EdD Student Profile
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Orna Ryan
 Email:
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Project Title: How do supranational processes (including European integration and the work of the OECD) and policy making affect UCD's institutional dynamics and policy production, specifically in relation to modularisation?
Supervisors:
Professor
Lindsay Paterson
Research topic:
This research investigates the
forces shaping policymaking and the governance of Irish higher educational
policy, by analysing the modular policy at UCD. The construction of this
modularisation policy is explored using the concept of social capital and
policy networks to explain global forces and why some practices and policies
remain national and localized. The introduction
of a modular policy to UCD is of interest in reviewing the local/national/global
policy dynamic and is an example of an EU meta-policy which was locally implemented.
The rise of the 'European education space' or 'European learning space' signifies
changes in trans-national governance which has altered the roles of national
system policy actors regarding governance and policy. Modularisation is used
as a focus here to explore the changing nature of governance in higher education,
the actors influencing and contributing to this policy and the relationship
between them.
Professional experience:
After
a career in the field of Human Resources Management,
Orna joined University College Dublin in 2002.
Currently, Orna is the Learning Support Officer
for the part-time postgraduate and undergraduate
programmes at UCD School of Business. She also
teaches Human Resource Management, Business Competencies
and Research Methods at undergraduate and postgraduate
level at UCD.
Publications:
 List
of Orna's Publications
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