Aiden is a psychologist and educator with over 25 years’ experience working in the education sector. His dual competencies in research and teaching enable him to contribute significantly to the education sector both nationally and internationally. His primary area of research expertise is wellbeing, with a particular focus on conducting research that focuses on wellbeing in educational contexts. Aiden is particularly interested in research that is beneficent, that focuses on working with marginalised and vulnerable populations and that adopts a participatory approach. Aiden founded and directs The Research Centre For Psychology, Education and Emotional Intelligence (PEEI) at TU Dublin, which was officially launched in 2018.

Amanda Dixon (BBS, MBS) is a lecturer in the School of Global Business and lectures on multiple cross Faculty programmes in the Business Regulatory space. Amanda is also Operations Lead on the Student Transformative Learning Record (STLR) project.

Currently, Amanda delivers modules on the Bachelor of Business (Honours) in International Business programme, the Bachelor of Business (Honours) in Information Technology programme and the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Digital Marketing programme.

In her capacity as an operations lead on the Student Transformative Learning Record (STLR) team, Amanda presented at the Valuing Ireland’s Teaching and Learning Event and contributed to the first cross faculty Teaching and Learning Publication in the Faculty of Business and presented at the 13th Annual Transformative Learning Conference in Oklahoma City.

Amanda is a member of the following entities TU Dublin’s Academic Council, the Authentic Assessment Community of Practice (TU Dublin) and the Rethinking Assessment Community of Practice (QQI).

Her research interests include authentic assessment, transformative learning and sustainability.

Mairéad is an Employment Officer with AsIAm. In this role, she supports Autistic adults seeking

employment, and potential employers engaging with Autistic talent. In addition, Mairéad lectures

in Inclusive Education, Critical Disability Studies, and Equality Studies.

ATU Career and Learning Pathways Manager (HCI HigherEd 4.0 Project) managing the MyCareerPath Service for Careers and Learning Pathways, including Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) for people in the workplace. Using an innovative digital learning Career Development Platform, MyCareerPath, and a well-established employability framework, ATU have set out the ways in which we give opportunities to students to develop their employability skills.

Bridie has over 20 years’ experience of managing, developing and delivering excellent outcomes for the careers advisory and guidance services in higher education.

Sally Reidy has been lecturing at Atlantic Technological University (formally Galway Mayo Institute of Technology) since 2000 and recently completed a Master of Arts in Guidance Counselling.    Lately she is focused on enhancing students' employability skills through delivering "The Next Step" employability module.