Dublin Institute of Technology

This is Mountjoy Square, the place where my office in Dublin Institute of Technology is located. You can see that the college is part of a Georgian building. I'll post a copy of my office when I get it.

DIT is one of the 20 main publicly funded tertiary education institutions in the state--7 are university status and 13 are institutes of technology. According to the OECD report, "Higher Education in Ireland," DIT was established in 1978 via an amalgamation of six vocational colleges and is the largest institute. In 2001, DIT was accorded full degree awarding powers--for first, masters, and doctoral degrees). There is a push on to set up a state tertiary education system--currently the Higher Education Authority oversees the universities and the Department of Education and Science oversees the institutes. DIT has 11 locations throughout the city. The website for the college is http://www.dit.ie/

My research interest is to see how the strategic policies are influencing the formation of partnerships--I'll do a survey to first determine the range of partnerships and then do some case studies on some. I'm also interested in learning more of faculty work here and will figure out what I might do in that area too. The conversations with US faculty teaching here have been interesting and I'd love to hear more of those stories!