Dr Nuala Whelan

Adult and Community Education

Lecturer
Deputy Head of Department

Maynooth University School of Education
1st Floor
122
(01) 474 7205
Biography

Biography

Nuala Whelan is a Lecturer in Adult Guidance Counselling and Reflective Practice in the Department of Adult and Community Education. Nuala lectures in Career Development Theory and Behaviour, Careers and Well-being, the Psychology of Unemployment and Re-employment, Psychometric Testing, and provides employment and career related inputs on selected modules.

She is a Chartered Work and Organisational Psychologist who has worked for 20+ years as a practitioner in community based employment services with clients disadvantaged in the labour market.

Her main research interests centre on employability, employment service effectiveness, career guidance models and practice, capability informed practice, collaborative working, policy implementation, and the potential value of enhancing human capacity for personal, organisational and societal impact. 

Her current research involves further development of the MEEG (Model of Enabling Employment Guidance) employment guidance tool-kit and metric for practitioners working with those most distant from the labour market.

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