Donald Ewing

Donald Ewing

Head of Education and Policy, Dyslexia Association of Ireland (DAI)


Biography

Donald Ewing has worked as an educational psychologist for twenty years in a variety of settings including early years, primary and secondary school and third-level settings. He holds an accredited postgraduate professional qualification in Educational Psychology from the University of Dundee and is a Chartered Psychologist with the Psychological Society of Ireland. Donald is a previous chairperson of the Psychological Society of Ireland’s Division of Educational Psychology and is an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society. Donald trained at post-graduate level in primary education at the University of Edinburgh and has worked as a teacher in a range of settings in the UK, Ireland and Japan. He has worked with the Dyslexia Association of Ireland (DAI) since 2012. Donald has worked in policy roles in central government with the Department of Education and Skills in the Scottish Government; and the Department of Children and Youth and the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) in Ireland.