Researcher Details |

Audrey Halpin

Contact Details

Lecturer/Assistant Professor
DCU St. Patrick's Campus, Office M313
Dublin City University
Drumcondra, D.9
M:0872815325

E:audrey.halpin@dcu.ie

Lecturer/Assistant Professor

Audrey Halpin is an educator who has been theorising and researching her practice as an inclusive teacher since 1986. She has worked for some time at all levels of education within schools, colleges, universities and alternative schools. She has been employed in a number of different roles in Ireland, Canada, Dubai and Kuwait with the common threads being those of enquiry-led inclusive response to diversity, high expectations for all learners and belongingness in education. Her current focus is on Teacher Education for Education/Teaching that is inclusive of all learners who arrive at school.

Conference Contribution

	Year	Publication
	2019	Audrey Halpin (2019) ATEE Annual Conference Using Problem-Based-Learning in Teacher Education for Inclusive Education that is Equitable, Diverse and Global Bath, England, 14/08/2019-16/08/2019.
	2019	Audrey Halpin (2019) Teacher Education Policy Europe 2019: QUALITY TEACHERS AND QUALITY TEACHER EDUCATION: RESEARCH, POLICY AND PRACTICE Preparing Teachers to be Teachers of All Pupils from the Start of Their Initial Teacher Education.:Paper presenting findings from Initial Teacher Education Programme Krakow, Poland, .
	2018	Audrey Halpin; Paul King (2018) BERA Conference, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2018 An Investigation into the experiences and views of Guidance Counsellors (in Post Primary Schools throughout Ireland) regarding the provision of guidance counselling that is inclusive of learners considered to have Special Educational Needs Newcastle Upon Tyne, .
	2017	Audrey Halpin, Ricky Mc Mahon, Laura Welch, Alyson Crowley (2017) ESAI Conference 2017 Inclusive Education: Using and Creating evidence while effectively working the spaces between policy and practice Cork, 20/04/2017-22/04/2017.
	2017	Audrey Halpin (2017) Teacher Education Policy in Europe Conference 2017 Preparing Teachers of All Children using Education For All and Inclusive Education Ideologies Limerick, 18/05/2017-20/05/2017.
	2015	Audrey Halpin; Kieran Houlihan (2015) ESAI Conference, 2015 Research, Policy and Practice Nexus: Policy Development in Access to Higher Education for People with Disabilities Maynooth, .
	2015	Audrey Halpin; Joanne Jackson; Rebecca Waugh; Samuel Ross; Lorraine Harbison (2015) ESAI Conference, 2015 Research as Resilience in the transition from Initial Teacher Education to Working in School Cultures: Examples from an existing programme. Church of Ireland College of Education Maynooth, 09/04/2015-11/04/2015.

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2014	Audrey Halpin (2014) 'Leading Inclusion' In: Education Matters: Readings in Pastoral Care for School Chaplains, Guidance Counsellors and Teachers. Dublin : Veritas.

Invited papers

	Year	Publication
	2016	Audrey Halpin (2016) One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: From ground-breaking legislation for inclusion to reversion from inclusivity in primary education. INVP [Link]
	2014	Audrey Halpin (2014) Key Considerations For A School Wishing To Be Genuinely Inclusive. INVP [Link]

Professional Associations

	Association	Function	From / To
	Teaching Council of Ireland	Registered Teacher	03/09/2007 -
	Irish Federation of University Teachers	Member	01/09/2012 -

Education

Start date	Institution	Qualification	Subject
01/09/1986	Department of Education, Ireland	Diploma in Education	In-Service Teaching Diploma
03/10/1983	Carysfort College of Education/NUI	B.Ed.	Gaeilge, Music and Education
04/09/1990	Ministry of Education, Ontario	Ontario Teaching Certificate	General Subjects, Inclusive Education, Special Education
01/09/1988	University of Toronto: Ontario Insitute for Studies in Education	M.Ed	Inclusive Education and Special Education
01/09/2005	Trinity College, University of Dublin	M.Sc.	Guidance Counselling

Languages

	Language	Reading	Writing	Speaking
	English	Fluent	Fluent	Fluent
	Irish	Fluent	Fluent	Fluent

Other Activities

	Description
	Audrey engages with individuals, families, teachers, principals and organisations (on request) to discuss their inclusivity successes/concerns and to advise (if requested) on inclusive responses to diversity in education/workplace.

Enterprise Engagement

	Year	Engagement Type	Client	Description
	21/2	Continuous Professional Development/Training	Various	Professional Development engagement talks/workshops with schools/organisations on inclusivity in education and/or the workplace. Consultation for schools/educators/families/individuals on inclusivity concerns in education.

Media

	Title	Year	Type	Authors
	The Annual Crisis: School Places for Children with Special Needs	2022	Other	Audrey Halpin
	Fairer Approach Needed to help Exam Students with Special Needs	2016	Newspaper article (online)	Audrey Halpin

Research Interests

Inclusivity in Education, Learner Diversity, Inclusive Education Policy, Teacher Education Policy, Policy and Policy Discourses, Education for All, Inclusive and Responsive Pedagogies, Disability Studies, Teacher Identity, Teacher Educator Identity, Diversity in Teaching and Teacher Education, Queer Experience in Teaching, Queer experience in Teacher Education, Problem Based Learning, Universal Design, Universal Design for Learning Universal Design for Assessment, Authentic Assessment, Relationships and Sexuality Education, Learner Identity, Reflexiveness for Development in Teacher Education, Leadership for Inclusivity, Inclusive Guidance Counselling, Guidance Counselling for All.

Research Projects

Title	Role	Description	Start date	End date
National Survey of Guidance Counsellors	Co-Lead	Pilot Investigation into Guidance Counsellors' perceptions of students with special educational needs and their successes/concerns regarding provision of inclusive guidance services	01/09/2015	30/09/2016
Teachers' Research Exchange Module Enhancement Framework	DCU PI		28/08/2019	24/01/2020
WTUN Exchange	DCU PI		31/05/2019	29/11/2019

Teaching Interests

Inclusive Education, Inclusive Teaching, Education for All

Inclusive Guidance Counselling, Education,

Teaching and Guidance Counselling for All learners,

Inclusivity as respectful response to diversity in context

Strengths Based Approaches, Person/Learner Centredness, Student Voice,

Education Policy: history, analysis and implications,

Universal Design: UD for Learning and UD for Assessment, Authentic Assessment,

Personal and Social Development, Relationships and Sexuality Education

Collaborative partnerships

Professional Problem Based Learning and Project/Problem Based Learning in schools

Reflective Practice, Reflexive Professional Growth, Reflection in Context,

Modules Coordinated

Term	Title	Subject
2021-22	Identities, Holistic Profiling, Responses	SI721
2021-22	Inclusive Education	SI208
2021-22	Human Diversity: Being a Teacher of All Students	HD594
2021-22	Inclusive Education: Education that is inclusive	SI714
2023		SI208
2023		HD594
2023		SI728
2023		HD530
2021		SI704
2021		SI706
2020-2021	Learner Identity: Educational Implications	SI704
2022		SI714
2022-23	SPHE/RSE Teacher Identity	HD530
2023		SI701
2022		SI721
2021		SI715
2023		SI717
2023		SI716
2021		SI705
2020-21	Holistic Profiling and Assessment	SI715
2022-23	Inclusive Education: Education that is Inclusive	SI728