Daniel Blackshields

I have been a lecturer at the School of Economics in University College, Cork (UCC) http://www.ucc.ie/en/economics/ since 1999. I also teach and supervise on the certified programmes for CIRTL – the Centre for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning in UCC http://www.ucc.ie/en/teachlearn/cirtl/ In 2009 I received an MA in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education for my thesis on the use of the Teaching for Understanding Framework and Sherlock Holmes narratives as a teaching tool for developing problem-solving, metacognitive skills, Arts-based Initiatives, reflection and integrative for Economics and business students, lecturers and business. This work was published in Innovative Business School Teaching (Routledge, 2013). I have presented nationally and internationally on teaching for understanding, integrative learning and creativity. I was nominated by the Vice-President for Teaching and Learning for UCC for a National Academy for the Integration of Research into Teaching and Learning (NAIRTL) National Excellence in Teaching Award in 2009 and won the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and President’s Award for Research on Innovative Forms of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 2011/2012. I was appointed as the UCC Teaching Fellow for Reflective Practice in 2012 and was nominated for a UCC Staff Recognition Award: Enhancing the Student Experience in 2014. I am a member of the NAIRTL-funded Irish Integrative Learning Project. This project was nominated for a NAIRTL National Excellence in Teaching Award in 2010. In 2011 we published a book entitled: Making Connections: Intentional Teaching for Integrative Learning and I am the senior editor of the recently published Routledge publication entitled: Integrative Learning: International Research and Practice (2014). In 2015 I was appointed to the expert panel of the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Ireland.I am currently the Examinations Appeals

My current research interests are in exploring the teaching of economics, entrepreneurship, cognition and creativity and economics and the Arts. I am currently furthering the teaching of economics through reflective practice, integrative learning and mental development.

I have experience teaching at postgraduate level. I have taught Case Research Methods and teach Forecasting and Scenario Planning to the MBS (Business Economics). I am the Programme Director for and teach on the Higher Diploma in Economics (Competition, Governance and Society). I have also taught on the MA (European Development) and (Coastal Management) developed by the Department of Geography, scaffolding non-economists in researching with case studies. At undergraduate level I have had experience teaching modules in 2nd and 3rd year (BA, BA (LCS), BA (Euro Studies), BA (D&TS), BA (Mus). I am the programme director for Economics for the BCom (Inter)and BA (LCS). I have taught  on  the Evening Arts programme. I have taught on the 1st year BSCA programme, 3rd Year B.Comm programme and 4th year B.Comm module: Industry Structure and Competition.  The course outline and coursepack that I developed for this module was accepted into the Syllabus Project of the Ludwig Von Mises Institute.  I have been developing modules that encapsulate ideas in Teaching for Understanding, Integrative Learning, Reflective Learning, the Personal Development and Bloom¿s Taxonomy (Bloom, 1956) Kennedy (2007). Examples of this developing approach to my scholarship of teaching include:  1) Developing Reflective Journals as part of my assessment approach. My developing expertise in this pedagogical approach has been recognised by the Irish Integrative Learning Project. I have further been invited to develop and present a series of workshops on reflective practice for BSCF placement student