ProfessorEmma J. O'Neill

Professor Emma O’Neill is Acting Director of the UCD Innovation Academy.  She is a specialist in Small Animal Medicine within the School of Veterinary Medicine and has a passion for learning. Emma’s ethos centres around durable skills-based learning and enabling students to succeed through the development of effective approaches to their learning. Essentially, Emma aims to help students to learn how to fish effectively in ways that will sustain this ability in a rapidly changing world. A Fellow in Teaching and Academic Development, Emma co-developed the Metacognition Design Framework, an evidence-based learning design to support metacognitive skill development in students through blended learning. This framework is available open access to provide experiential learning for educators and as part of a growing community of practice.