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Dr. Claire Mcavinia

Senior Academic Developer & Strategic In (Trinity Teaching and Learning)
      
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Dr. Claire Mcavinia

Senior Academic Developer & Strategic In (Trinity Teaching and Learning)

 CLAIRE.MCAVINIA@tcd.ie

 


Claire is Senior Academic Developer & Strategic Initiatives Lead in the Centre for Academic Practice, and her role is currently focused on leading Trinity's Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) initiatives. She has more than 25 years' experience in academic development and digital education with roles at TU Dublin, Maynooth University, and University College London. Claire has taught and led accredited academic professional development programmes and supervised postgraduate research. She completed a secondment with the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in 2021 when she also received a Teaching Hero Award. Claire is a Senior Fellow of the UK's Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) and Advance HE. Together with Dr Róisín Donnelly and Dr Kevin O'Rourke, she co-edits the open access Irish Journal of Academic Practice. She holds a BA and PhD from Trinity College Dublin, an MA from the University of Kent, MA in Online and Distance Education from the UK Open University, and postgraduate certificates in learning and teaching from UCL and the UK Open University. Her research interests are in all aspects of academic professional development, open education, and post-digital learning spaces in higher education.
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Educational Developers in Ireland Network (EDIN), Committee Member
UK Staff and Educational Development Association, Senior Fellow
UK Advance HE (formerly Higher Education Academy), Fellow
McAvinia, C., From Flagship to Flotilla? Findings from a Review of Literature on Learning Spaces in Higher Education., Irish Journal of Academic Practice, 11, (2), 2024, pdoi.org/10.21427/40x2-wb98 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
McAvinia, C.; Schalk, A.; Rooney, P., Exploring the concept of the digital educator during COVID-19, Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2022, p131--143 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Donnelly, R., Kennelly, I. & McAvinia, C., A multimodal framework for supporting academic writers' perspectives, practice and performance., Teaching in Higher Education, 29, (4), 2022, p10.1080/13562517.2022.2048365 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Show me the Impact! A Practical Online Tool (EDIN Impact Analysis Tool) for Evidencing the Impact of Academic Development Work. in, editor(s)M. Keane, C. McAvinia & Í. O'Sullivan , Emerging Issues IV: Changing Times, Changing Contexts., Dublin, Educational Developers in Ireland Network (EDIN), 2021, pphttps://www.edin.ie/?page_id=5 , [Gormley, C., Keane, M., O'Sullivan, Í., McAvinia, C., Fitzpatrick, M.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
McAvinia, C., Gabaudan, O., Freeman, O., Ryan, B.J., O'Kane, C. & Tully, R., Foundations and scaffolding: exploring literature and practice to build a new curriculum framework for TU Dublin, Irish Journal of Academic Practice, 9, (2), 2021, p10.21427/569A-1Z55 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Finding Inspiration: Sharing Practice and Developing Authentic Multimedia Artifacts for Supervision of Undergraduate Research in Irish Higher Education in, editor(s)N.H. Hensel & P. Blessinger , International Perspectives on Undergraduate Research, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp147 - 175, [Donnelly, R., McAvinia, C., McDonnell, C.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
O'Riordan, F., O'Sullivan, I., Fitzpatrick, M., Keane, M., McAvinia, C. & Rísquez, A., Structured professional development for academic developers: A collaborative approach, Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2020, p1--11 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Risquez, A., McAvinia, C., Desmond, Y., Bruen, C., Ryan, D., & Coughlan, A., Towards a Devolved Model of Management of OER? The Case of the Irish Higher Education Sector, The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 21, (1), 2020, p99 - 111, Notes: [https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v20i5.4545 DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v20i5.4545], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, 3, 2, (2018), McAvinia, C. & Rísquez, A., [Special Issue Editor], Journal, PUBLISHED
McAvinia, C., Ryan, D. & Moloney, D., "I don't have the time!" Analysing talk of time in lecturers' use of the VLE., Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, 3, (2), 2018, p35 - 46, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
  

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