Hello and welcome. I’m Catherine Cronin, an independent scholar focused on critical and social justice approaches in digital, open and higher education. I co-edited the award-winning, open-access book Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures with Laura Czerniewicz, published in 2023; co-edited a special issue of Learning, Media & Technology Feminist Perspectives on Learning, Media, and Educational Technology in 2022; and completed a GO-GN research fellowship Just Knowledge in 2021.
Recent peer-reviewed publications include Open educational practices; Open education: Walking a critical path; Framing open educational practices from a social justice perspective; and Equity Unbound as critical intercultural praxis. In December 2021, I finished a 3-year strategic role at Ireland’s National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, where I worked as digital and open education lead (see this page for more details).
I am a regular contributor to collaborative projects and conversations in the areas of digital, open and higher education, within Ireland and globally. My academic background includes a PhD (Open Education), MA Women’s Studies (Gender & Technology), MEng Systems Engineering, and BSc Mechanical Engineering. I’ve been involved in teaching, research and advocacy in higher education and in the community for over 35 years.
Please find my contact details on Contact menu above – or join in conversation on Mastodon: @catherinecronin@mastodon.ie or BlueSky: @catherinecronin.bsky.social
“Our warm gratitude … to those who gave us breath and give us hope. To our foremothers who imagined and fought for the futures that are our present, to our forebears in critical education and activism, to all who imagine better futures for/on this precious planet, and to all who work to create them.”
(from Acknowledgements, Higher Education for Good, p. 26)