Lecturer

Email: susan.osshaughnessy@tudublin.ie

Tel: 01 2205492

Dr Susan O’Shaughnessy is a lecturer in German, Erasmus Academic Coordinator and Year 3 coordinator for programmes in the Department of Languages. She has honours degrees in French and German, Spanish and Humanities, an MA in German, and a doctorate in higher education (EdD) from the University of Sheffield. Her doctoral thesis examined the changing professional identity of German language lecturers in Irish higher education institutions.  

Apart from lecturing in German language and cultural and literary studies Susan has taught Spanish, European Studies, Communications and Professional Development, as well as English for Academic Purposes to Erasmus and international students across the City campus.  She carried out the role of Promotions and Recruitment Officer for the College of Engineering and Built Environment for several years.  

Her research interests include German for specialised purposes; second language acquisition; the use of technology in language teaching and learning; student transitions and articulation; the Erasmus student experience; professional identity and change management; issues in higher education; German cultural and literary studies. 

 

Publications / conference presentations 

O’Shaughnessy, S. (2011) ‘All Change? Professional Identities of German Language Lecturers in a Changing Structural Field’, Germanistik in Irland, Vol. 6, pp. 179-202.  

Presentation to University of Sheffield Conference on Researching Higher Education and Lifelong Learning (February 2011) ‘Institutional habitus and the field of higher education’. 

O’Shaughnessy, S. (2012) ‘Adult education as theory, practice and research: the captive triangle’, book review, Level3, June 2012, available at http://level3.dit.ie. 

Llorens, M., O’Shaughnessy, S., Carr, M., Sheridan, D., Sorby, S. and Bowe, B. (2014) ‘Articulation and progression: an investigation into the transition of engineering students from applied to theoretical programmes’, conference paper, SEFI 2014 Annual Conference, Birmingham, September 2014, available at http://www.sefi.be/conference-2014/0049.pdf.  

Presentation to HEIT Symposium Higher Education in Transformation (March 2015), ‘An Insurmountable Gap: Can We Balance Incoming and Outgoing Erasmus Exchanges Among Engineering Students?’ 

O’Shaughnessy, S., Farrell, F., Beagon, U., McCarrick, A.M. and Perez, L.C. (2015) ‘Is this ‘transfer shock’? Examining the perceptions of engineering students who articulate within the Irish higher education context’, conference paper, 2015 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), El Paso, Texas, USA, available at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/7344010/proceeding?refinementName=Author&searchWithin=transfer%20shock.  

Presentation to 14th AFIS Conference New Beginnings from a Franco-Irish Perspective, (October 2021) ‘An Irish Soldier of Fortune in the Ruhr: The life and times of William Thomas Mulvany (1806 – 1885)’.