Lecturer

Email: gavin.duffy@tudublin.ie

Gavin Duffy is a lecturer in the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, TU Dublin and coordinator of ‘SellSTEM’, a Doctoral Training Network funded under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. Worth just over €4M, SellSTEM consists of 15 PhD students spread across 10 universities in Europe whose projects aim to raise spatial ability levels of children in Europe, especially girls, so they are better prepared for the cognitive demands of STEM learning. Gender is a major theme in SellSTEM given the male advantage in spatial ability and the persistent under-representation of women in STEM higher education and careers, this research topic is highly relevant to both society and economy.  Gavin spent a year as visiting scholar at Ohio State University in 2016/17 and collaborates with researchers in Europe, USA and Australia.  He is also a member of CREATE, the STEM education research group at TU Dublin

Research/Practice Interests: Spatial ability in STEM learning/Project-based learning/Community-based learning

Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinoduffy/ ; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3049-7030