Lecturer

Email: Sheila.coyle@tudublin.ie

Tel: 012207419

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Psychology, Loughborough University

MSc in Criminology and The Criminal Justice System, Loughborough University

MA Social Research, Loughborough University

Sheila has been involved in the voluntary and community sector in both a voluntary and professional capacity. This has included working within the homeless services, with children and adults with an intellectual disability and supporting learning with children living in direct provision. She has also organised and facilitated workshops on areas including sustainable development and provided support to volunteer groups in Ireland and overseas. From 2012 to 2018 she was a board member and then chair of the board of Development Perspectives (DP), a Development Education NGO, which works with partners in Ireland and around the world with the aim of tackling poverty, inequality and climate change through transformative education and active global citizenship.

Teaching Areas

Teaching on the Community Development and Youth Work programme, and the Applied Social Care in Social Studies programmes.

Introduction to Psychology, Psychology Across the Lifespan, Social Psychology, Psychological Perspectives on Development, Global Development, Undergraduate Research Supervision. 

Research Interests:

Psychology and SDGs, attachment, anti-racism and wellbeing, development education, SDGs.

Conference Presentations

Ní Chonaill, B., McGlynn, L., Coyle, S., Cluskey, M., Lawlor, G., & Smith,G. (June 2021) Embedding Anti-racism in the Community Development and Youth Work programme. Presented at the Virtual World Community Development Conference Nairobi, Kenya.

Cluskey, M., Lawlor, G., Smith, G., Ní Chonaill, B., McGlynn, L., & Coyle,S.(June 2019) Sharing Our Story as Community Educators: Ten Years of Community and Youth Development in ITB. Presented at the World Community Development Conference Dundee, Scotland.

Coyle, S. (June 2018) The Most Significant Change Stories from Development Perspectives Insight Programme. Presented at the World Community Development Conference Maynooth, Ireland.

Coyle, S. (March 2017) Sustainable Development Goal 16 and its Application to Social Care. Presented at the Social Care Social Care Ireland Conference Galway, Ireland.

 

Publications:

Ni Chonaill, Brid; Cluskey, Mairead; Lawlor, Georgina; McGlynn, Liam; Coyle, Sheila; Smith, Garreth; and MacNamara, Noirin, "Embedding Anti-Racism in the Community Development and Youth Work Programme (CDYW) 2020/2021" (2021). Case Studies. 17.

https://arrow.tudublin.ie/totalarcschcase/17