Prof Bernie Grummell

Adult and Community Education, Education, ALL Institute

Professor

Maynooth University School of Education
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Biography

Biography

Bernie Grummell is Associate Professor in the Departments of Education and Adult & Community Education, Maynooth University. With Fergal Finnegan, she is currently the co-director of the Doctorate in Higher and Adult Education Programme and the Structured PhD in Adult & Community Education, as well as co-director of the Centre for Research in Adult Learning and Education in the Department of Adult and Community Education. She is a member of the social science research subcommittee and the Athena Swan Committee in Maynooth University, as well as actively engaging with policy, community and civil society groups.  

Her research explores the landscape, processes and experiences of social justice, inclusion and transformation across different sectors of education and society. She is currently engaged in research on inclusive education as part of the TUTOR teachers academies Erasmus + project, Youthreach staff wellbeing and transformative community education in Malawi and Zambia. She has completed research on adult literacy for the Adult Literacy Organisers Association (ALOA), and developed a series of policy briefing papers on inclusion in the adult literacy services for SOLAS, ETBI, NALA (2020-2021).

With Morag Munro and Margaret Keane in Maynooth University, and partners in UCC and DCU, she was a partner in the Disciplines Inquiring into Societal Challenges (DISCs) project. The project was led by UCC and funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning. She has been the Irish partner on the Erasmus+ projects SMILE - Social Meaning Impact through LLL universities in Europe (2021-2022), He4U2 – Cultural Inclusion in Higher Education (2016-2018), Unlocking Freedom through adult and community education (2015-2018).

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