Associate Professor in Education. Programme Director, P-TECH & Programme Director, MAEP

ita.kennelly@ncirl.ie

Key Responsibilities at NCI

• Programme Director, Certificate in P-TECH & Certificate in Educational Practice for P-TECH
• Programme Director, MA in Educational Practice
• Curriculum Development/Academic Lead P-TECH Curriculum
• Assistant Professor and Module Leader – Educational Practice for Diversity & inclusion and Contemporary and Enduring Questions in Education (PGDip in Educational Practice for Further Education), Academic Foundations & Scholarship and Managing your Learning & Academic Practice (B.A. in Early Childhood Care),
• Research Supervisor – M.A in Educational Practice & B.A. in Early Childhood Care and Education
• Placement Tutor - PGDip in Educational Practice for Further Education

Research Interests

• Academic Writing, Research Supervision, Supporting students’ academic development, Reflective Practice, Critical Thinking, Teacher and Student Resilience.

Book

• Kennelly, Ita and Oke, Meera (2024) Academic Skills in Early Childhood Education and Care: Self-Inquiry, Learning and Writing for Students and Practitioners. Springer Texts in Education . Springer, Cham. ISBN 978-3-031-59570-7

Book Chapter

• Donnelly, Roisin and Kennelly, Ita (2024) A Framework-based Cross-institutional CPD for Academic Staff in Gen-AI Literacy, Critical Inquiry, and Authentic Assessment. In: Effective Practices in AI Literacy Education: Case Studies and Reflections. Emerald, Leeds, pp. 51-59. ISBN 978-1-83608-853-0

Papers in Refereed Journals

• Donnelly, Roisin, Kennelly, Ita and McAvinia, Claire (2022) A multimodal framework for supporting academic writers’ perspectives, practice and performance. Teaching in Higher Education, 29 (4). pp. 936-952. ISSN 1470-1294

• Kennelly, Ita (2018) New takes on voice: Exploring metaphors and perspectives on voice in academic writing. ICEP conference proceedings.

• Kennelly, Ita (2017) Writing with purpose(s): A discussion on the different conceptions of academic writing in contemporary higher education. Irish Journal of Academic Practice.

Conference Papers

• Kennelly, Ita (2024) A curriculum design approach to supporting learning and progression pathways. In: QQI Special Pre-Conference Workshop Event, Dublin.
• Kennelly, Ita, Casey, Leo, Conaty, Y. and Sweeny, R. (2024) Innovation, commitment & capability: A partnership approach to creating new pathways for post primary students in Ireland. In: International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI). ICSEI, Trinity College Dublin.
• Kennelly, Ita (2023) A new pathway for learning: The P-TECH initiative in Ireland. In: OECD International Online Knowledge Exchange Conference. OECD.
• Kennelly, Ita (2022) Embracing the evolution of teaching identity through reflection beyond COVID-19. In: ILTA EdTech Conference. ILTA, Cork, Ireland.
• Kennelly, Ita (2022) A new pathway for learning: The P-TECH initiative in Ireland. In: QQI 10th Anniversary Conference. QQI, Dublin, Ireland.
• Kennelly, Ita (2019) Moving modalities: An exploration on how demarcating the modes of reader, writer and reviewer can enhance academic writing pedagogy. In: Education Research & Enterprise Conference, University of Brighton. 
• Kennelly, Ita (2018) New takes on voice: Exploring metaphors and perspectives on voice in academic writing. In: International Conference on Engaging Pedagogy (ICEP).

Teaching Resource

• Kennelly, Ita and Donnelly, Roisin (2023) AI supporting student academic writing in higher education.

Thesis

• Voice matters: Narratives and perspectives on voice in academic writing. (Doctoral thesis)