Pauline Garvey

Throughout my career, I have made inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional teaching collaborations in Ireland and internationally.

I have given taught in National College of Art and Design, Dublin (2024), Lyon (2022) Queens (2022) University College London, Vienna, Slovakian Academy of Sciences, Singapore University of Technology and Design.

I have shown both education leadership and programme development in my on-going long-term work within the Anthropology Department.

In 2020, a past student of Anthropology (BA) and Design and Innovation (MA) committed €8000 over four years as a bursary to financially help MA students. This led to the establishment of The Susan Hunter Scholarship in Material Culture. Her only caveat was that the scholarship should be in material culture. This undergraduate course ‘had a profound effect on me.  In a way it explained what the ‘subject’ Anthropology was/is…. The scholarship I set up after graduating was as a direct result of that module. And it was why I specified that it should go to a student whose field was Material Culture’ 

From 2014-2022: I have acted as Chair for Department Review of PhD Progression for 8 years and been a regular department representative on the John and Pat Hume Funding Committee. I have shown leadership and experience in designing and implementing a variety of assessment tasks

In 2021, I redesigned the Postgraduate Curriculum for the Department of Anthropology. In collaboration with my Head of Department, Hana Cervinkova, I revaluated all the course offerings, the pedagogic objectives for this level, the credit requirements for our postgraduate students. This redevelopment was intended to incorporate a theoretical strand for those students who are new to the discipline, but also incorporate a strand that would familiarise them with ethical requirements and practical how-to advice in the development of research proposal. As well as deciding the meta-level conceptual aspects of the postgraduate curriculum, I worked with departmental administrators in deciding on the timetable and arranged early evening lectures to attract potential students who might be employed. I allocated the times for international guest speakers and oversaw the promotional material advertising the programme in international conferences in Ireland, Europe, and the US. I assumed responsivity for the Postgraduate Information Evenings and Open Days for 7 years between 2015-2022 and spoke to our 3^rd year students each spring to encourage them to consider a postgraduate degree in Anthropology.

2019: MOOC: As part of my participation in the ASSA project, I contributed to the highly successful launch of our massive open online course: An Anthropology of Smartphones: Communication, Ageing and Health, hosted on FutureLearn.  We currently have 1832 people registered.

Teaching that Enhances Departmental Initiatives:

2014-2022: Departmental Director of Postgraduate Studies.

I occupied a key role in the department in directing the postgraduate programme in Anthropology for eight years. This involved ongoing communication with young scholars, assisting applications for entry into the programme, overseeing annual progress reports, participating in John and Pat Hume funding applications and advising when issues arose. This role requires a blend of capacities from the fine-tuned knowledge of the programme, to sensitivity to the needs and requirements of colleagues, and the inevitable pastoral work demanded of when overseeing student progression. Over that period of time we had about 10-20 MA students and 10 PhD students and I carried responsibility for fielding the queries for both MA and doctoral students as they moved through the structured PhD programme.

In step with University requirements, and responding to the launch of the BBS International Business and Global Cultures as a stand-alone degree, I introduced a module on Consumption that will form a core offering for this cohort of students.

2012 - 2014: I collaborateded with Dr Mark Maguire and Dr Frank Devitt in the planning and establishment of a new postgraduate programme, the MSc in Design Innovation.

2013: I created the Postgraduate Certificate in Anthropology on realizing that there was a significant cohort of prospective students interested in undertaking postgraduate study in Anthropology but lacked essential training in the discipline.

2013: I led a pilot scheme in collaboration with the Access Office - the first of its kind in the university - to incorporate a critical writing and reading course into second year tutorials. Hitherto fore, this course was available only to incoming mature students.

2010: I personally established and taught on a joint module between the MA Social Anthropology at Maynooth University, and the MA Material and Visual Culture at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin with the aim of establishing material culture dialogues between anthropologists and design students.

I have contributed to a teaching collaboration designed by Johan Lindqvist (Anthropology, Stockholm) and John Freyer (Univerisity of Iowa and Fulbright Fellow, Stockholm) with colleagues in Stockholm's University College of Arts, Craft and Design Konstfack.