Siobhán Morrissey

Dr Siobhán Morrissey is a lecturer in Childrens Studies in the School of Education. Siobhán completed her PhD on the British childrens author Enid Blyton, examining the underlying colonial and imperial ideologies of her twentieth-centuryfiction.She is currently completing a monograph based on her PhD thesis for Public - No restrictionation with Bloomsbury Academic in 2025.She previously worked as a post-doctoral researcher on an Erasmus + funded project which focused on promoting service-learning with migrant communities, with collaborators in the University ofSantiago de Compostela in Spain and the University of Verona in Italy.Siobhán is currently working on aTaighde Éireann (formerly IRC)funded project in partnership with Childrens Books Ireland titled Irish Childrens Books in the Classroom: Enhancing Pre-Service Teachers Knowledgeof Irish Literature whichworks to betterequippre-service primary school teachers with the knowledge, skills, and resources to cultivate positiverelationships between child learners, books, and reading andincrease the use of Irish childrens booksinprimaryschool classrooms.

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