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  • Niamh Watkins

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    Niamh is an assistant professor in the school of Language, Literacy and Early Childhood Education (LLECE) where she lectures in the area of Literacy to undergraduate and postgraduate students .
    Niamh has more than ten years experience teaching at primary school level in DEIS schools.

    Research Interests 
    Niamh's  interests include literacy in the context of educational disadvantage; dialogic approaches to literacy; writing pedagogy, project-based learning, literacy across the curriculum, critical literacy pedagogy, literacy assessment in higher education.
    She is currently completing doctoral studies in the University of Sheffield.
    Certain data included herein are derived from the ? Web of Science (2022) of Clarivate. All rights reserved.

    Professional Associations

    Association Function From / To
    Federation of European Literacy Associations (Ireland) Member 01/02/2019 - 08/07/2022
    Literacy Association of Ireland Past President 06/11/2020 - 06/11/2021

    Research Interests

    Critical literacy pedagogy; Dialogic classrooms; Writing Pedagogy; Cross-curricular integration; 



    Teaching Interests

    Approaches to writing instruction 
    Dialogic approaches to Literacy 
    Literacy in disadvantaged contexts 
    Critical Literacy
    Children's Literature 
    Vocabulary instruction
    Cross curricular integration