Dr. Aoife Lynam

Biography

Dr Aoife Lynam is an Assistant Professor in Psychology of Education in the School of Education at Trinity College Dublin. She was awarded the Trinity Gold Medal (2009) for outstanding undergraduate performance and received a Trinity College Dublin Faculty Scholarship (2012). She is also a former Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Scholar (2013"2015). Her doctoral research, which was supported by two scholarships, examined the experiences of bereaved young people in Irish primary and post-primary schools. Dr Lynam has over 18 years" experience in education and has worked full-time in higher education since 2015. She lectures in Psychology of Education, Research Methods, and Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE), and has extensive experience supervising pre-service teachers both on school placement and in the completion of their research dissertations. She serves as Programme Coordinator for the M.Ed. in Psychology of Education and as Dissertation Coordinator for the Research Methods module within the Professional Master of Education programme, contributing to programme development, student support, and postgraduate research supervision. Her research and collaborative work has spanned a number of institutions, including Trinity College Dublin, Stranmillis University College, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Hibernia College, and Dublin City University (DCU). Dr Lynam is an Advisory Board Member of the Irish Childhood Bereavement Network (ICBN), a member of the Management Board of the Trinity Research in Childhood Centre (TRiCC), and serves on the management board of the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities (TCPID). She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI). Dr Lynam has published and presented her research widely at both national and international levels.