Dr. James Cronin is educated as a cultural and intellectual historian, broadcast journalist, and educator. He graduated from University College Cork and UCLan, Preston, Lancashire. He served internships with BBC Radio Cumbria (Carlisle) and Rough Shore (RS) Productions, film and media (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne). James is a recipient of the UCC President's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2018 and twice recipient of the President's Award for Research on Innovative Forms of Teaching & Learning: first in 2004 for developing learning resources for the newly-established History of Art in UCC and again in 2018 for a learning community partnership between prison educators and University College Cork. James has taught in the School of History, University College Cork (1992-99); St. John’s Central College of Further Education, Cork (2001-02); Crawford College of Art; Design, Cork (2001-02) and History of Art, UCC (2001-10). He currently teaches in CIRTL, UCC (2012- ), Education Unit, Cork Prison (2017- ) and Adult Continuing Education, UCC (2002- ). James is an honorary research fellow in the Department of Information Studies, University College London. He reviews for the journals Teaching and Learning Inquiry and Global Intellectual History. He is on the editorial committee of a new journal Creative Research Methods. He is co-chair of ISS21's Crime and Social Harm (CSH) research cluster, UCC. He is a core committee member on the US-based Decoding (and Disrupting) the Disciplines committee and is a reviewer on the UK-based Independent Research Ethics Committee. He recently joined RTÉ’s Brainstorm academic expert team.

My seemingly various research interests ranging from emancipatory pedagogy to media to intellectual and cultural history can be summarised and distilled into five words: ethics and philosophy of attention. So what does “attention” mean to me? Well, it’s represented in my interest in “slow looking” in arts and education, it’s seeking to uncover “hidden histories” of the seemingly “voiceless” in order to qualify normative readings of history, and it’s thinking through the ethics of precarity. ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5661-793X Social Media: X BlueSky Linkedin

Teaching & Learning Programme co-director, Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education, CIRTL, UCC. Supervisor, Masters in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education, CIRTL, UCC.Co-ordinator and Lecturer, Graduate Studies module PG6012 in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education, CIRTL, UCC.Co-ordinator and Lecturer, Elective module TL6011 (Making Thinking Visible), CIRTL, UCC. Lecturer, International Visiting Scholars Programme, CIRTL, UCC.Visiting Lecturer, Education Unit, Cork Prison, Cork VEC and Irish Prisons Service.Lecturer, Facilitating Inclusion in the Arts for Adult Continuing Education, UCC.Guest Lecturer, International Summer School in Irish Studies, School of History, UCC. Supervised Research in Teaching & Learning Enhancement Dr. Kate Elizabeth Walker, (2024) “The Role of Learner-Generated Artworks in Nurturing Critical Skills in Human Rights” supervised by Dr. Anna Santucci with "critical friend" advisory input from Dr. James Cronin, CIRTL, for the degree of Master of Arts in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education. Dr. Beth Brint, (2023) "Does use of Anki Flashcards as a Study Tool Among First Year Graduate Entry to Medical Students improve knowledge retention and material engagement? supervised by Dr. James Cronin, CIRTL, for the degree of Master of Arts in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education. Dr. Uschi Linehan (2022) “Enhancing how a student analyses a German literature text using Microsoft Whiteboard as a scaffolding tool” supervised by James Cronin and Marian McCarthy, CIRTL, for the degree of Master of Arts in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education. Dr Philipp Hoevel (2022) “Critical friendship in teaching mathematics” co-supervised by James Cronin and Robert Butler, C