Assoc ProfessorAnthony Cronin

UCD Access & Lifelong Learning, in collaboration with UCD Teaching & Learning and UCD Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, are excited to announce The University for All Faculty Partnership Programme. This Faculty Partnership Programme is designed to support and accelerate the implementation of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) throughout the University. It offers a structured opportunity to undertake the Universal Design for Learning training, to qualify as a UDL Facilitator, and become a role model who will persuade and influence others as to the merits of inclusion for all students. The Programme has now begun and the first group of Faculty Partners has been appointed across the University:

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This award is the University’s highest recognition for UCD faculty and staff in a teaching role awarded for your sustained commitment to teaching excellence and student learning at UCD.

Review examinations and continuous assessment components for Mathematics department

On Feb 26th the School of Mathematical Sciences' Maths Sparks coordinators teamed up with the Science Gallery and the IFI in co-ordinating cryptography workshops for Transition Year students. Following a screening of The Imitation Game, 80 secondary students from all over the country participated in the interactive cryptography workshops and found out more about the mathematics of code-breaker and mathematician Alan Turing's work. The workshop was hosted by Dr Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain and Dr Anthony Cronin, School of Mathematical Sciences, UCD.

Public Outreach event involving 6-weekly mathematics workshops designed by undergraduate students from the School of Mathematics and Statistics delivered to 72 DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity inSchools) from 12 schools in the Dublin/Wicklow area.

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A one month scholarship to visit the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology in Haifa under the Erasmus Mundus Action 2 EMAIL III programme. While at the Technion I worked with Professor Raphael Loewy on problems related to the nonnegative inverse eigenvalue problem.

The Maths Support Centre tutor team won the University's Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning 2017 in recognition for their "Significant impact on the quality of the student educational experience".

Suas Educational Development is an international NGO focused on education. Our vision is a world in which all children and young people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential. Our mission is to transform the lives of children and young people through education. We currently run programmes in Ireland, India, Zambia and Kenya.In Ireland Suas work exclusively with designated disadvantaged (DEIS) schools targeting our support towards children aged 8-14 years, who are struggling with basic literacy and are starting to fall behind their peers and lose confidence as learners. One in ten children in Irish schools has serious difficulty with reading or writing but in some DEIS schools this is as high as one in three students.We target our interventions in the most disadvantaged (urban band 1 DEIS) schools in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford.Over 2015/16 we worked with over 740 children through 67 projects delivered in 37 DEIS schools.We deliver evidence-based literacy support interventions and recruit and train volunteer mentors(from local corporates, third level colleges and the local community) to deliver one to one interventions with rigorous monitoring and evaluation.We are in the process of developing a new numeracy intervention, in response to the demand from partner DEIS schools to help students struggling with basic numeracy concepts, using a mentoring model similar to our literacy support programme.We have piloted a number of numeracy projects in the current term and now wish to commission an assignment to develop a series of numeracy worksheets from the selected workbook.

Director of Maths Sparks Problem Solving Workshops encouraging secondary school students from disadvantaged (DEIS) schools to continue studying mathematics at higher level at leaving certificate and beyond. Workshops designed by undergraduate mathematics students under the guidance of lecturers in the UCD School of Mathematics & Statistics. Workshops run in conjunction with UCD Access & Lifelong Learning.

Director of 'Maths Sparks' - a series of problem solving workshops in Mathematics designed by undergraduate and post-graduate students in the School of Mathematics in conjunction with lecturers Dr Anthony Cronin. The programme offers TY and 5th year secondary school students opportunities to engage with mathematical content which diverges from their traditional school curriculum and engage students in their mathematical learning. Each workshop is concluded with a talk from a Mathematics research on their area of expertise. Maths Sparks is funded by UCD Teaching and Learning through SPARC funding and by the UCD Access Centre.

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Successful UCD SPARC (Supporting Partnerships And Realising Change) programme application for Maths Sparks - a series of mathematical and statistical problem solving workshops designed and delivered by undergraduate students for pupils from second level DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) schools.

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The Maths Support Centre and James Joyce Library won top prize in the judges' choice for the UCD Working Smarter Together symposium poster competition

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