Dr Deirdre Raftery MA MA PhD
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Biography:
| Dr Deirdre Raftery has recently returned from the University of Notre Dame, where she received a Hibernian Research Award, for her current research on the history of Irish missionary orders and international education. Dr Raftery has also recently received a Ireland-Canada University Foundation Award, for archival research in Toronto in summer 2012, and she has also received a 2012 SCoTENS award. An international expert in her field, she has published many books and papers in the field of history of education, and education ideas. She routinely advises and consults on the education records of schools, colleges and convents, and she has given guest lectures and undertaken research in many parts of Europe, North America, South East Asia and South Africa. She was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, in 2010, and she was Visiting Research Associate at Girton College, Cambridge in 2005. She is a Life Member of Girton College, Cambridge. She has been external examiner / examiner of doctoral research at several universities. Dr Raftery's books include Women and Learning in English Writing, 1600-1900 (1997), and (jointly) Female Education in Ireland, 1700-1900: Minerva or Madonna? (2007) and Choosing a School: Second Level Education in Ireland (2007). Her book Emily Davies, Collected Letters, 1861-1875 (with A.B. Murphy; University of Virginia Press/University of Chicago Press, 2006) received the highly prestigious MLA Approved Edition award. Her examination of reading for children in Ireland in the long eighteenth century has was published by Ashgate UK (2009), and her latest book, Gender Balance and Gender Bias in Education: International Perspectives (jointly with Maryann Valiulis FTCD) has recently been published by Routledge (London and NY). Recently published (2012) work includes invited chapters for new books from Routledge and for Palgrave Macmillan, and articles in Paedagogica Historica, the Journal of Women's History (USA), History of Education (Routledge T & F), and Studies. Deirdre Raftery is joint Editor of History of Education (Routledge Taylor Francis), and a member of the Executive Committee of the History of Education Society (UK). She is a member of many learned societies and academic committees and boards, including the Gender Working Group of the International Standing Conference of the History of Education, and she has been education consultant on several EU funded projects. At UCD Dr Deirdre Raftery supervises the research of several PhD students, some of whom have already published their work and have received grants from the IRCHSS and the NUI (Mary L. Thornton Award). Dr Raftery was appointed Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford in 2010, where she worked on new research for her history of Irish missionary nuns in education. In 2012 she convened the annual conference of the H-WRBI, at UCD, and she is on the co-ordinating committee for ISCHE London. She has given many keynote addresses, most recently at the University of Zurich in September, and will give a guest seminar at the University of Oxford in November 2012. |
Research Interests
| Dr Deirdre Raftery is an international expert in the field of History of Education. She has published many books and research papers, and has given guest lectures and presentations on her work at international conferences throughout Europe and North America. Her work utilises and develops histories and archives, with particular reference to those of schools, colleges and religious houses (convents). She also works on practice-based learning, in different professional contexts.
The contribution of religious orders to schooling internationally in nineteenth and twentieth century Gender and education Image based research
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Research Projects
| Sponsor : Dept. of Education & Science (DES) Title : Gender perspectives in the Delivery and assessment of Junior Cycle History Start Date / End Date : 01-JAN-03 / 31-DEC-04 |
| Sponsor : University College Dublin (UCD) Title : Schooling in Ireland: A Visual History (Book and CDRom) Start Date / End Date : 01-APR-01 / 31-MAR-03 |
Recent Postgraduates
| Recent and Current PhD Students |
Current Postgraduate Students
| Sarah Fahy Hillas, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Thesis Supervisor |
| Christine Lennon, Master of Literature (MLitt) - Thesis Supervisor |
Books
Deirdre Raftery and Maryann Valiulis; (2011) Gender Balance and Gender Bias in Education: International Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge.  [DOI] [Details] |
| D. Raftery, with S. M. Parkes; (2007) Female Education in Ireland, 1700-1900: Minerva or Madonna. Ontario, London and Dublin: Frank Cass/Irish Academic Press. [Details] |
| Raftery, D.(with A.B. Murphy).; (2003) Emily Davies: Collected Letters, 1861-1875. : University of Press of Virginia. [Details] |
| Deirdre Raftery and C KilBride; (2009) Infant Jesus Sisters 1reland, 1909-2009: The Voyage Out. Dublin: Infant Jesus Sisters Centenary Committee/Origin Ltd. [Details] |
| Raftery, D.; (1997) Women and Learning in English Writing, 1600-1900. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
| D. Raftery, with C. KilBride; (2007) Choosing a School: Second Level Education in Ireland. Cork: Mercier Press. [Details] | |||||||||
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Book Chapters
| Deirdre Raftery; (2009) 'The legacy of legislation and the pragmatice of policy: historical perspectives on schooling for Irish children' In: Education in Ireland: Challenge and Change. Ireland: Gill and Macmillan. [Details] |
| Deirdre Raftery and Martina Relihan; (2012) 'Faith and the Nation' In: Mass Education and the Limits of State Building, 1870-1930. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details] |
| Raftery, Deirdre; (2011) 'History of Education' In: Routledge Companion to Education. UK: Routledge. [Details] |
| Deirdre Raftery and Maryann Valiulis; (2011) 'Gender Balance/Gender Bias: Issues for Researchers' In: Gender Balance and Gender Bias in Education: International Perspectives. UK: Routledge. [Details] |
| Deirdre Raftery; (2010) 'The pragmatics of policy and the legacy of legislation' In: Education in Ireland: Challenge and Change. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. [Details] |
| Deirdre Raftery; (2009) 'Colonizing the Mind: The Use of English Writers in the Education of the Irish Poor, c.1750-1850' In: Mary Hilton and Jill Shefrin (eds). Educating the Child in Enlightenment Britain: Beliefs, Cultures, Practices. UK and USA: Ashgate. [Details] | |||||||||
| Deirdre Raftery, Jane McDermid and Garreth Elwyn Jones; (2008) 'Social Change and Education in Ireland, Scotland and Wales: Historiography on Nineteenth-century Schooling' In: Joyce Goodman, Gary McCulloch and William Richardson (eds). Social Change in the History of British Education. Oxon., and New York: Taylor and Francis. [Details] | |||||||||
| D. Raftery; (2004) 'The Higher Education of Women in Ireland, 1860-1904' In: Susan M. Parkes (eds). A Danger to the Men: A History of Women at Trinity College Dublin. Dublin: Lilliput Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Raftery, D.; (2000) 'The nineteenth century governess: image and reality' In: in Bernadette Whelan (eds). Women and Work in Ireland, 1500-1930. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Raftery, D.; (1995) 'Frances Power Cobbe' In: in Mary Cullen and Maria Luddy (eds). Women, Power and Consciousness in Nineteenth Century Ireland. Dublin: Attic Press/Cork University Press. [Details] | |||||||||
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Edited Books
| Deirdre Raftery and Maryann Valiulis (Ed.). (2011) Gender Balance and Gender Bias in Education: International Perspectives. London: Routledge. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Deirdre Raftery (2012) ''Among School Children': the churches, politics, and Irish schooling, 1830-1930'. Studies, . [Details] |
| Deirdre Raftery; (2012) 'Religions and the history of education: a historiography'. History of Education, 41 (1):41-56. [DOI] [Details] |
| Deirdre Raftery; (2012) 'L'espirit n'a point de sexe: women and learning in Western thought'. Journal of Women's History, 24 (2). [Details] |
| Deirdre Raftery and David Crook; (2012) 'Forty Years of History of Education'. History of Education, 41 (1):5-7. [DOI] [Details] |
| Deirdre Raftery; (2012) 'The 'mission' of nuns in female education in Ireland, c. 1850-1950'. Paedagogica Historica, 48 (2). [Details] |
| Deirdre Raftery and David Crook; (2009) 'Editorial'. History of Education, 36 (1). [Details] | |||||||||
| Deirdre Raftery and Maryann Valiulis; (2008) 'Gender balance/gender bias: issues in education research'. Gender and Education, 20 (4). [Details] | |||||||||
| Raftery,D., McDermid, J., Jones, G.; (2007) 'Social Change and Education in Ireland, Scotland and Wales: Historiography on Nineteenth Century Schooling'. History of Education, 36 (4). [Details] | |||||||||
| Raftery, D. & Roebuck, C.; (2007) 'Convent Schools and National education in nineteenth century Ireland: negotiating a place within a non-denominational system'. History of Education, 36 (3). [Details] | |||||||||
| Deirdre Raftery, Judith Harford and Susan M Parkes; (2010) 'Mapping the terrain of female educatuion in Ireland, 1830-1910'. Gender and Education, 22 (5):565-578. [DOI] [Details] |
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| D. Raftery, With M. Valiulis, J. Redmond & J. Harford; (2006) 'Imperfect tools: the role of textbooks in providing a gender balanced curriculum'. International Journal of Learning, 12 . [Details] | |||||||||
| Raftery, D.; (2002) 'The opening of higher education to women in England: unexpected revolution or inevitable change?'. Higher Education Quarterly, 56 (4). [Details] | |||||||||
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Conference Publications
| D. Raftery; (1995) Ideological differences in the first formal programmes of education for Catholic and Protestant women in Ireland Proceedings of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education Montreal, [Details] |
Published Reports
| Raftery, D., Valiulis, M., Harford, J., Redmond, J., and Creegan, C.; (2004) Gender Perspectives on the Delivery and Assessment of Junior Cycle History. Gender Equality Unit, Dublin. [Details] |
Reports
| Sugrue, C, Morgan, M, Devine, D and Raftery, D; (2001) Policy and Practice of Professional Development for Primary and Post-Primary Teachers in Ireland: A critical analysis. Commissioned Report by the Research and Development Committee, Department of Education and Science. Reports [Details] |
| D. Raftery; (2004) Gender Perspectives and the Delivery & Assessment of Junior Cycle History. Ireland: Reports [Details] |
Associations
| Association: H-WRBI, Function/Role: Irish Representative to the Executive Committee |
| Association: International Standing Conference in History of Education, Function/Role: Gender Working Group |
| Association: History of Education Society (UK), Function/Role: Member |
| Association: North American Association for Irish Studies, Function/Role: Member, contribution to annual conference |
| Association: British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Function/Role: Contibution to conferences |
| Association: North American Modern Language Assocation, Function/Role: Member; contribution to annual conference | |||||||||
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Conference Contributions
| Deirdre Raftery (2012) Invited lecture. [Invited Oral Presentation], University of Oxford Seminar Series: Women at Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford , 01-NOV-12 - 01-NOV-12. |
| Deirdre Raftery; (2011) International gathering of invited experts in the history of education. [Keynote Address], Education and the State, University of Zurich, Switzerland , 13-SEP-11 - 16-SEP-11. |
| Deirdre Raftery; (2010) Conference paper on the history of vocations to missionary orders in Ireland. [Chaired Session], Female religious on the British Isles: Interactions with the Continent: Annual Conference of KADOC/H-WRBI, Louvain Institute for Ireland in Europe , 01-SEP-10 - 04-SEP-10. |
| Deirdre Raftery; (2010) Growing vocations: education and formation at convent schools and novitiates, 1890-1950. [Chaired Session], History of Education Annual Conference UK, University of London , 26-NOV-10 - 28-NOV-10. |
| Deirdre Raftery; (2009) From Kerry to Katong: the mission imperative at Drishane convent school, 1910-1950. [Chaired Session], International Standing Conference of the History of Education: The History of Popular Education, University of Utrecht , 26-AUG-09 - 29-AUG-09. |
| Deirdre Raftery; (2009) An examination of the transmission of culture between Ireland and South East Asia via missionary schooling. [Chaired Session], History of Education Annual Conference UK, University of Sheffield , 27-NOV-09 - 29-NOV-09. | |||||||||
| Deirdre Raftery; (2007) The Irish university question and the Catholic women¿s colleges, 1870-1910. [Chaired Session], Beyond the Lecture Hall: Cambridge University 400th Anniversary Conference, Cambridge University : Homerton College , 05-SEP-07 - 07-SEP-07. | |||||||||
| Deirdre Raftery; (2007) Re-constitution of the Gender Working Group; appointed Irish representative. [Other], International Standing Conference of the History of Education, Hamburg , 25-JUL-07 - 28-JUL-07. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D., Harford, J., and Parkes, S; (2007) Educating Irish Girls: Issues of Class and Denomination, 1800'1900. [International Refereed Conference], Gender and Education annual conference, * , 01-MAR-07. | |||||||||
| Deirdre Raftery and Martina Relihan; (2006) Lessons on Life: Social Order, Welfare and Control in Irish School Textbooks, 1831-1935. [International Refereed Conference], History of Education, London , 08-DEC-06 - 10-DEC-06. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D. and Harford, J.; (2005) Excisions, Decisions: Records of Women Religious in Teaching in Ireland, 1800-2005. [International Refereed Conference], Gendering Education in the Archives Conference, Bedford Centre for the History of Women, Royal Holloway, University of London , 01-JUN-05. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D. and Harford, J.; (2005) 'Remembering Women Religious: The Work of Nuns in Teaching in Ireland, 1800-1950. [National Refereed Conference Paper], Gender and Memory Conference, University of Limerick , 01-JUN-05. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D., Valiulis, M., Harford, J. and Redmond, J.,; (2005) A Gender-Balanced Curriculum: The Challenge for Teacher Educators. [International Refereed Conference], Twelfth International Learning Conference, University of Granada , 01-JUL-05. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D., Valiulis, M. Harford, J. and Redmond, J.; (2005) What's Coming Up in the Exam?' A National Study of Teachers and the Delivery of a Gender-Balanced Curriculum. [National Refereed Conference Paper], Educational Studies Association of Ireland annual conference, * , 01-APR-05. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D., Valiulis, M., Harford, J. and Redmond, J.; (2005) Who is Sidelined in History?: Schooling and the Curriculum of a Gendered Curriculum. [National Refereed Conference Paper], Gender and Memory conference, University of Limerick , 01-JUN-05. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D., Valiulis, M., Harford, J. and Redmond, J.; (2005) Writing Women out of History/Writing Women into History. [International Refereed Conference], Gendering Education in the Archives Conference, Bedford Centre for the History of Women, Royal Holloway, University of London , 01-JUN-05. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D., Harford, J., Valiulis and Redmond; (2005) Paper title: 'Promoting Gender Awareness among Practising Teachers: Issues in Continuous Professional Development'. [International Refereed Conference], European Educational Research Assocation Annual Conference, Dublin , 07-SEP-05 - 10-SEP-05. | |||||||||
| Deirdre Raftery and Ann B Murphy (USA); (2004) A study of nineteenth century female education networks in England and Ireland. [Chaired Session], History of Education Annual Conference, University of Birmingham , 02-DEC-04 - 05-DEC-04. | |||||||||
| Raftery D., Valiulis, M., Harford, J. and Redmond, J.; (2004) Gender Perspectives in the Delivery and Assessment of Junior Cycle History. [Oral Presentation], Presentation to the History Teacher's Association of Ireland annual conference, * , 01-SEP-04. | |||||||||
| Raftery D., Valiulis, M. Harford, J. and Redmond, J.; (2004) Towards an Inclusive History Curriculum: A National Study of Gender Perspectives in Content, Delivery and Assessment in Ireland. [International Refereed Conference], European Educational Research Association annual conference, * , 01-SEP-04. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D.; (2006) 'Among school children: A visual history of educational change in Ireland over 150 years'. [N/A], North American Association of Irish Studies, University of Connecticut, USA , 01-DEC-06 - 05-DEC-06. | |||||||||
| D. Raftery, With M. Valiulis, J. Redmond, and J. Harford; (2004) Towards an inclusive History Curriculum: A National study of gender perspectives in content, delivery & assessment in Ireland. [International Refereed Conference], European Education Research Association, Crete, Greece , 01-JAN-04. | |||||||||
| D. Raftery, with M. Valiulis, J. Redmond and J. Harford; (2005) The Power of Gender and the Difficulty with Difference: Irish Teachers' Views on a Gender-Balanced History Curriculum'. [International Refereed Conference], Gender and Education Fifth Annual Conference, Cardiff , 01-MAR-05. | |||||||||
| D. Raftery, With A. Berewa and C. KilBride; (2005) Lay leadership in schools of religious foundation in Ireland: handing over the keys without handing over the files as well. [National Refereed Conference Paper], Education Studies Association of Ireland, University College Cork , 01-MAR-05. | |||||||||
| D. Raftery, With M. Valiulis, J. Harford & J. Redmond; (2005) 'What's coming up in the exam?': a national study of teachers and the delivery of a gender-balanced history curriculum. [National Refereed Conference Paper], Education Studies Association of Ireland, University College Cork , 01-MAR-05. | |||||||||
| D. Raftery; (2005) The role of education in economic development, social change and national identity since 1800. [Invited Oral Presentation], ESRC funded seminar, Department of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of Essex , 01-FEB-05. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D., Valiulis, M., Redmond, J. and Harford, J.; (2005) Standard Deviations? Interrogating the Education and Practice of Student Teachers'. [International Refereed Conference], Association of Teacher Educators in Europe Annual Conference, Amsterdam , 22-OCT-05 - 26-OCT-05. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D., Valiulus, M., Harford, J. and Redmond, J.; (2005) Promoting Gender Awareness among Practising Teachers: Issues in Continuous Professional Development'. [International Refereed Conference], European Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Dublin , 07-SEP-05 - 10-SEP-05. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D.; (2006) Reading the image and hearing the voice: using technologies to record and interpret the role of Catholic Teaching Orders in education and literacy formation. [International Refereed Conference], International Conference of the History of Education, Umea, Sweden , 16-AUG-06 - 20-AUG-06. | |||||||||
| Valiulis, M., Raftery, D., Harford, J. & Redmond, J.; (2005) A gender-balanced curriculum: the challenge for teacher educators. [International Refereed Conference], International Conference on Learning, Granada, Spain , 01-JUL-05. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D.; (2005) Excisions, decisions: records of women religious in teaching in Ireland, 1800-2000. [Invited Lecture], Gendering Education in the Archives Conference, Royal Holloway, London , 01-JUN-05. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D. & KilBride, C.; (2005) Ideology, principles and worldviews on education: an examination of the lived experience of youths at Catholic schools in 21st century Ireland. [International Refereed Conference], International Confernce on Children's Spirituality, Malta , 01-JUL-05. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D.; (2005) The semiotics of design and problematics of portraiture in images of education in Ireland, 1800-1940. [International Refereed Conference], History of Education (UK) Annual Conference, Birmingham , 01-DEC-05 - 04-DEC-05. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D.; (2005) Strictures and vindications: eighteenth century English writers and the education of Irish children. [International Refereed Conference], British Conference of Eighteenth Century Education, Cambridge, UK , 01-SEP-05. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D. & KilBride, C.; (2005) Teachers' standards and human development policy in schools: an examination of challenges to the value of standards in the 21st century. [International Refereed Conference], Association of Teacher Educators in Europe, Amsterdam , 22-OCT-05 - 26-OCT-05. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D.; (1995) 'Ideological differences in the first formal programmes of education for Catholic and Protestant women in Ireland.'. [N/A], Proceedings of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education. Montreal, 1995, Montreal , 01-JAN-95. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D.; (2003) The provision of pauper schooling in late 18th century Ireland: image and reality. [N/A], British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Conference, St Hughs College, Oxford, January 2003, Oxford , 01-JAN-03. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D.; (2003) Irish Children at School, 1800-1900. [N/A], Modern Language Association, Boston, March 2003, Boston , 01-MAR-03. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D.; (2001) 'The Archaeology of Autobiography: Meaning, Identity and Victorian Sources.'. [N/A], North American Modern Language Association, Connecticut, 2001, Connecticut , 01-JAN-01. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D.; (2001) 'The development of college education for women in mid-Victorian England.'. [N/A], Locating the Victorians International Conference, London, 2001, London , 01-JAN-01. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D.; (2001) 'Female education in English print culture: sources for the debate, 1600-1900.'. [N/A], International Society for Intellectual History. Trinity College Cambridge, 2001, Cambridge , 01-JAN-01. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D.; (2000) 'The academic formation of the fin-de-siecle female: the legacy of nineteenth century ideas for contemporary Ireland'. [N/A], Educational Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, NUI Maynooth, 2000, Maynooth , 01-JAN-00. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D.; (2005) 'Excisions, decisions: biography and the reconstruction of the self-edited life'. [N/A], Biographical Studies Society Inaugural Conference, University of Limerick, 1999, Limerick , 01-JUN-05. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D.; (1999) 'Access all areas: the culture of higher education, past and present.'. [N/A], CCCRW Euroconference, University of Oxford, 1999. By invitation, Oxford , 01-JAN-99. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D.; (1999) 'The politics of persuasion: the founding of Girton College 1866-1875'. [N/A], History of Education Society (UK) Annual Conference, Winchester, 1999, Winchester , 01-JAN-99. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D.; (1999) 'Home education in nineteenth century Ireland: the role and status of the governess'. [N/A], Educational Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, UCD, 1999, UCD , 01-JAN-99. | |||||||||
| Raftery, D.; (1998) 'The lady teacher in the nineteenth century: romantic images and harsh realities.'. [N/A], Women's History Association of Ireland, University of Limerick, 1998, Limerick , 01-JAN-98. | |||||||||
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Committees
| Committee : Board of Directors (Trustees) Mount Anville Schools |
| Committee : Executive Committee, History of Education Society (UK) |
| Committee : Corresponding editorial board, History of Education (Routledge, UK) |
| Committee : International Standing Conference of the History of Education, Gender Working Group: Irish Universities representative. |
| Committee : School Executive Committee, School of Education |
Outreach Activities
| Over a decade ago, Dr Deirdre Raftery was part of the team that established the Trinity Access Programme, at Trinity College Dublin. With a commitment to the provision of education opportunities, she developed a liaison programme between TCD and a range of Dublin schools in areas of disadvantage, running summers schools and a support programme at TCD. She pioneered a service learning initiative linking UCD school of education with the Royal Hospital, Donnybrook, providing a programme of intergenerational exchange and learning support. She is committed to choice in education and has co-authored a book, Choosing a School (2007) examining school choice in Ireland. She was Chair of the Parents Association of Sandford Parish National School, a Church of Ireland national school in Ranelagh, Dublin. She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Mount Anville Schools, in Dublin, which belong to the Catholic Sacred Heart Network of schools in Ireland, Scotland and Malta. In 2009 Dr Raftery was an AERA delegate on the People to People Ambassadors Programme to South Africa, visiting schools and colleges in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
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Honours and Awards
| Year: 2012. Title: SCoTENS Research Award |
| Year: 2012. Title: University of Notre Dame Hibernian Research Award |
| Year: 2012. Title: Ireland-Canada University Foundation Research Award |
| Year: 2010. Title: Visiting Research Fellow, University of Oxford |
| Year: 2005. Title: Hon. Life Member, Girton College Cambridge. |
| Year: 1993. Title: Luker-Cobbe Visiting Research Scholar, University of Cambridge |
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| Year: 1995. Title: Alumnus Gold Medal (best research paper), Trinity College Dublin |
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| Year: 1996. Title: Grace Lawless Lee Award, Trinity College Dublin |
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| Year: 1997. Title: Provost¿s Award, Trinity College Dublin |
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| Year: 2000. Title: President¿s Research Award, University College Dublin |
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Other Activities
| PhD external examiner, University of Limerick 2009 |
| History of Education Society (UK) Member; peer reviewing of academic papers for publication; reviewing of academic books; contributor to quarterly journal (publisher: Routledge & Talor Francis). |
| Educational Studies Assocation of Ireland ESAI Member; papers published in the journal (Routledge Taylor Francis); peer reviewer of papers; contribution to annual conferences |
| Examiner for DCU/Mater Dei 01/09/2003 - 01/09/2006 |
| NUI Interview Board Member, for award of NUI Mary L. Thornton Scholarship 01/06/2006 - |
| PhD Interview Board, for Trinity College Dublin (Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, School of Histories and Humanities) 29/09/2006 - | |||||||||
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External Collaborators
| Dr Raftery is currently collaborating on a major funded research bid with the University of Cambridge, the University of Hamburg, the University of Winchester, Radboud University, Nijmegen, and KU Leuven. Affiliations and memberships include: International Standing Conference of the History of Education; History of Education (UK); HWRBI. In 2009 Dr Raftery was invited by the American Education Research Association to participate as Citizen Ambassador on a delegation to South Africa in November, where she visited a number of universities and schools in Johannesburg and Cape Town. As part of her own research into the history of mission education, she has recently worked in archives and schools in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Penang. |