staff at journalism with a language
The following are staff that assist on the BA in journalism with a language. Click any person's name to read a short biography.
- Harry Browne
- Sean Byrne
- Grainne Crean
- Richard Fitzsimons
- Michael Foley
- Nora French
- Pat Hannon
- Paul Irvine
- John Kenny
- Eavan Murphy
- Ite Ni Choinnaith
- Susan Norton
- Tom O'Connor
- Barbara O'Shea
- Stephen Ryan
BA, MA, Grad Dip in Journalism
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As a journalist he has worked as a reporter, sub-editor and desk editor in The Irish Times, and writes a weekly radio-review column for that newspaper. He is a consulting editor and frequent contributor to Metro Eireann and contributes in addition to the Dublin Review, Sunday Business Post and other print and online publications.
An occasional broadcaster, he is presently compiling a book and radio series consisting of interviews on multiculturalism and the position of minority groups in Ireland.
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Biography to follow
M.A. H Dip in Ed.
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Grainne Crean teaches French on the BA Journalism with Language and BA Media Arts programmes. She has been teaching French literature, culture and media related subjects for the past 11 years and has been actively involved in the development of new programmes for the teaching of French at DIT. Her research interests include Francophone literature and culture with particular emphasis on Quebec and Algerian writing, social exclusion and issues of racial tension in France as well as the development of beur literature and culture.
She is a member of the Applied French Association as well as the Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland. She has presented papers on Francophone women writers and is director of Le Couche-Tard, a 4th year undergraduate publication.
Dip. Comm, BA, MA
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Richard Fitzsimons lectures on the BA Media Arts, MA Media Studies, MA Interactive Media and B.Sc. Communications (Journalism) presenting a range of courses in both Film Studies and Cultural Studies An RTE Research Fellow, he has published numerous articles on a wide range of media issues.
Richard's current research interests include the impact of postmodernism on documentary practice and issues relating to the changing perceptions of Irish national and cultural identity.
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Michael worked as a reporter at The Irish Times where he held a number of specialist positions, including Education Correspondent and Media Correspondent. He was educated at UCD, where he received a degree in History and Politics. He is currently engaged on research into the development of journalism in 19th century Ireland.
Along with working at the Irish Times he has long experience in radio broadcasting. He has contributed to the London Times and the Guardian and is on the international committee of the journal Index On Censorship, to which he is a regular contributor. He continues to write to the Irish Times on media and journalism issues. He also worked in Eastern and Central Europe and Palestine in journalism education and training and has been involved in developing professional practice and codes of conduct for journalists in Macedonia, Belarus and Ukraine and has taught media ethics in Croatia.
He has published widely on issues relating to journalism ethics. He is the vice chair of the NUJ's Ethics Council and also a member of the NUJ's Professional Training Committee.
MA, EdD
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Nora French has been Head of the Department of Communications since 1989. Her main responsibilities have been in the development and organisation of the B.Sc in Communications (Film and Broadcasting), and the B.Sc in Communications (Journalism): she has also had responsibility for the MA in Media Studies. Since January 2003, she has responsibility for the B.A. and MA degrees in journalism, the MA in PR and the MA in Media Studies.
Nora instigated links with academic associations such as the International Communications Association, the International Association for Media and Communications Research, and has been actively involved with the European Journalism Training Association. She set up Socrates programmes for staff and students in communications. She had responsibility for research students,for staff and technical resources until these were transferred to the School of Media in the late 1990s.
Nora is joint founding editor of Irish Communications Review. She is currently a member of the board of directors of ITE, the national centre for research in languages and language learning. She is a former member of the Governing Body of DCU and a former president of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics. Her current research interests are in professional media education and language and the media. She has completed a doctorate of education at the University of Sheffield.
BSc (Hons), Adv Dip. Communications
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Pat Hannon teaches Radio Production on the following programmes: MAJ
Journalism, MA International Journalism, BA Journalism and BA Media Arts.
He is completing an M.Phil on radio audiences and their daily use of radio set against a context of public service broadcasting.
He was a founder and board member of Eist - the Independent Broadcasters Association (2000 - 2008); Former board member of Learning Waves (2003 - 2005); Founder and former board member AIRPI - the Radio Producers Association (2005 - 2009). Former BCI Sound & Vision external panel member.
He continues to make radio documentaries and acts as a consultant, trainer and supervisory producer to other independent radio producers and the industry.
He was a producer with East Coast FM and night-time supervisory producer with Radio Ireland (Today FM).
Summary of free-lance radio production
2009 Radio feature RTE Radio 1 X 30-minutes 'Shoes'
2008 Radio documentary East Coast FM 2 x 45-minutes 'One Mile Long: Bray
Seafront Remembered'
2004 Location sound BBC Radio 3 'Thinking Earth' series
2003 Radio features East Coast FM 7 X 5-minutes, 'Focus on Stress'
2002 Road Safety ads National Safety Council/ National Roads Authority
2001 Road Safety ads Nationwide campaign. 6 x 2-minutes for National Safety Council/ National Roads Authority
2000 Road Safety Features, Various locals. 5 X 5-minutes
1995 Radio documentary RTE Radio 1. 45-minute. 'The True Adventures
of Blubberwoman'
Awards:
2002 Shortlisted for PPI/BCI award for radio documentary
2001 Winner of PPI/BCI Award
2001 Winner of Radio Advertising Award
2000 Shortlisted for Radio Advertising Award
MA
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Paul Irvine was a Producer/Director for 30 years with RTE, UTV, YTV, Thames TV etc. He has also successfully run his own production company and in addition to working in news, current affairs and features in broadcast television, he has also directed over 300 television commercials. He has been a part time lecturer in Dublin Institute of Technology for 21 years.
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Biography to follow
B.C.L., LL.M, B.L.
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Eavan Murphy holds a Bachelor of Civil Law and Masters of Law from University College Dublin. Her masters degree was by research, entitled "Medical Negligence in Ireland". While undertaking her masters, Eavan was Legal Correspondent of the Irish Medical News. She also holds the degree of Barrister-at-Law from the Honourable Society of the King's Inns. She has publishing a number of texts on business and company law and provided continuing professional education for accountants and other business groups. She joined DIT as a lecturer in Media Law, and teaches course on media and copyright law for students studying courses as diverse as Design for Digital Media, Internet Systems Development, Journalism and Photography.
Eavan was recently selected to prepare Ireland's report for the EU Commission on "The Evolution of New Advertising Techniques", as part of an EU study into the revision of the Television Without Frontiers Directive, to be published in 2002. Eavan's main research interests are interaction of law and popular culture, particularly the representation of law in cinema; media reporting of the courts, privacy, company law and employment law.
BSc (HONS), M.A, (D.C.U)
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Ite Ni Chionnaith has lectured at Dublin Institute of Technology since 1979 and was Chair of the BSc Communications (Journalism) from 1995 - 2001. Ite was editor of the Irish language monthly periodical Feasta (1979 -1980) and has been a guest lecturer on the intensive Irish language journalism course for Radio na Gaeltachta, Údaras na Gaeltachta and TG4.
Ite is a member of the European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages. She is a regular contributor to periodicals and newspapers including The Irish Times, Hibernia, Feasta, Comhar, Innu, Amarach, Anois, Rosc, Cnag, An Teachta etc.
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Sue Norton's teaching, research, and writing interests include creative non-fiction, rhetoric and composition, modern literature, applied English grammar, and English as a second language. Her essays have appeared in publications on both sides of the Atlantic and have been broadcast on Irish radio.
M.B.BS., B.A.A (Mod), C.G.L.I.
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Tom O'Connor's specialist areas are in urban sociology, development sociology and industrial sociology. He was a member of the Dept of Foreign Affairs National Committee for Development Education and of its Management Committee from its inception in 1994 to 1997.
Tom is a member of the Sociological Association of Ireland and the Irish Association for Industrial Relations. He was also Chair of the Solidarity Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, 1997-99.
B.A English and History; Masters in Development Studies; LLM in International Human Rights Law
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Barbara O’Shea worked in RTE radio and television for many years. As a radio producer she produced a wide variety of programmes. For the radio series Worlds Apart, she travelled and recorded material in Asia, Africa and South America on politics, development and human rights. She has worked in radio and video production in New York. Over the years she has worked with the United Nations and the European Union on elections in Cambodia, South Africa, Bosnia and the Palestinian Occupied Territories. Her book, Postcards from Elsewhere, documents the lives of people she met while working in developing countries. For Jesuit Refugee Services, she visited refugee camps in Tanzania and wrote a feasibility report on maintaining a radio station in refugee situations. She was also commissioned by the Transitional Justice Institute at the University of Ulster to research and write a report on women and the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement; this was launched at the Institute’s conference on women and conflict.
B.Soc.Sc. (UCD), M.Soc.Sc. (UCD)
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Stephen began lecturing in 1992, and has worked in the School of Media, DIT since 1997. Before that he taught on several different courses in UCD, Maynooth and DCU.
Stephen worked in post-production in BBC Television Centre, London from 1990 to 1992, successfully completing the Introduction to Television Operations and Qualification in Television Recordings training courses.
A recipient of an RTÉ Fellowship and a Government of Ireland Scholarship, his PhD research is on television news and current affairs political coverage. In 2005 he was one of eight shortlisted entrants in the inaugural Guardian/Fabian Society Ben Pimlott Prize for Political Writing, with an essay entitled 'Seán Russell, the Nazis and Irish republicanism today'.
Stephen's current teaching and research interests include: media history, censorship and propaganda, audience theory and research, cultural change and individualisation, and developments in Irish news values.
This page was last updated: 19th November 2009