Professor Sheelagh Drudy of the UCD School of Education is to take up a Visiting Fellowship at Lucy Cavendish College at the University of Cambridge for the Lent and Easter Terms 2008, while she is on research leave from UCD. She will be admitted as a Visiting Fellow at a ceremony in Lucy Cavendish College, on Wednesday 30 January 2008 before the first Governing Body meeting of the Lent Term. Professor Drudy will work at international level with colleagues in Cambridge and elsewhere in the UK as well as at a European level with bodies such as the Education Working Group of the Tuning project – Tuning Educational Structures in Europe – and the Teacher Education in Europe (TEPE) Network. She is to give a keynote address at the international TEPE conference Teacher Education in Europe: mapping the landscape and looking to the future to be held in Ljubljana in February 2008. During her time in Cambridge Professor Drudy will also continue to direct research projects in Ireland in which she is involved and will supervise the research of her cohort of doctoral students. She will carry on her work with the Teaching Council and with other national bodies.
