School of Education
Phone: 01 636 4278
Email: huntn@staff.ncad.ie
Phone: 01 636 4278
Email: huntn@staff.ncad.ie
As head of continuing education, my work has focused on the strategic development and reconfiguration of the Department of Continuing Education. I have planned and managed change within the department moving from a hobbyist non-accredited provision to offering an accredited pathway for adult learners. I have led teaching and learning initiatives across NCAD including major curriculum review at undergraduate level, teaching and learning workshops for staff, and produced curriculum design guidelines for staff. I have designed curricula at; sub-degree, degree and post-graduate levels. I have lectured on post-graduate graduate and MA programmes. Prior to coming to NCAD, I worked as a project coordinator at CREATE, as an accreditation advisor in the Youth and community sector (NYF), and previously for CDETB as an arts programme manager. I worked as a lecturer in art history part-time for many years.
My research interests include; flexible and part-time learning in Higher Education, participatory arts practice, further and adult education, assessment and arts education and how smart technologies may support innovative pedagogical practice.
Collaboration - Membership of Committees/ Networks/
External Examiner & Quality Review
Awards & Grants
Publications/Conferences
2023 ESAI Conference – Group paper Further education teaching and professional development
2022 ESAI Conference Paper presentation; title; Policy and FET qualifications in Ireland
2021 ECER International Conference Paper; Funding and Part-time higher education in Ireland
2020 ‘Student perspectives on integration in part-time, flexible Higher Education in Ireland; ‘We don’t socialise here’, Journal of Further and Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2020.1779677
2020 ECER International Conference Paper presentation (on-line); Part-time student’s perspectives on Irish Higher Education, https://eera-ecer.de/ecer-2020--glasgow
2020 ESAI-on-line: FET Symposium; Professional Identity within an evolving FET sector; Group paper presentation,
2019 ECER International Conference Paper, ‘Lecturers Perspectives on teaching part-time flexible students in Irish HE’
2018 ECER International Conference, Paper; ‘It hasn’t changed at all’ perspectives on part-time flexible policy in Irish HE,
2017 Book Chapter- Part-time and Flexible learning in Irish High Education in ‘Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education’ Fleming, Loxley, Finnegan, Palgrave MacMillan, DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56974-5
2017 ESAI Annual Conference UCC, Paper ‘Is now the time to re-think how to frame retention and persistence of part-time flexible students in Higher Education?
2016 Socially Engaged Art and Further Education: Guest Speaker, Model Arts Centre Sligo,
2016 Ed Tech Conference Dublin, Presentation; Digital Skills in Action NFTL funded Project,
2016 Hunt, N., O’Grady, M.J., Muldoon, C., Kroon, B., Rowlands, T., Wan, J., O’Hare, G.M.P. (2016). Citizen Science: A Learning Paradigm for the Smart City? Interaction Design and Architecture (s), (27), 44-65.2015,
2015 Poster ‘Part-time learning in Higher Education’ Institute of teacher education research seminar, Marino,
2015, Journal of the O’Neill Country Historical society, no.22, ‘Estate Management at Powerscourt 1847-1857,
2015 Article ‘Parameters, Practices and policies in the formation of teachers, artists and educators’ co-authored in Transactions 1, NCAD, www.transactionspublication.com
2013, NSEAD Conference, Art for Life, Paper; ‘Widening Participation in art and design HE’ at iJADE and NSEAD Conference,
2012, Book Chapter; ‘Mainstreaming and Margins in Art and Design Education’ in Art Education and Contemporary Culture, ed. Granville, Intellect, Bristol
2012, Academy and Community; The experience of a college programme in socially engaged practice, iJeta, ‘Special Issue’, vol.8
2012, AISHE, Reflecting on the Need for Problem Triggers in Multidisciplinary on PBL, O’Grady, Hunt, et al
2011, NQAI/IUA –Framework Implementation Network Report, RPL & NCAD,
2011 AISHE Journal; Paper Sense and Sensibility; collaborative and interdisciplinary problem design in PBL; Barrett et al
2010, AISHE, International Conference DCU, Paper and Poster,*
2010, NCAD Guidelines for Programme Development, Teaching + Learning Resource for lecturers,
2010, UCD, Guest lecture, Teaching and Learning Centre,
2009 IUQB Conference, ‘Striving to Enhance the student experience’ Case study Presentation and Poster,
2009, NQAI/IUA, Report, Framework Implementation Network and IUA
2007, Independent panel member: Awarding excellence in teaching to academic staff at UCD,
2006, UCC, IUQB-Conference Presentation on Learning Outcomes in Art and Design,
2005 Circa Art Magazine – Art/People; Vox Pop, How do the arts extend education beyond the expected institutions of school and family?
2004, Visual Arts in Youth work, conference proceedings, Presentation on NCADs’ response to communities, Irish Youth-work Press, ISBN 9781 900416658
2003 Provision and Intervention, Contexts: Arts and Practice in Ireland, vol.2. Iss.4,