One of our Directors—Rosaria Kunda Marron—was recently awarded a prestigious 2019 Graduate Fellowship by the Global Education Deans Forum (GEDF), and will travel to Shanghai to represent Dublin City University (DCU) this October. She will also present her PhD research to a gathering of Deans of Education from across the world.
GEDF is a global network of deans/directors of leading research-intensive schools/colleges of education. It was launched in 2018 at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China. Founding members include deans from over 30 institutions from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. The Fellowship is awarded to five outstanding research students across the globe.
This year, GEDF will focus intensively on the impact of new technology on all facets of education systems. The selected fellows for 2019 will convene in order to study the issue deeply and develop draft synthesis reports under selected themes, which will be issued by GEDF and published in the ECNU Review of Education, an English-medium journal published by Sage.
“The significance of being awarded the GEDF is that it provides an opportunity for myself and Dublin City University to be part of a global team that will collaborate on a piece of research that links academic research in the field of technology in education with education policy and practice.”
Rosaria Kunda Marron
“The fellowship allows the various universities in the forum to strengthen collaboration through a joint research project that the selected fellows will work on,” added Rosaria.
“We think education researchers play an important role in ensuring that education research becomes assistive and developmental as well as academic,” commented Rosaria’s thesis supervisor Prof Gerry McNamara, School of Policy and Practice.