Professor Andrea Prothero
Professor Andy Prothero joined the School of Business in 1999. Professor Prothero took up the role of Associate Dean (Academic) in the School of Business in 2011 where she teaches at undergraduate, postgraduate and executive levels. She won a UCD School of Business “Outstanding Educator” award for her postgraduate teaching in 2002, and another School of Business teaching award for both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in 2009. She led the implementation of the new undergraduate curriculum for the School of Business which launched in September 2011. Her teaching mirrors her research interests and focuses primarily on issues of ethics in the business world. Professor Prothero is currently co-teaching Business in Society to 500 first year business students.
Project
A President's Teaching award goes to Professor Prothero in recognition of her substantive track record in teaching and learning and in educational leadership in the School of Business. The President's Teaching award will also provide support for Professor Prothero's project, Ethics in Business Education. In 2011-12 the School of Business introduced new curricula for its undergraduate business programmes. One tenet of the new curricula is the embedding of Business in Society as a central pillar of undergraduate business education in UCD. As previous research has suggested that business students are less ethical than other university students this study will focus on the ethical sensitivity of business compared to non-business students by exploring attitudes towards academic dishonesty. It will also consider students who have embarked on the new curriculum and compare them to current final year students where business ethics teaching was not central to the overall programme.
Dr Naomi McAreavey
A graduate of Queen's University, Belfast, Dr Naomi McAreavey was appointed lecturer of Renaissance Literature in UCD School of English, Drama and Film in September 2006. She teaches in all areas of early modern literature, including Shakespeare, and with her colleagues Danielle Clarke and Jane Grogan she designed a new MA in Renaissance Literature and Culture in collaboration with Queen's and was part of the School team that introduced Enquiry Based Learning to the 1st year English curriculum. She was also a member of the Curriculum Review committee, led by Fionnuala Dillane, that in 2007 recommended and implemented major change in English undergraduate curriculum. She is due to complete the Graduate Diploma in University Teaching and Learning in the summer of 2013.
Project
A President’s Teaching Award goes to Dr McAreavey in recognition of the energy and enthusiasm that she brings not only to her own teaching but in contributing to the development of new approaches to education in the School of English, Drama and Film. The President's Teaching Award will also provide support for Dr McAreavey's project, Digitizing a Modular Curriculum Map for English. This interactive digitised ‘module map’ will provide a visual arrangement of the 80+ undergraduate modules in English, helping students to navigate the curriculum from their first to final year of study by charting some of the different pathways they can take through the large range of modular options in the subject. Helping students make informed choices and supporting the registration process, the module map will showcase the range and diversity of undergraduate offerings and the flexibility and coherence of English within UCD Horizons. The Committee also considered that this method of visualising module choice will have a wider value across the university.