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Researcher and teacher educator based in the UAE, with expertise in early childhood education, language education, multilingual education, English-medium education, and education within families including TCKs and local contexts, and a heartfelt and growing interest in embedding sustainable development concepts across integrated curricula. I am seeking service opportunities within the education sector, to go hand in hand with my current role as a faculty member engaged with research, teaching and service in English Language Education and Early Childhood Education. I love all languages and am proud to be a speaker of Irish, English, German and French, with a smattering of Spanish and Italian. Currently learning Slovenian as a beginner, with plans to get to a CEFR B1/ B2 level in the next couple of years. Also learning Emirati Arabic as a commitment for the year. I am an experienced educator and administrator in higher education, primary level and in the early years. I have spent half my career to date in Ireland, and half in the UAE. I have worked in a variety of administrative roles including Director of the Early Childhood Learning Center at Zayed University, Chair of the Department of Education Studies in the College of Education at Zayed University, and Assistant Dean for Student Affairs. Prior to that, I worked as a primary school teacher and principal in Ireland, as well as in teacher education with Mary Immaculate College (University of Limerick) and Hibernia College. I also served as a kindergarten Head of Faculty as my first role in the UAE. Here is my Google Scholar profile where you can find links to my work: https://scholar.google.ae/citations?user=S6OveOMAAAAJ&hl=en

Listed skills include Lecturing, Teaching, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, and 16 others.