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ProfessorJudith Harford

Full Professor

School of Education

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  • Full Professor
    School of Education
  • 7167985
  • University College Dublin, School of Education, Roebuck Castle Belfield Dublin 4

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
    1 Jan 2024 - 31 Jul 2023
    I have been appointed Visiting Scholar at the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, a position I will take up in 2024.
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Royal Irish Academy Social Sciences Committee
    1 Jan 2023
    Chair
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Irish Research Council Impact Researcher of the Year
    1 Dec 2022
    I received this award in 2022 in recognition of the impact of my work in the area of gender and social class inequalities in education.
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Irish Research Council Research Ally Award
    1 Dec 2022
    I was awarded an Irish Research Council Research Ally award in 2022 in recognition of my work in supporting doctoral and early career researchers.
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Royal Irish Academy Social Sciences Committee
    29 Jun 2021
    Member
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Public Interest Representative
    11 Feb 2021
    Public Interest Representative, Law Society of Ireland, FE 1 Board of Examiners
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge
    13 Mar 2020
    I was awarded a Visiting Fellowship to the University of Cambridge in 2020 in recognition of my scholarship in the history of women's education.
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
    1 Mar 2020
    I was made a Visiting Fellow and a Life Member of Clare Hall Cambridge in 2020. Visiting Fellows at Clare Hall include several nobel prize winners, including Seamus Heaney.
  • CONSULTING / ADVISORY
    Economic and Social Research Council UK
    1 Jan 2020
    Advisor
  • PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
    Executive Board Member, Educational Studies Association of Ireland
    1 Jan 2020
  • REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Oxford University Press
    1 Jan 2020
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Fulbright Outreach Presentations
    1 Sep 2019
    I regularly speak at events both in UCD and off campus for Fulbright to showcase the cultural exchange programme, with a particular focus on widening participation
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Power2Progress (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Sep 2019
    power2progress.ie
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Guest speaker at An Cosan Graduation
    1 Sep 2018
    guest speaker at An Cosan Graduation and meeting with students and graduates to discuss further options for progression in H.E.
  • REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Cambridge University Press
    1 Jan 2018
    Anonymous peer review
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Fulbright Scholar in the Social Sciences
    1 Jan 2018 - 1 Jan 2019
    I was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in the Social Sciences, 2018-19 in recognition of my expertise in the history of women's education, one of only three scholar, non industry-funded awards.
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Speaker at UCD Conferrings
    1 Jan 2018
    I have given addresses at UCD conferrings
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society, USA
    1 Jan 2017
    The MHS (1791) is a major historical archive specializing in early American, Massachusetts, and New England history. In 2017, I was awarded one of their prestigious short term fellowships.
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Flaherty Visiting Professorship
    1 Jan 2017
    In July 2017, I was awarded the Ireland Canada University Foundation Flaherty Visiting Professorship, one of only two awards made nationally across all disciplines.
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Girls in STEM
    1 Jan 2017
    SFI funded outreach to DEIS schools to support girls in STEM
  • REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Routledge Press
    1 Jan 2017
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Speaking at DEIS schools to students and parents about the benefits of further and higher education
    1 Jan 2017
    I regularly speak at DEIS schools throughout the country to students and their families in relation to the benefits of further and higher education
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Graduate Studies Board
    15 Dec 2016
    Member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Professional Programme Board, School of Education, UCD
    15 Dec 2016
    Chair
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Academic Council
    1 Nov 2016
    Member