years teaching and training experience, and extensive national and international experience in Organisation Development and Change (HR/OD) roles.

Outside her academic career, Anne has led senior teams in the public, private and NFP sector; and she has facilitated other top management teams in Ireland, the UK, Europe and North America in achieving significant organisation change and development.

Specific areas of expertise: Transformative Learning, Identity Self-States and Professional Role Engagement; Qualitative Research Methodologies.