Joe is from Dungarvan, Co. Waterford and is currently a full-time member of staff in the School of Education in University College Cork, Ireland. He is currently the Director of the Educational Leadership Post-Graduate Programme (PDEL). He is the module coordinator on all of the modules on this Level 9 programme. Mentoring & Coaching is a key module on the PDEL and is designed to develop professional skills for participating teachers/professionals allowing them to successfully contribute to school/organisational improvement in their own variety of contexts. Joe is also Programme and Academic Director of the PGD in Coaching in Education which is the first University accredited Caoching in Education programme in Ireland. The programme is a School of Education and ACE postgrad housed withing the SoE. In advance of setting up this programme, Joe completed a two year MSc in Personal & Management Coaching at UCC graduating with First Class Honours in 2022. Joe is also a lecturer/tutor in Initial Teacher Education (Professional Master of Education, PME) and writes and delivers modules on the Masters in Education (MEd) modular programme where he has developed a series of new and exciting Educational Leadership and Management modules to meet the significant demand for study in this area at UCC. He also supervises research students at Masters and PhD level at the university. Formerly, Joe was a teacher of French, Geography and Art, Craft and Design in post-primary education for 20 years. Having qualified as a Guidance Counsellor, this was followed by four years working in that role full-time prior to serving as a Deputy Principal and Principal in a large post-primary school for a further eight years. His research interests include educational leadership, educational coaching, professional coaching, socio-cultural learning, collaborative practice, work-based learning, intelligence studies and education in general. Joe served as an external examiner on the MA in Management in Education at SETU from 2018-2023. 

• Leadership preparation for current and aspiring school leaders.
• Initial Teacher Education.
• Coaching in Education
• Collaborative Practice in Educational Leadership
• Decision-making in Educational Leadership
• Educational Coaching
• Personal and Management Coaching