Research

New knowledge is created through research and through the scholarly activities of research and teaching we help adults to discover new knowledge, create new understandings, ask significant and critical questions and form well founded arguments and opinions. In this way we both increase the ability of adults to access higher education and the ability of professional educators to enhance their teaching skills.

Read more about Research in Adult Learning and Education.

We are delighted to announce the Centre for the Study of Irish Protestantism.

Latest edition of The Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education

Reports on Adult Learning Projects are available:

• Read the report on engaging in lifelong learning.

  We are participating in Read more about it and see the Dialogue website!

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RECENT DEPARMENTAL RESEARCH PROJECTS:

• What happens to mature students of NUIM after they graduate? Read the report funded by and written for Combat Poverty Agency:
  Fleming, T., Loxley, A., Finnegan, F. & Kenny, A. (2009). Where Next?: Mapping and understanding the Post-First Degree Destinations of Mature Disadvantaged Students in three Irish Higher Education Institutions. Dublin: Combat Poverty Agency.

• Want to know about experiences of non-traditional students in European Higher Education? Read this RANLHE report: Merrill, B., Armstrong, P., Alheit, P., Schoemer, F., Rheinlander, K., Bron, A., Thunborg, C., Nizinska, A., Kurantowicz, E., Field, J., Morgan-Klein, N., West, L., Monteaguedo, J.G., Ballesteros, M.A., Finnegan, F. & Fleming, T. (2010). Experiences of Non-Traditional Students in European Higher Education: Student Experiences. Poland: University of Lower Silesia. URL: http://www.ranlhe.dsw.edu.pl/documents.html

• Want to know about cultural and institutional experiences of non-traditional students in European Higher Education? Read this RANLHE report: Merrill, B., Armstrong, P., Alheit, P., Schoemer, F., Rheinlander, K., Bron, A., Thunborg, C., Nizinska, A., Kurantowicz, E., Field, J., Morgan-Klein, N., West, L., Monteaguedo, J.G., Ballesteros, M.A., Finnegan, F. & Fleming, T. (2010). Experiences of Non-Traditional Students in European Higher Education: Cultural and Institutional Perspectives. URL: http://www.ranlhe.dsw.edu.pl/documents.html

Research and Adult Education websites:

• Aontas the National Adult Learning Organisation iin Ireland;
• The Adult Learner: Journal of Adult & Community Education in Ireland;
• National Adult Literacy Agency NALA ;
• European Society for Research in the Education of Adults ESREA ;
• European Association for the Education of Adults EAEA;
• For information on Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL) - click on http://reaction.vdu.lt/ ;
• Development Education website: www.developmenteducation.ie
• infed (the informal education homepage) is an open, independent and not-for-profit encyclopedia.
• EU funded study of dropout and retention among non-traditional students across Europe. Click here.