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Mr James G R Cronin

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Mr James G R Cronin

Honours and Awards
Year: 2012.

Title: Vice President for Teaching and Learning, UCC. Teaching Fellowship in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Year: 2011.

Title: Teaching and Learning As a Systemic Process in Lifelong Learning (European Commission - Education & Training - lifelong learning programme, Grundtvig)
Year: 2011.

Title: Historical Geography Research Group for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference (registration)
Year: 2011.

Title: School of History/ College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, Research Fund (research support)
Year: 2011.

Title: School of History/ College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, Research Fund (conference support)
Year: 2009.

Title: Promoting a research culture in the undergraduate curriculum
Year: 2008.

Title: Making Connections: Strengthening and Documenting Intentional Teaching for Integrative Learning
Year: 2006.

Title: Quality Improvement Award for the Honan Chapel & Collection online
Year: 2004.

Title: President's Award for Research on Innovative Forms of Teaching and Learning
Year: 2004.

Title: Quality Improvement Fund Award
Year: 2003.

Title: President's Award for Research on Innovative Forms of Teaching and Learning
Year: 1990.

Title: Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University College Cork, College Scholar

Associations
Association: International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL), Function/Role: Peer Reviewer
Association: DRHA: Digital Resources for the Humanities and the Arts, Function/Role: Peer Reviewer
Association: Aontas: Irish National Association of Adult Education, Function/Role: Local Representative (University College Cork)
     

Conference Contributions
Cronin, J. with Marian McCarthy, Bettie Higgs, Jacinta McKeon (2012) Mentoring the ethical steward. [Chair Sessions at Symposia], Mentoring the ethical steward: how may a SoTL approach help faculty to foster habits of ethical stewardship in the formation of junior faculty members? (University College Cork), ISSOTL, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, 2012 , 23-OCT-12 - 23-NOV-12.
Cronin, J. with Daniel Blackshields, Anthony Ryan (2012) Building Capacity for Transformative Learning: Embedding Integrative Learning into Threshold Concept Pedagogical Design. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], National Academy's 6th Annual Conference and the 4th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference, University of Dublin, Trinity College , 27-JUN-12 - 29-JUL-12.
Cronin, J. (2012) 'Doing history': what may liminal space and transition time expose during a process of mentoring postgraduate tutors in the discipline of history?. [Oral Presentation], The National Academy's 6th Annual Conference and the 4th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference, University of Dublin, Trinity College , 27-JUN-12 - 29-JUL-12.
Cronin, J. with Jacinta McKeon, Bettie Higgs and Marian McCarthy (2011) In-at-the-deep-end:graduate teaching assistants providing role models for Faculty. [Oral Presentation], Transforming the Academy through the Theory and Practice of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Milwaukee, U.S.A , 20-OCT-11 - 22-OCT-11.
Cronin, J with Bettie Higgs, Marian McCarthy, Jacinta McKeon (2011) In-at-the-Deep-End: Postgraduate Students as Role Models in the University. [Oral Presentation], Engaging Minds. Annual Conference of National Academy for the Integration of Reseach and Teaching and Learning, NUI Galway, Galway , 10-JUN-11 - 10-JUN-11.
Cronin, J. with Bettie Higgs, Marian McCarthy, Jacinta McKeon (2011) In-at-the-deep-end: graduate teaching assistants as role models in the university. [Oral Presentation], International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee , 18-OCT-11 - 25-NOV-11.
Cronin, J with Daniel Blackshields and Julianne Nyhan (2010) Integrative learning and technoculture: what's at stake?. [Oral Presentation], NAIRTL /LIN Annual Conference: Flexible Learning, Royal College of Surgeons , 06-OCT-10 - 07-OCT-10.
Cronin, J with Daniel Blackshields, Bettie Higgs, Carmal Halton (2010) Ionad Bairre Teaching and Learning Seminar. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Assessment of Reflective Portfolios and Journals, Council Room UCC , 19-NOV-10 - 19-NOV-10.
Cronin, J. (2011) Different stories to be lived and told: recovering L. James Oppenheimer for the history of the Irish Arts and Crafts movement (1894-1925). [Invited Oral Presentation], Hidden Histories: Symposium in humanities computing, 1949-1980, University College London , 17-SEP-11 - 17-SEP-11.
Cronin, James G. R. ; (2011) The role of social media in historical recovery. [Oral Presentation], Digital Cultures, University College Cork , 29-SEP-11 - 30-SEP-11.
Cronin, James G.R. ; (2011) Masters of those Seas: Strategy and space in George Anson's A Voyage Round the World in the Years 1740 ... 1744. [Oral Presentation], Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers Annual International Conference, Royal Geographical Society, London and Imperial College London , 31-AUG-11 - 02-SEP-11.
Cronin, J with Bettie Higgs, Marian McCarthy, Jacinta McKeon (2011) In-at-the-deep-end: graduate teaching assistants as role models in the university. [Oral Presentation], Engaging Minds: Active learning, participation and collaboration in Higher education. NAIRTL 5th Annual Conference and Galway Symposium on Higher Education, University College Galway , 08-JUN-11 - 10-JUN-11.
Cronin, James G.R.; (2011) E-learning and the lifelong learner: Challenging common assumptions. [Oral Presentation], Grundtvig European Learning Partnership on Educational Access and Ageing: e-learning, VUC, Fyn, Denmark , 27-APR-11 - 30-APR-11.
Cronin, J with Daniel Blackshields and Julianne Nyhan (2010) Integrative learning and technoculture: what's at stake?. [Invited Oral Presentation], LIN/NAIRTL Flexible Learning conference, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin , 06-OCT-10 - 06-OCT-10.
Cronin, James G.R. (2010) 'Masters of those seas': Strategy and space in George Anson's A Voyage Round the World in the Years 1740. . .1744. [Oral Presentation], Ordnance: War + Architecture & Space, 16-18 September 2010, co-hosted by Department of Geography, University College Cork and Cork Centre for Architectural Education (CCAE), University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology , 18-SEP-10 - 18-SEP-10.
Cronin, J with Daniel Blackshields, Bettie Higgs, Shane Kilcommins, marian McCarthy, Walter O'Leary, Anthony Ryan (2010) Integrative learning in practice: Irish Integrative Learning Project. [Invited Oral Presentation], International Integrative Learning Symposium. Centre for Integrative Learning, University of Nottingham, University of Nottingham , 11-MAR-10 - 11-MAR-10.
Cronin, James G.R. ; (2009) Too much information: why facilitate media literacy?. [Invited Oral Presentation], Digital Resources for the Humanities & Arts - Dynamic Networks of Knowledge and Practice: Contexts, Crises, Futures, 7 - 9 September 2009, Queens University Belfast , 07-SEP-09 - 09-SEP-09.
Cronin, James G.R. ; (2008) Uncovering understanding: lifelong learners' experiences of e-moderation. [Invited Oral Presentation], Digital Resources for the Humanities and the Arts (DRHA) conference. New communities of knowledge and practice, Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge, UK , 14-SEP-08 - 16-SEP-08.
Cronin, James G.R.; Doolan, D.; Dai, X. ; (2006) Building a virtual exhibition: The Honan Collection Online. [Invited Oral Presentation], Digitising Ethnography Symposium, University College Cork , 14-JUN-06 - 14-JUN-06.
Cronin, James G.R.; (2005) Joining the digital dots: promoting resource integration and autodidactic learning in teaching art history to adult learners. [Invited Oral Presentation], Forum for the Advancement of Continuing Education Conference (FACE), Towards a global understanding of lifelong learning: making a difference, University College Cork , 06-JUL-05 - 08-JUL-05.
Cronin, J; (1994) The evangelist symbols as pictorial exegesis. [Invited Oral Presentation], The third international conference on Insular art, Ulster Museum, Belfast , 06-APR-94 - 08-APR-94.

Committees
Committee : College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, University College Cork, Teaching and Learning Committee

From:18-APR-12     To: 18-APR-13
Committee : Learning & Teaching Committee, School of History (2011 to present)

From:01-NOV-11     To:
Committee : Support for Teaching & Learning Group, University College Cork (2010 to present)

From:01-OCT-10     To: 01-OCT-11
Committee : DRHA (Digital Resources in the Humanities & the Arts), United Kingdom (2009 to present)

From:22-SEP-08     To: 30-DEC-99
Committee : AONTAS (National Adult Learning Organisation) (2007 to present)

From:01-FEB-07     To: 30-DEC-99
Committee : Disability Support Liaison, History of Art (2005-11)

From:01-FEB-06     To: 01-FEB-11
Committee : Administrative Grading Committee, University College Cork (2006-08)

From:17-MAY-06     To: 17-NOV-08
Committee : Visual Arts Committee, University College Cork (2006-08)

From:01-FEB-04     To: 01-OCT-06
Committee : Steering Committee for the Diploma in European Art History, Adult Continuing Education (2002-09)

From:01-OCT-02     To: 30-DEC-99
       

Outreach Activities

James currently lectures on cultural history in the Cork City Public Library for Centre for Adult Continuing Education, University College Cork.

Contributed guest lectures to the Cork Scientific and Literary Society;

Contributed guest lectures to the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society;

Contributed to the educational programme, Glucksman Gallery, Cork;

Contributed talks and tours to the International Summer School in Irish Studies, School of History, University College Cork;    

He has contributed guest lectures to the Friends of the Crawford Gallery, Cork;

Contributed a guest lecture to the Daniel Corkery International Summer School, Inchigeelagh, Co. Cork.

Reviews
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