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Dr. John Walsh

Dr. John Walsh

Ussher Asst. Prof. in Higher Education, Education

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Biography

Dr. John Walsh is a lecturer with the School of Education, specialising in higher education studies. He is co-ordinator of the Diploma/M.Ed strand in Teaching and Learning (Higher Education), which offers a third-level teaching qualification. Dr. Walsh is a member of the Cultures, Academic Values and Education research group. He was previously employed as a contract researcher with the Centre for Contemporary Irish History. John Walsh has lectured with the School of Education, the Department of History (TCD), Marino Institute of Education and CICE Rathmines. John Walsh was awarded a Ph.D in history of education in 2006. He also holds an M. Litt in the history of the Catholic Church.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Creating a Modern Educational System? International Influence, Domestic Elites and the transformation of the Irish Educational Sector, 1950-75 in, editor(s)Brendan Walsh , Essays in the History of Irish Education, London, Palgrave Macmillan , 2016, ppp.235 - p.266, [John Walsh]Book Chapter, 2016, TARA - Full Text
  • Developing Student Leadership: A case study in informal learning - the class representative system of Trinity College Dublin Students' Union in, editor(s)Maria Yarosh, Anna Serbati, Aidan Seery , Developing Generic Competences outside the University Classroom, Granada, Spain, University of Granada, 2017, pp79 - 88, [Walsh, John, Byrne, Katie, Kenny, Molly, O'Farrell, Ciara]Book Chapter, 2017
  • Ann Nolan and John Walsh, "'In what orbit we shall find ourselves, no one could predict'": institutional reform, the university merger and ecclesiastical influence on Irish higher education in the 1960s', Irish Historical Studies, 41, (159), 2017, p77 - 96Journal Article, 2017, URL
  • John Walsh, Higher Education in Ireland, 1922-2016 Politics, Policy and Power - a history of higher education in the Irish state., 1st, E book and hard cover in England, Ireland, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2019, 1-513ppBook, 2019, DOI
  • John Walsh, 'Nobody's Ideal' Augustine Birrell, William Walsh and the evolution of the Irish Universities Act 1908, History of Education: Journal of the History of Education Society, (7 January 2022), 2022Journal Article, 2022, URL
  • Universities and Colleges': Higher Education and the Independent Irish State, 1922-1945 in, editor(s)Prof Brendan Walsh , Education Policy in Ireland 1922 to the Present, London, Springer online, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp473 - 522, [John Walsh]Book Chapter, 2022, URL
  • Women's educational activism and higher education in Ireland, 1850-1912 in, editor(s)Jyoti Atwal, Ciara Breathnach and Sarah-Anne Buckley , Gender and History, Ireland 1852-1922, Routledge, Routledge, 2022, pp193 - 206, [John Walsh]Book Chapter, 2022, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • The politics of educational expansion in, editor(s)Gary Murphy and Brian Girvin , The Lemass Era: Politics and Society in the Ireland of Seán Lemass, Dublin, UCD Press, 2005, pp146 - 165, [John Walsh]Book Chapter, 2005
  • John Walsh, 'Have the snakes come back?: The family and the defence of Catholic educational structures in Ireland (1957-1975), The History of the Family: An International Quarterly. Special Issue. Ireland: Church, State and Society 1900-1975, 13, (4), 2008, p416 - 425Journal Article, 2008, URL
  • John Walsh, The Politics of Expansion: the transformation of educational policy in the Republic of Ireland, 1957-72, 1st, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2009Book, 2009
  • John Walsh, 'A quiet revolution - international influence, domestic elites and the transformation of higher technical education in Ireland 1959-72, Irish Educational Studies, 30, (3), 2011, p365 - 381Journal Article, 2011, DOI , URL
  • Eamon de Valera, 1921-75 in, editor(s)Tom Dunne, John Coolahan, Maurice Manning, Gearóid O Tuathaigh , The National University of Ireland 1908-2008: Centenary Essays, Dublin, UCD Press, 2008, pp135 - 145, [John Walsh]Book Chapter, 2008
  • John Walsh, 'Ministers, bishops and the changing balance of power in Irish education 1950-70', Irish Historical Studies, XXXVIII, (149), 2012, pp.108 - p.127Journal Article, 2012
  • John Walsh, 'The problem of Trinity College Dublin': a historical perspective on rationalisation in higher education in Ireland'. , Irish Educational Studies, 2013Journal Article, 2013, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • John Walsh, The Hunt Report and higher education policy in the Republic of Ireland: 'an international solution to an Irish problem?' , Studies in Higher Education, 40, (6), 2015, p28 - 45Journal Article, 2015
  • Andrew Loxley, Aidan Seery and John Walsh (eds), Higher education in Ireland: practices, policies and possibilities, eds A. Loxley, A. Seery and J. Walsh, 1st, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 1 - 256ppBook, 2014
  • 'The Transformation of Higher Education in Ireland, 1945-80' in, editor(s)A. Loxley, A. Seery and J. Walsh, , Higher education in Ireland: practices, policies and possibilities, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp5 - 32, [John Walsh]Book Chapter, 2014
  • 'A Contemporary History of Irish Higher Education, 1980-2011' in, editor(s)A. Loxley, A. Seery and J. Walsh , Higher education in Ireland: practices, policies and possibilities,, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp33 - 54, [John Walsh]Book Chapter, 2014
  • Irish Educational Studies, 33, 2, (2014), 119 - 222p, Walsh, J., McCoy, S., Seery, A., Conway, P., [eds.], Special issueJournal, 2014, URL
  • Loxley, Andrew, Seery, Aidan, Walsh, John, Investment in Education and the tests of time, Irish Educational Studies, 33, (2), 2014, p173 - 191Journal Article, 2014, URL
  • John Walsh, Schools and schooling, Review of Schools and schooling, 1650-2000: new perspectives on the history of education, the eighth Seamus Heaney lectures, by James Kelly and Susan Hegarty , History of Education, 2018Review, URL
  • Amélia Veiga, Tim Seidenschnur, European Universities in an Age of Pandemic: Ireland, Working Papers on University Reform, 37, Centre for Global Higher Education Futures (CHEF), Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, December, 2022, p195 - 226Report, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • An era of expansion, 1945-75 in, editor(s)James Kelly , St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra: A History, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2006, pp158 - 183, [John Walsh]Book Chapter
  • John Walsh, Patrick Hillery: the official biography, 1st, Dublin, New Island Press, 2008, 1 - 608ppBook
  • John Walsh, Collen - 200 Years of Building and Civil Engineering in Ireland: A history of the Collen family business 1810-2010, 1st, Dublin, Lilliput Press, 2010Book

Research Expertise

My research interests include higher education in Ireland; educational policy in a national and international context; the interaction between church and state in education and history of education in contemporary Ireland. My current interests include the impact of the Hunt report and the influence of international agencies on national educational policies.

Social Justice, Education, Social Justice, Education,

Recognition

  • Award from TCD Association and Trust 2006
  • Postgraduate Studentship, Centre for Contemporary Irish History 2002-05
  • Member of Educational Studies Association of Ireland, 2013 to date. 2022
  • Member, Irish Historical Studies, 2016 to date. 2022
  • Member, Executive Committee, Educational Studies Association of Ireland, 2016 to 2020. 2020
  • Member, Executive Committee, TCD Association and Trust, 2006 to date. to date