Dr Fergal Finnegan

    Adult and Community Education

    Senior Lecturer
    Associate Professor

    Maynooth University School of Education
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    (01) 708 6059

    Biography

    Book

    Year Publication
    2017 Fleming T.;Loxley A.;Finnegan F. (2017) Access and participation in Irish Higher Education. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI]

    Edited Book

    Year Publication
    2021 Fergal Finnegan, Peter Lavender & Alan Tuckett (Ed.). (2021) Paulo Freire centenary. Melbourne: Adult learning Australia,
    2021 McCrea, N, Finnegan, F. & Ní Chasaide, N (Ed.). (2021) Community development and financialization: making the connections. Oxford: Oxford University Press, [Link]
    2021 Marcella Milana, Martin Kopecký and Fergal Finnegan (Ed.). (2021) Capitalism(s) and the future of adult education policy. 2021 12(1): 1-122: uropean Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults,
    2020 Finnegan, Fergal & Grummell, Bernie (Ed.). (2020) Power and possibility: Adult Education in a Diverse and Complex world. Rotterdam: Sense/Brill, [Link]
    2020 Grummell, Bernie & Finnegan, Fergal (Ed.). (2020) Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education. Rotterdam: Sense/Brill,
    2019 Mc Crea, Niamh & Finnegan, F (Ed.). (2019) Funding, power and community development. Bristol: Policy Press,
    2019 Fleming, Ted, Kokkos, Alexis & Finnegan, Fergal (Ed.). (2019) European Perspectives on Transformation Theory. London: Palgrave Macmillan, [Link]
    2014 Finnegan, F, Merrill, B & Thunborg, C (Ed.). (2014) Student voices on inequalities in European higher education: Challenges for theory, policy and practice in a time of change. London: Routledge, [DOI]

    Book Chapter

    Year Publication
    2022 Finnegan, F., (2022) 'The pulse of freedom and transformative learning: Winding paths, blind alleys and new horizons' In: Palgrave Handbook on Learning for Transformation. London : Palgrave.
    2022 Finnegan, F., (2022) 'Living theory in transforming times' In: Transformation Theory and Praxis: New perspectives and possibilities. London : Routledge.
    2022 Finnegan, F., (2022) 'Migration and Transformative Adult Education: Reflections on complexity, criticality and counter-publics in the age of superdiversity' In: Adult Learning in a Migration Society. London : Routledge.
    2022 Luraschi, S. & Finnegan, F. (2022) 'A dialogue on migration, critical auto/biographical research and transformative education' In: Adult Learning in a Migration Society. London : Routledge.
    2021 Finnegan, F., (2021) 'Some reflections on the meaning, limits and challenges of critical biographical research' In: An Ecology of Life: Discourses, dialogue and diversity in biographical research. Rotterdamm : Brill./Sense.
    2021 Loxley, A. & Finnegan, F. (2021) 'Irish Travellers and Higher Education' In: Marginalised Communities in Higher Education: International Perspectives. London : Routledge.
    2020 Finnegan, Fergal & Grummell, Bernie (2020) 'Power and possibility in adult education: Reflecting on old themes in new times' In: Power and Possibility: Adult education in a complex and diverse world. leiden : Sense/Brill.
    2020 O'Neill, J. & Finnegan, F. (2020) 'Spalpeens on the Isle of Wonders: Reflections on work, power and collective resistance in Irish Further Education' In: Caliban’s Dance: FE after the Tempest. London : UCL/IOE Press and Trentham Books.
    2017 Fleming T.;Loxley A.;Finnegan F. (2017) 'Introduction' In: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education. London : Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI]
    2020 Grummell, Bernie & Finnegan, F. (2020) 'Criticality and creativity in research in Adult Education' In: Doing critical and creative adult education research. Leiden : Sense/Brill.
    2019 Finnegan, F (2019) 'Moving against and beyond neoliberal higher education in Ireland' In: Resisting neoliberalism in Education: Local, national and transnational perspectives. Bristol : Policy Press.
    2019 Finnegan, F & McCrea, N (2019) 'Funding, power and community development: an introduction' In: Funding, power and community development. Bristol : Policy Press.
    2019 Kokkos, A., Fleming, T. & Finnegan, f. (2019) 'Introduction' In: European Perspectives on Transformation theory. London : Palgrave Macmillan.
    2019 Fleming T., Kokkos, A. & Finnegan F. (2019) 'Context and Development of Transformation Theory in the European Field of Adult Education' In: European Perspectives on Transformation theory. London : Palgrave Macmillan.
    2019 Finnegan, F (2019) '‘Freedom Is a Very Fine Thing’: Individual and Collective Forms of Emancipation in Transformative Learning' In: European Perspectives on Transformation theory. London : Palgrave Macmillan.
    2019 Fleming T., Kokkos, A. & Finnegan F. (2019) 'Conclusions, Comparisons and Directions for Future Study' In: European Perspectives on Transformation theory. London : Palgrave Macmillan.
    2018 O’Neill, J., Merrill, B., Finnegan, F. & Revers, S. (2018) 'Intersecção das desigualdades no ensino superior: teorização de classe e género através de uma perspetiva feminista e o olhar de Bourdieu' In: Estudantes Não-tradicionais no Ensino Superior. Coimbra : CINEP.
    2017 Finnegan, F. (2017) 'Under the sovereign’s baleful gaze: Policy, practice and the making of Irish FET' In: The Principal: Power and Professionalism in Further Education. London : Institute of Education Press.
    2017 Fleming T., Finnegan F. & Loxley A. (2017) 'Introduction: Trends, policies, processes and practices' In: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education. London : Palgrave Macmillan.
    2017 Fleming T.;Loxley A.;Finnegan F. (2017) 'Key trends in Irish Higher Education and the emergence and development of access' In: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education. [DOI]
    2017 Loxley A.;Finnegan F.;Fleming T. (2017) 'Access and widening participation - stories from the policy domain' In: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education. [DOI]
    2017 Loxley A.;Finnegan F.;Fleming T. (2017) 'Routes in: Access categories, mechanisms and processes' In: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education. [DOI]
    2017 Finnegan F.;Fleming T.;Loxley A. (2017) 'The purpose of access: Equality, social mobility and the knowledge economy' In: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education. [DOI]
    2017 Finnegan F. (2017) 'Working class access to higher education: Structures, experiences and categories' In: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education. [DOI]
    2017 Loxley A.;Fleming T.;Finnegan F. (2017) 'Learning and teaching and non-traditional students in higher education' In: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education. [DOI]
    2017 Fleming T., Finnegan F. & Loxley A. (2017) 'Retention in Ireland's Higher Education Institutions' In: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education. London : Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI]
    2017 Fleming T.;Finnegan F.;Loxley A. (2017) 'Towards a conclusion' In: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education. [DOI]
    2016 Finnegan, F (2016) 'Let's get critical: Biographical research and critical realism' In: Now, Before and After Narrative Research. Magdeburg : Nisba Verlag.
    2014 Finnegan, F., Merrill, B. & Thunborg C. (2014) 'Introduction' In: Student Voices on Inequalities in European Higher Education: Challenges for Theory, Policy and Practice in a Time of Change. Abingdon : Routledge.
    2014 Fleming T., Finnegan F. (2014) 'Critical theory and non-traditional students' experience in Irish higher education' In: Student Voices on Inequalities in European Higher Education: Challenges for Theory, Policy and Practice in a Time of Change. London : Routledge. [DOI]
    2014 Finnegan F.;Fleming T.;Thunborg C. (2014) 'Enduring inequalities and student agency: Theorizing an agenda for change in higher education' In: Student Voices on Inequalities in European Higher Education: Challenges for Theory, Policy and Practice in a Time of Change. Abingdon : Routledge. [DOI]
    2014 Fleming, T;Finnegan, F (2014) 'A Critical Journey Towards Lifelong Learning: Including Non-Traditional Students in University' In: Higher Education in Ireland: Practices, policies and possibilities. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan.

    Peer Reviewed Journal

    Year Publication
    2021 Fergal Finnegan, Peter Lavender & Alan Tuckett with Trace Ollis (2021) 'Education as the practice of freedom'. Australian Journal of Adult Learning, .
    2021 Finnegan, F., McCrea, N. & Ní Chasaide (2021) 'Community development and financialization: making the connections'. Community Development Journal, 56 (1):1-20. [Full-Text]
    2020 Merrill B.;Finnegan F.;O'Neill J.;Revers S. (2020) '‘When it comes to what employers are looking for, I don’t think I’m it for a lot of them’: class and capitals in, and after, higher education*'. Studies in Higher Education, 45 (1):163-175. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2019 Finnegan, F., Valadas, S., O’Neill, J., Fragoso, A., & Paulos, L. (2019) 'The search for security in precarious times: non-traditional graduates perspectives on higher education and employment'. International Journal of Lifelong Education, . [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2017 Finnegan F.;Merrill B. (2017) ''We are as good as anybody else': a comparative study of working-class university students' experiences in England and Ireland'. British Journal of Sociology of Education, . [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2017 Hoggan C.;Mälkki K.;Finnegan F. (2017) 'Developing the Theory of Perspective Transformation: Continuity, Intersubjectivity, and Emancipatory Praxis'. Adult Education Quarterly, 67 (1):48-64. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2016 Finnegan, Fergal (2016) 'The future is unwritten: Democratic adult education against and beyond neoliberalism'. The Adult Learner, . [Full-Text]
    2016 Connolly, B;Finnegan, F (2016) 'Making Hope and History Rhyme Reflections on Popular Education and Leadership Following a Visit to Highlander'. Adult Learning, 27 :120-127. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2013 West L.;Fleming T.;Finnegan F. (2013) 'Connecting Bourdieu, Winnicott, and Honneth: Understanding the experiences of non-traditional learners through an interdisciplinary lens'. Studies in the Education of Adults, 45 (2):119-134. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2011 Finnegan, F., Fleming, T., Kurantowicz, E. & Nizińska, A. (2011) 'Uczenie się i uznanie: Doświadczenia studentów i badaczy w projekcie RANLHE'. Terazniejszoœæ-Czlowiek-Edukacja, 53 (1):7-19. [Full-Text]
    2008 Fergal Finnegan (2008) 'Neoliberalism, Irish society and adult education'. The Adult Learner, NA :45-67. [Full-Text]

    Conference Publication

    Year Publication
    2014 Finnegan, F. (2014) Paper read at the 11th International Transformative Learning Conference, October 24th Embodied experience, Transformative Learning and the production of space Teachers College,
    2014 Finnegan, F. & Dudka-Glowacki and D. (2014) Annual Conference of American Association of Adult and Continuing Education Collaboration and adventures across the Atlantic Charleston, North Carolina,
    2014 Finnegan F (2014) Spaces of Transformation and Transformation of Space. Proceedings of the 11th International Transformative Learning Conference . In: A. Nicolaides & D. Holt eds. Embodied experience, Transformative Learning and the production of space Teachers College Columbia University,
    2011 Finnegan, F. (2011) Paper read at Transformative Learning Conference: In a Time of Crisis: Individual and Collective Challenges, 28th May Learning as transformation or adaptation? Thinking with and against Mezirow and Bourdieu Athens,
    2010 Fleming , T. & Finnegan, F. (2010) Looking Back, Looking Forward: Learning, teaching & research in adult education past, present & future . In: B. Merrill & P. Armstrong eds. Towards a critical theory of access and retention in Irish HE Brighton: University of Sussex, Centre for Continuing Education; SCUTREA, [Full-Text]
    2010 Finnegan, F.with Field and J., Fleming and T., Holliday and M., Morgan-Klein and N. and West, L. (2010) The Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults (SCUTREA On Structure and subjectivity, reproduction and transformation: Understanding non-traditional students in higher education. Paper read at Looking Back, Looking Forward: Learning, teaching & research in adult education past, present & future Coventry,
    2009 Finnegan, F.with Fleming and T., Johnston and R., Merrill and B. and West, L. (2009) Paper read at The Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults Really useful research? Critical Perspectives on Evidence-Based Policy and Practice in Lifelong Learning Exploring HE retention and drop-out: A European biographical research approach Brighton,

    Conference Contribution

    Year Publication
    2021 Finnegan, F., (2021) Reflections on the meaning, limits and possibilities of critical adult education researchInaugural Lecture of Centro de Investigação em Educação de Adultos e Intervenção Comunitária (CEAD) Inaugural public lecture Algarve, 23/02/2021-.
    2021 Finnegan, F., (2021) ESRI Seminar Series, Hard Times, Challenging Futures: Confronting Educational Inequalities Tackling social class inequality in challenging times: Reflections on the use and limits of critical research Manchester Metropolitan University, 17/02/2021-.
    2020 Finnegan, F., (2020) EUCEN Fora on Active Citzenship Lifelong Learning University Lifelong Learning Rethinking LLL in the scope of active and global citizenship for the next decade Barcelona, 23/11/2020-27/11/2020.
    2020 Finnegan, F., (2020) Strengthening citizenship education at local level UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities Larissa, Greece, 12/11/2020-13/11/2020.
    2020 Finnegan, F., (2020) Persistent inequalities and the pulse of freedom: Reflecting on the power and the limits of higher education Special public lecture University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, 03/12/2020-.
    2017 Finnegan, F. (2017) 47th Conference of the Sociological Association of Ireland, 5th May Symposium on social class in Ireland: Beyond the mire of laws and figure? Working class students experience in and after HE Belfast, 05/05/2017-07/05/2017.
    2017 Finnegan, F. and Merrill, B. and Revers, S. and O’Neill, J. (2017) The discourse we live by: Life History and Biography Network,4th March You need postgraduate level education to work in Aldi these days’: Class, credentials and occupational aspirations in contemporary Higher Education Copenhagen, .
    2016 Finnegan, F. (2016) UCD Equality Studies Public Seminar Beyond ‘the mire of laws and figures’? A critical discussion of research and policy on working class access to Irish Higher Education University College Dublin, 27/04/2016-.
    2016 Finnegan, F. (2016) Equality Studies Equality Public Seminar Beyond ‘the mire of laws and figures’? A critical discussion of research and policy on working class access to Irish Higher Education UCD, 27/04/2016-.
    2016 Finnegan, F. & O’Neill, J. (2016) Building Critical Visions on Employability in European Higher Education: Listening to Students’ Voices ESREA 8th Triennial European Research Conference Maynooth University, .
    2016 Finnegan, F.with West, L. (2016) Life History and Biographical Research Conferenc A dialogue on democracy and resources of hope Canterbury Christ Church University, 08/03/2016-.
    2016 Finnegan, F. and Coulter, C. and Cox, L. and Moran, M. (2016) Roundtable at the Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI) 43rd Annual Conference, 13th May We make our history: Marxism and social movements in the twilight of neoliberalism University of Limerick, .
    2015 Finnegan, F.with Fitzsimons and C. (2015) Being an adult educator: Experiences, ideals and challenges, Presentation at The Further Education & Training (FET) Forum Colloquium, 18th February Paper on practitioner research in FE Waterford, .
    2015 Finnegan, F.with Merrill and B. (2015) ESREA (European Society for Research on the Education of Adults) Life History and Biographical Research Conference Songs of Innocence and experience: The politics of biographical research Milan, 08/03/2015-.
    2015 Finnegan, F. (2015) EUCEN Conference: Re-imagining Lifelong Learning Access policies in HE and the cramping of the sociological imagination Galway, 11/12/2015-12/12/2015.
    2015 Finnegan, F. (2015) Dimensions of Lifelong Learning: Past, Present and Future Echoes from the past and cries in the present: equality, recognition and the pulse of freedom in adult education Warwick University, 30/06/2015-.
    2015 Finnegan, F.with Kenny and M. (2015) Presentation at roundtable at Educational Studies of Ireland Conference, April 10th The Further Education and Training Strategy 2014-2019: A critical review Maynooth University, Maynooth, 09/04/2015-10/04/2015.
    2015 Finnegan, F. (2015) European Conference of Education: Education, Power and Empowerment Come build in the empty house’: Reimagining democracy and education in a time of change Brighton, .
    2014 Finnegan, F.with Connolly, B. (2014) Popular Education Network Conference Learning from each other's struggles: Radical education and the politics of knowledge Valletta University, Malta, .
    2014 Finnegan, F. (2014) Equality, respect and recognition in adult education Keynote address, Alumni Association of Ball State University Indiana, .
    2014 Finnegan, F. (2014) Paper read at Educational Studies of Ireland Conference, 11th April Spaces of identity, recognition and transition: working class students’ experiences of Irish Higher Education Athlone, .
    2014 Finnegan, F. (2014) International Conference on Critical Realism: From the Anatomy of the Global Crisis to the Ontology of Human Flourishing Class, habitus and reflexivity in working class students’ life and learning stories Institute of Education, London, 17/07/2014-21/07/2014.
    2014 Finnegan, F. (2014) SREA (European Society for Research on the Education of Adults ) Life History and Biographical Research Conference ‘Let’s get critical’: biographical research, critical realism and the challenge of producing emancipatory knowledge Otto Von Guericke University, Magdeburg, 07/03/2014-.
    2013 Finnegan, F.with Merrill, B. (2013) ESREA (European Society for Research on the Education of Adults) Access Research Conference Working class university students’ experience in England and Ireland: A comparative study of access and equality in a time of crisis Linkoping University, 29/11/2013-.
    2013 Finnegan, F. (2013) The philosophy and principles of adult education Annual Addiction Studies Seminar Maynooth, .
    2013 Finnegan, F. (2013) Annual Addiction Studies Seminar Critical thinking for a change? Maynooth, 02/03/2013-.
    2013 Finnegan, F. (2013) Access, equality and working class students’ experience in Irish HE. Paper read at Exploring difference and diversity in Irish Higher Education, 12th June We’re as good as anybody else. We matter Trinity College Dublin,Dublin, .
    2011 Finnegan, F.with Fleming and T. (2011) Seminar paper presented at the Conference: The Challenge of Access, Retention and Drop-out in European Higher Education: The experiences of non-traditional students, 7th April The statistical findings from Ireland Seville University, .
    2011 Fergal Finnegan (2011) Transformative Learning Conference: In a Time of Crisis: Individual and Collective Challenges Learning as Transformation or Adaptation? Thinking With and Against Mezirow and Bourdieu. Athens, 28/05/2011-.
    2011 Finnegan, F. (2011) All Ireland Conference for Doctoral Researchers in Education, 13th May Education for transformation? The experience of working class students in Higher Education UCD, Dublin, .
    2011 Finnegan, F. with Fleming. T. (2011) The Challenge of Access, Retention and and Drop-out in European Higher Education: Access and retention of non-traditional students: Narratives from Ireland Seville University, 06/04/2011-08/04/2011.
    2010 Field, J., Finnegan, F., Fleming, T., Holliday, M. Morgan-Klein, N. & West, L. (2010) On Structure and subjectivity, reproduction and transformation: Understanding non-traditional students in higher education On Structure and subjectivity, reproduction and transformation: Understanding non-traditional students in higher education Sussex, . [Full-Text]
    2010 Finnegan, F.with Fleming and T. (2010) 2nd Advanced Bilateral RANLHE Research Seminar Access and retention: Experiences of non-traditional learners in HE University of Lower Silesaia, Wroclaw, Poland, 28/04/2010-.
    2010 Finnegan, F. (2010) The British Sociological Association: Bourdieu and Education Seminar Habitus, recognition and reflexivity: Developing research tools for exploring the relationship between class and identity in education Queens University, Belfast, 30/03/2010-.
    2010 Finnegan, F. (2010) All Ireland Conference for Doctoral Researchers in Education, 22nd May For they know not what they do? Interpreting student narratives of class and identity in Irish Higher education institutions Belfast, .
    2010 Finnegan, F., Fleming T., Loxley and A. and Kenny, A. (2010) t British Sociological Association Annual Conference: Inequalities and Social Justice Mapping the first-degree destinations of mature disadvantaged students in three Irish higher education institutions Glasgow, .
    2009 Finnegan, F.with Fleming and T., Loxley and A. and Kenny, A. (2009) Paper read at Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Conference Challenging Higher Education Knowledge and Practice, 8th December There was a panic at the beginning! Disadvantaged mature student experiences in and out of higher education in the Irish context Newport, Wales, .
    2009 Finnegan, F. (2009) Milan discourse s Biographical transitions, class and identity in the narratives of mature working class students after graduation Milan, .
    2009 Finnegan, F.with Fleming and T., Loxley and A. and Kenny, A. (2009) Paper read at An Pobal Conference, 24th September Where next?: Mapping and understanding the post first degree destinations of mature disadvantaged students in three Higher Education Institutions Dublin, .
    2009 Finnegan, F.with Fleming and T., Loxley and A. and Kenny, A. (2009) Paper read at The Educational Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, 3rd April Education and disadvantage: The mature student experience Kilkenny, .
    2008 Finnegan, F. with Fleming, T and T., Loxley and A. and Kenny, A. (2008) Annual Conference of Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE), ‘Valuing Higher Education’ Where next?: Mapping and understanding the post first degree destinations of mature disadvantaged students in three Higher Education Institutions Liverpool, .

    Published Report

    Year Publication
    2017 O' Neill, J. Finnegan, F, Merill, B et al (2017) In search for decent work after university: a handbook for non- traditional graduate. Warwick University Centre for Lifelong Learning, .
    2017 Revers, S, Merrill, B, Finnegan et al (2017) BUILDING BRIDGES TO SUSTAINABLE EMPLOYMENT (STAFF & EMPLOYER HANDBOOK. Warwick University Centre for Lifelong Learning, . [Full-Text]

    Report

    Year Publication
    2018 Finnegan, F. & O'Neill, J. (2018) Learner Voice and FET: an evaluation report of the National Further Education Learner Fora for 2016 & 2017. Dublin: REPORT
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