Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer, Maynooth University. PhD (Institute of Education, University College London). Programme Leader for both the Future Leaders programme (Year 2 – M.Ed. ELM) and the TL21/M.Ed. (IL) programme. Held various roles (PI, Co-investigator) on a number of funded international research projects such EDURAD: Educational Responses to Extremism (ISF-P Funded - http://edurad.eu/); Learning to Disagree (EU funded - https://www.euroclio.eu/); Salam (Ireland) Research project (Qatar Foundation International funded - https://cmhcr.eu/salam/).