Dr Hilary Tierney from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth will be joining us at SEPI as a Visiting Lecturer today until June 2nd. She will spend some of this time visiting the South Island also.

Her interests are broadly related to the professional practice in the social professions (youth work and community work especially) with an emphasis on education and training for that practice. Her other research interests relate to articulating the benefits and outcomes of youth work for young people, the role of informal social education in developing young people's critical capacities as local and global citizens.
 
She is located in PA211 on extension x5716 while on the Karori campus.
 
Hilary graduated from NUIM's first undergraduate professional youth work and community work Diploma in 1987. She went on to work in both youth work and community work, specialising in organisational development practice and in education and training for the emerging profession in FE and at third level. Hilary returned, part-time, to the Department of Applied Social Studies in 1996 and took up a full-time role in 2006. She co-ordinates the second year of the MA in Community and Youth Work and contributes across the professional programmes in the areas of youth work, professional skills development and research theory and practice.