Melanie Ní Dhuinn
Professional Diploma in Education Programme Director
Melanie is a graduate of the University of Limerick where she qualified as a post-primary teacher of Gaeilge and Physical Education. She taught Gaeilge and Physical Education for 12 years during which time she acted as an assistant written examiner and oral examiner in Gaeilge at Junior and Leaving Certificate level. She worked as a Junior Certificate Schools Programme Co-ordinator and as a School Completion Co-ordinator before being seconded into the role of Education Co-ordinator (DES) at Wexford Area Partnership and subsequently Wexford Local Development.
She has worked at local, national and international levels co-ordinating, designing, developing and evaluating education programmes in primary, post-primary, third level and adult education and has extensive experience of working on programmes focusing on educational disadvantage. She has lectured at Wexford Campus, Carlow IT in Research Methods where she had responsibility for thesis supervision for undergraduate students.
Melanie holds a Masters in Health Education Promotion from Waterford Institute of Technology and she is currently completing her PhD in Education in Trinity College Dublin. Her doctoral research work is a sociological study focusing on the impact of family cultures on educational attainment in post-primary education.
Her research interests are in the areas of family and school cultural capital and life chances, learning styles and online educational provision. She has presented papers at national and international research conferences and has a number of publications in various education and physical activity journals.
