History

Contact Details

Title	Learning Resources Officer
Address	History University College Cork Cork Ireland
Telephone:	+353-21-490-3000
Fax:	00353-21-4904702
Email:	ei.ccu@ninorC.J

Biography:

James G. R. Cronin MA, MATLHE (NUI, Cork); PDBJ (UCLan, Preston); Teaching & Learning Fellow (NUI, Cork).   



I currently contribute to the development of the School of History's postgraduate tutor (teaching assistant) education programme and to the work of the School of History's Learning and Teaching Committee. 

 

I am also part-time Programme Co-ordinator for the European Art History Certificate and Diploma programmes, Adult and Continuing Education (ACE), University College Cork. European Art History at ACE has been an incubation space for the discipline of History of Art, which began at University College Cork in 2001, and for visual studies becoming incorporated into clinical practice education at the School of Medicine, University College Cork. Currently, it is an incubation space for postgraduates learning to teach within graduate studies. The European Art History programme has received a President's Award for Research on Innovative Forms of Teaching and Learning (2003/04). Currently, I am actively involved in the facilitation of outreach cultural history programmes in partnership with Cork City Library. 



Before joining the School of History, in March 2011, I was inaugural Visual Resources Officer in History of Art, University College Cork (2001-11). I received a Quality Improvement Fund Award in 2004 for my work with History of Art. As Visual Resources Officer, I co-ordinated the audio-visual support and recorded four international conferences for History of Art: Visual Literacy; W.G. Sebald; the Representation of Pain and Theories of Modernism & Post Modernism in the Visual Arts and the round-table discussions for the seven-volume Art Seminar series edited by James Elkins (co-published by Routledge & Cork University Press, 2006/08).

I am a graduate of University College Cork, where I read History and English and where I pursued postgraduate studies initially in History (medieval iconography) and most recently in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in higher education. I  trained as an NUJ accredited broadcast journalist in the award-winning School of Journalism and Communications, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), Preston. I served internships with BBC Radio Cumbria in Carlisle and RS (formerly Rough Shore) Productions, an independent documentary maker, in Tyneside. I have taught with the International School of Choueifat in Wiltshire and with the Vocational Education Committee in Cork.