| Qualification |
Institution |
Class of Degree |
Title of Dissertation |
Date Conferred |
| Ph.D. Socio-Political Theatre |
Birmingham City University |
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Augusto Boal - A Critical Encounter: ‘Towards a Theory ...... ’ |
2007 |
| MA Drama |
University of Central England |
Honours |
United We Stand, Divided We Fall? - An examination of the generic arts debate and its relevance to drama in education. |
1994 |
| PG.Dip. Drama in Education |
University of Central England |
Honours |
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1994 |
| ALCM (Associate of the London College of Music) |
London College of Music |
Honours |
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1990 |
| B.Ed. |
Mary Immaculate College of Education, Ireland |
Honours |
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1989 |
| Project title |
Exploring Minds: An early years arts pilot project |
| Summary |
Fingal County Council Arts Office, Fingal Traveller Organisation, community artists and the School of Education Arts Education Research Group, aim to pilot a unique Early Years Arts programme for Traveller children and their parents living in halting sites in Skerries and Swords. The programme will introduce young children and their parents to a quality arts experience, primarily through the media of Music and Visual Arts. Strand One will be developed as an 'Artist Residency Model for Arts Development and Parental Involvement’, and will involve the use of the DIEAC Framework in all aspects of its design, implementation and evaluation. |
| Funding Agency |
Fingal County Council and The Arts Council |
| Programme |
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| Type of Project |
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| Date from |
2012 |
| Date to |
2013 |
| Person Months |
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| Project title |
The DIEAC Framework (Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Arts in Context) |
| Summary |
In response to the diversity and significance of collaborative arts practices in a range of social and community contexts, the School of Education and the Long Room Hub (TCD) in partnership with Create (National Development Agency for Collaborative Arts in Social and Community Contexts) and the Arts Council, propose to research and develop the DIEAC framework. This framework is proposed on the basis of providing an adaptive and flexible tool for designing, implementing and evaluating arts in context (DIEAC).
Existing guidelines and models mainly cater either for project planning or retrospective evaluation. This forward-looking framework is predicated on the basis of providing a holistic approach to artists working in social and community contexts. The DIEAC framework will utilise the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme, managed by Create, as the source material for the research enquiry.
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| Funding Agency |
School of Education Arts Education Research Group, Create and The Arts Council |
| Programme |
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| Type of Project |
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| Date from |
2011 |
| Date to |
2014 |
| Person Months |
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| Project title |
Social skills education through drama for children and young people on the autistic spectrum |
| Summary |
Asperger Syndrome (AS) is a pervasive developmental disorder, which most researchers feel falls at the higher-functioning end of the Autistic Spectrum. Individuals with AS can experience significant difficulties with social interaction and communication, flexible thinking, and imaginative play. People with the syndrome are often characterised by an impairment in social interaction as well as stereotyped patterns of behaviour, interests, and activities. There is no known treatment that has any effect on the basic impairments underlying Asperger Syndrome, but challenges can be diminished by appropriate management and education. The prime motivation for this funded research project came from the realisation that although it is widely recognised that young people with Asperger Syndrome lack the ability to empathise with other people, there is little research on how to help them develop this ability, as most literature in the field focuses on the outcome rather than the process: on methods to enable children achieve social skills by imitating the ‘correct’ (acceptable) behaviours, rather than helping them decode the images they see and understand the meanings below the surface. This project aims to investigate whether the sustained use of an integrated creative arts approach with specific focus on the use of drama in education will lead to a more successful social, personal, emotional and cognitive education of young people with AS. It aims to bring about a greater understanding of what it means to live with AS and the implications on one’s life. |
| Funding Agency |
ASPIRE (Asperger Syndrome Association of Ireland); National Lottery funding |
| Programme |
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| Type of Project |
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| Date from |
2009 |
| Date to |
2012 |
| Person Months |
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| Project title |
Integrated Executive Function (IEF) Training |
| Summary |
This study is investigating the effects of a novel form of brain training on children and young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It is a collaborative study between researchers in Trinity College, DCU and ASPIRE, and is the first of its kind to take place in Ireland. |
| Funding Agency |
ASPIRE (Asperger Syndrome Association of Ireland) |
| Programme |
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| Type of Project |
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| Date from |
2009 |
| Date to |
2012 |
| Person Months |
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| Project title |
'Corduroy’ - a short film based on a young adult with high functioning autism |
| Summary |
Consultant to a short film based on the life of a young adult with high functioning autism (written and directed by Hugh O'Connor).
‘Corduroy’ was selected for competition at the 60th Berlin Film Festival (2010) and at the Dublin Film Festival (2010).
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| Funding Agency |
Irish Film Board |
| Programme |
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| Type of Project |
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| Date from |
2009 |
| Date to |
2010 |
| Person Months |
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| More Research Projects>>> |
| Carmel O'Sullivan, Teacher in Role: An exploration of its application in the classroom as a creative pedagogy, Research seminar , Ioannina, Greece, March 16 to 18, 2012, The Municipal and Regional Theatre of Ioannina, 1 - 28pp |
| O'Sullivan, C. , Drama for Learning. A 21st Century Vision for Education, featuring Dorothy Heathcote and Cecily O'Neill [3 hour DVD], 2012, - |
| Role-Playing in, editor(s)L. Cohen, L. Manion and K. Morrison , Research Methods in Education (7th edition), Oxon, Routledge, 2011, pp510 - 527, [Carmel O'Sullivan] |
| O'Sullivan, C. and Karavoltsou, A., Drama in education and self-directed learning for adults, Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, Volume 17, (2), 2011, p64 - 79 |
| Malone, N. and O'Sullivan, C. , The Stage and the City: Narrative, Identity and Place in Dermot Bolger's The Ballymun Trilogy (2004-2008), RIDE - The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 16, (2), 2011, p235 - 250 |
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