Hear Dr. Paula Flynn articulate her views on developing learners’ voice at PDA conference, Friday 16th at 11:30. Paula was the principal investigator on a national study funded by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) between 2014 and 2017, which involved a consultative process with students at post-primary level in the development of opportunities for curricular development. A significant objective of this study was to determine how to embed a culture of listening and a sustainable response to student voices both in schools and education discourse nationally. Read more and see full schedule here
Mary was appointed Principal in St Paul’s Secondary School Oughterard Galway in 1993. In 2005 she was seconded as Assistant National Coordination to the Leadership Development for Schools (LDS) team and coordinated programmes such as Misneach-the programme for newly appointed Principals and Forbairt –a development programme for established Principals and Deputy Principals. She is currently seconded as National Director of 
Dr. Sean Ruth addresses delegates at PDA Conference
Dr. Deirdre Mathews Assistant Chief Inspector Post Primary and Jason Kelly Post Primary Maths Inspector are delivering Quality Framework and School Self Evaluation Workshop at the P.D.A. Conference, Thursday 17th.
Domnall Fleming is a senior inspector with the Department of Education and Skills (DES) and is based in the Munster region. He graduated from University College Cork (UCC) with a Masters degree in Geography and a Higher Diploma in Education in 1983. He taught in a number of second-level schools in Cork city and county, and for fourteen years was a teacher of Geography and English, and an assistant principal, in Coláiste Choilm in Ballincollig, Co Cork. He was seconded on a part-time basis to the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) as Education Officer to the Leaving Certificate Course Committee from 1996-2002 and lectured, also on a part-time basis, to PGDE geography students in UCC from 1997-2002. In 2002, he was appointed inspector for Geography with the DES Inspectorate and was promoted to senior inspector in 2004. In the period 2008 to 2012 he completed school-based research relating to student voice in Irish post-primary schools and was conferred with a PhD in Education at UCC in 2013.
Dr. Seán Ruth is an Organisational Psychologist who was formerly Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Head of the Department of Organisational and Social Studies at the National College of Industrial Relations, Dublin.
