Emmanuelle Schon-Quinlivan

Dr Emmanuelle Schon-Quinlivan is a Senior Lecturer in European politics in the Department of Government, UCC, since 2001. In 2025, she was awarded another Jean Monnet Teacher Training grant focusing exclusively on active European citizenship education at the post-primary level. This came after she received a double award in 2021 with a Jean Monnet Chair in Active European Citizenship and one of only 20 EU-wide Jean Monnet Teacher Training grants. The focus of those projects will be to develop a continuum of education on Ireland and the EU from Junior Infants to 6th year. Emmanuelle is also the Director of the UCC Hub in Active European Citizenship - https://www.ucc.ie/en/government-and-politics/hub-in-active-european-citizenship/ . This Hub is the home for all the programmes and activities emerging from the Jean Monnet Chair and Teacher Training. It will also become the focus for interdisciplinary collaboration in European Studies. From 2017 to 2019, Emmanuelle led a Jean Monnet project entitled My Big Friendly Guide to the European Union and co-funded by the European Commission, Communicating Europe Initiative (DFA) and Cork City Council. It developed a pupil-centred, bottom-up programme of discussion, discovery and fun on the European Union's values, symbols, purpose and ambitions at primary school level. Based on critical pedagogy, it was co-constructed with pupils' and teachers' reflections, views and artefacts in order to generate understanding and ownership. You can follow the developments of this project on www.bfgtoeu.ie, https://www.facebook.com/HubEuropCitizen/ and on Twitter @HubEuropCitizen Bor

I currently focus on political socialisation on the European Union, civic education and deliberative pedagogies in primary school children. My primary research interests are in European politics, institutional change and public management.

Emmanuelle teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She is particularly interested in European politics and the interaction between the national and the supranational level.