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Dr. John Walsh

Ussher Asst. Prof. in Higher Education (Education)
ARTS BUILDING
      
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Dr. John Walsh

Ussher Asst. Prof. in Higher Education (Education)
ARTS BUILDING

 walshj8@tcd.ie

 3531896 1221


Dr. John Walsh is a lecturer with the School of Education, specialising in higher education studies. He is co-ordinator of the Diploma/M.Ed strand in Teaching and Learning (Higher Education), which offers a third-level teaching qualification. Dr. Walsh is a member of the Cultures, Academic Values and Education research group. He was previously employed as a contract researcher with the Centre for Contemporary Irish History. John Walsh has lectured with the School of Education, the Department of History (TCD), Marino Institute of Education and CICE Rathmines. John Walsh was awarded a Ph.D in history of education in 2006. He also holds an M. Litt in the history of the Catholic Church.
  2q32   EDUCATION   Educational Administration and Policy   Educational Planning/Policy   Higher Education   Irish History   Modern Irish history
Project Title
 Developing All Round learning
From
2015
To
2018
Summary
Developing generic skills and competencies through informal learning.
Funding Agency
European Commission
Programme
Erasmus+
Person Months
3

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Fluent Medium Basic
Irish Fluent Medium Medium
Details Date From Date To
Member, Executive Committee, Educational Studies Association of Ireland, 2016 to 2020. 2016 2020
Member, Executive Committee, TCD Association and Trust, 2006 to date. 2006 to date
Member of Educational Studies Association of Ireland, 2013 to date. 2013 2022
Member, Irish Historical Studies, 2016 to date. 2016 2022
John Walsh, Nation building, Gaelicisation and the National University of Ireland, 1908-45, Culture, Education and Future, 3, (2), 2025, p209 - 225, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Melina Aarnikoivu, Andrew G. Gibson, John Walsh, The role and power of individuals in building a caring European post-pandemic higher education, Learning and Teaching - The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 18, (3), 2025, p66 - 92, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Volmering, Nicole; Dunne, Claire M.; Walsh, John; Ó Murchadha, Noel, Irish in Outlook: A Hundred Years of Irish Education, Lausanne, Peter Lang, 2024, 334pp, Book, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
The Foundation of the Preparatory Colleges and their Ideological Mission in the Irish Free State in, editor(s)Nicole Volmering, Claire M. Dunne, John Walsh and Noel Ó Murchadha , Irish in Outlook, Peter Lang, Peter Lang, 2024, pp133 - 156, [John Walsh], Notes: [DOI 10.3726/b20746], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
John Walsh, 'Bar the Gates' - The Phone Calls to Aras an Uachtaráin, January 1982, Tales from the Great Scaldwood, journal of the Blanchardstown Castleknock History Society, 4, (4), 2023, p1 - 10, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Universities and Colleges': Higher Education and the Independent Irish State, 1922-1945 in, editor(s)Prof Brendan Walsh , Education Policy in Ireland 1922 to the Present, London, Springer online, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp473 - 522, [John Walsh], Notes: [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-91775-3#toc ], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
Women's educational activism and higher education in Ireland, 1850-1912 in, editor(s)Jyoti Atwal, Ciara Breathnach and Sarah-Anne Buckley , Gender and History, Ireland 1852-1922, Routledge, Routledge, 2022, pp193 - 206, [John Walsh], Notes: [https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003164944], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
John Walsh, 'Nobody's Ideal' Augustine Birrell, William Walsh and the evolution of the Irish Universities Act 1908, History of Education: Journal of the History of Education Society, (7 January 2022), 2022, Notes: [DOI included], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
John Walsh, Higher Education in Ireland, 1922-2016 Politics, Policy and Power - a history of higher education in the Irish state., 1st, E book and hard cover in England, Ireland, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2019, 1-513pp, Notes: [10.1057/978-1-137-44673-2], Book, PUBLISHED  DOI
Developing Student Leadership: A case study in informal learning - the class representative system of Trinity College Dublin Students' Union in, editor(s)Maria Yarosh, Anna Serbati, Aidan Seery , Developing Generic Competences outside the University Classroom, Granada, Spain, University of Granada, 2017, pp79 - 88, [Walsh, John, Byrne, Katie, Kenny, Molly, O'Farrell, Ciara], Notes: [Published as an ebook and paperback.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
  

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Andrew Gibson, Nina Singh, John Walsh & Angeliki Lima, Measuring Attitudes Towards Academic Integrity in Irish Higher Education, 14/11/24, November, 2024, Report, PUBLISHED
Gibson, Hazelkorn and Walsh, European Universities in an Age of Pandemic: Ireland (editors Amélia Veiga, Tim Seidenschnur), Working Papers on University Reform, 37, Centre for Global Higher Education Futures (CHEF), Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, December, 2022, p195 - 226, Report, PUBLISHED
John Walsh, Schools and schooling, Review of Schools and schooling, 1650-2000: new perspectives on the history of education, the eighth Seamus Heaney lectures, by James Kelly and Susan Hegarty , History of Education, 2018, Review, PUBLISHED
John Walsh, Collen - 200 Years of Building and Civil Engineering in Ireland: A history of the Collen family business 1810-2010, 1st, Dublin, Lilliput Press, 2010, Book, PUBLISHED
John Walsh, Patrick Hillery: the official biography, 1st, Dublin, New Island Press, 2008, 1 - 608pp, Notes: [Biography and Irish history], Book, PUBLISHED
An era of expansion, 1945-75 in, editor(s)James Kelly , St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra: A History, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2006, pp158 - 183, [John Walsh], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
Award from TCD Association and Trust 2006
Postgraduate Studentship, Centre for Contemporary Irish History 2002-05
My research interests include higher education in Ireland; educational policy in a national and international context; the interaction between church and state in education and history of education in contemporary Ireland. My current interests include the impact of the Hunt report and the influence of international agencies on national educational policies.