Staff Profiles

Dr Lorraine McIlrath

MA., BA.,

Contact Details

Academic Staff Developer
CKI
Life Course Institute
NUI Galway
T: Ext. 5234
E: lorraine.mcilrath@nuigalway.ie

Coordinator
ILAS
North Campus
T: 091 495234
E: lorraine.mcilrath@nuigalway.ie
@lmcilrath

Biography

Since 2004, Dr. Lorraine McIlrath has coordinated the Community Knowledge Initiative (CKI) at the National University of Ireland Galway. There she is responsible for developing and supporting civic engagement activities across the university, with the CKI team, including service learning and student volunteering. Over the last two decades Lorraine has led and developed a number of national and international projects to further the civic and social role of higher education within society. From 2007 to 2012, she founded and was Principal Investigator (PI) of Campus Engage funded origionally by the Higher Education Authority (national Irish network to support civic engagement within higher education). Campus Enage is now a mainstream national programme and is based at the Irish Universities Association (IUA). She currently co-leads a national project to pilot the Carnegie Foundation Framework for Community Engagement in partnership with the University of Massachusetts and Merrimack College Boston supported by the Ireland Funds and the Talloires Network. She developed the opening of a new communtiy cafe concept based at ILAS called Saol Cafe (Irish for Life) in partnership with SCCUL Enterprises giving people marginalised from employment an opportunity to work.She has keynoted on her work around the world, from the USA to Saudi Arabia to Spain to Australia. She is a founding member partner in a nine university EU Tempus Funded Project to support the introduction of service learning to five universities in Jordan and Lebanon entitled the Tawasol Project. In 2014 she was elected to the Steering Committe of the Talloires Network. She co-directed the Europe Engage Project in partnership with the Autonomous University of Madrid. She has consulted for the British Council in Russia - supporting the development of the College for Multicultural Education in Sochi and worked for the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA) as Programme Director in Northern Ireland.She spent a decade in Northern Ireland lecturering at the University of Ulster's UNESCO Centre teaching courses on the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process and within an action research project exploring peer mediation as a process for conflict resolution with the EMU Peer Support Project. In addition, she was worked on the development of the Northern Ireland curricula framework for ‘Local and Global Citizenship' in partnership with the Citizenship Foundation, UNESCO Centre and CCEA.Lorraine has published on the broad theme of civic engagement and higher education in books and journals and is co-editor of a number of books including Mapping Civic Engagement within Higher Education in Ireland (2009), National Survey of Civic Engagement within Higher Education in Ireland (Campus Engage 2011), Civic Engagement and Higher Education - Comparative Perspectives (2012), Higher Education and Community Based Research (2014), and recently published Embedding Service Learning in European Higher Education - Developing a Culture of Civic Engagement (2019). She is peer reviewer on a number of higher education journals and reviews a number of international university civic engagement awards.

Research Projects

Project	Start Date	End Date
UNIVERSITY OF SANCTUARY GENERAL RESEARCH ACCOUNT	01-DEC-19	30-NOV-29
UNIVERSITY OF SANCTUARY	01-OCT-18	30-SEP-20
Erasmus+ Euope Engage Hector Opazo Carvajal	01-JUN-15	31-AUG-15
Europe Engage - Developing a Culture of Civic Engagment through Servvice Learning within Higher Education in Europe	01-SEP-14	31-AUG-17
CKI DEVELOPMENT GENERAL ACCOUNT LORRAINE MCILRATH	27-MAR-12	31-JUL-20
TAWASOL PROJECT LORRAINE MCILRATH TEMPUS EU AGREEMENT NO 2009 4694	15-JAN-10	14-JAN-13
CKI	15-SEP-04	31-DEC-19

Book Chapters

	Year	Publication
	(2017)	'Engaged University' McIlrath, L. (2017) 'Engaged University' In: International Encyclopaedia of Higher Education Systems and Institutions. New York: Springer. [Details]
	(2015)	'Community University Research and Partnerships in Ireland – Confronting the Crossroads' McIlrath, L. (2015) 'Community University Research and Partnerships in Ireland – Confronting the Crossroads' In: Strengthening Community University Research Partnerships: Global Perspectives. Vancouver: University of Victoria and PRIA. [Details]
	(2015)	'The Civic University' McIlrath, L. (2015) 'The Civic University' In: Learning Through Community engagement: Vision and Practice in Higher Education. Sydney: PACE. [Details]
	(2014)	'Emerging practices on community-engaged research: perspectives from Ireland' McIlrath, L., Bates, C., Burns, K., Lyons, A., & Murphy, P. (2014) 'Emerging practices on community-engaged research: perspectives from Ireland' In: Higher education and community-based research: Creating a global vision. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]
	(2014)	'Community University Engagement - Global Terrain, Trends and Terms' McIlrath, L. (2014) 'Community University Engagement - Global Terrain, Trends and Terms' In: UNESCO GUNI, Higher Education in the World 5: Knowledge, Engagement and Higher Education: Rethinking Social Responsibility. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]
	(2013)	'Student Engagement through Volunteering in Ireland' McIlrath, L. and Tansey, L. (2013) 'Student Engagement through Volunteering in Ireland' In: Student Engagement Handbook: Practice in Higher Education. Bingley: Emerald. [Details]
	(2012)	'Community Perspective on University Partnership – Prodding the Sacred Cow. I' McIlrath, L. (2012) 'Community Perspective on University Partnership – Prodding the Sacred Cow. I' In: Higher Education and Civic Engagement – Comparative Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]
	(2011)	'Tightrope Walking - Balancing IT within Service Learning in Ireland' Byrne, P., and McIlrath, L. (2011) 'Tightrope Walking - Balancing IT within Service Learning in Ireland' In: Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, And Community Partnerships: Concepts, Models, and Applications. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global. [Details]
	(2009)	'Driving Civic Engagement within Higher Education in Ireland' McIlrath, L., & Lyons, A (2009) 'Driving Civic Engagement within Higher Education in Ireland' In: Mapping Civic Engagement within Higher Education in Ireland. Dublin: AISHE & Campus Engage. [Details]
	(2007)	'The Process of Localising Pedagogies for Civic Engagement in Ireland: the Significance of Conceptions, Culture and Context' Boland, J., McIlrath, L. ( (2007) 'The Process of Localising Pedagogies for Civic Engagement in Ireland: the Significance of Conceptions, Culture and Context' In: Higher Education and Civic Engagement: International Perspectives. Aldershot: Ashgate. [Details]

Published Reports

	Year	Publication
	(2011)	Survey of Civic Engagement Activities in Higher Education in Ireland. Lyons, A. and McIlrath, L. (2011) Survey of Civic Engagement Activities in Higher Education in Ireland. Campus Engage, Galway. [Details]
	(2006)	Understandings of Citizenship Education: Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland. Niens, U. and McIlrath, L. (2006) Understandings of Citizenship Education: Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland. Ulster University, Coleraine. [Details]

Edited Books

	Year	Publication
	(2019)	Armburuzabala, P, McIlrath, L and Opazo, H (Ed.). (2019) Developing Service Learning in Higher Education: Developing a Culture of Civic Engagement in Europe Oxfordshire: Taylor and Francis. [Details]
	(2014)	Munck, R. McIlrath, L Hall, B and Tandon, R. (Eds.) (Ed.). (2014) Community Based Research – North and South Dimensions New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]
	(2012)	McIlrath, L., Lyons, A. and Munck, R. (Eds.) (Ed.). (2012) Higher Education and Civic Engagement – Comparative Perspectives New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]
	(2009)	McIlrath, L., Farrell, A., Hughes, J., Lillis, Lyons, A. (Eds.) (Ed.). (2009) Mapping Civic Engagement within Higher Education in Ireland Dublin: AISHE & Campus Engage. [Details]
	(2007)	L. McIlrath & I. MacLabhrainn (Ed.). (2007) Higher Education and Civic Engagement: International Perspectives Aldershot: Ashgate. [Details]

Other Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2015)	'La Universidad Cívica. ¿Un vacío legal y político?' McIlrath, L. (2015) 'La Universidad Cívica. ¿Un vacío legal y político?' Revista de Currículum y Formación del Profesorado, (19.1) . [Details]
	(2014)	'The Impact of Service Learning on Community and Voluntary Organisations in the West of Ireland' Healy, M. Rowan, M. & McIlrath, L. (2014) 'The Impact of Service Learning on Community and Voluntary Organisations in the West of Ireland' AISHE, . [Details]
	(2009)	'Understandings of citizenship education in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: Public discourses among stakeholders in the public and private sectors' Niens, U. and McIlrath, L. (2009) 'Understandings of citizenship education in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: Public discourses among stakeholders in the public and private sectors' Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 5 (1) :73-87. [Details]
	(2007)	'The Civic Purpose and Avowed Mission of Higher Education Institutions – Diversity or Uniformity?' Gonzalez-Perez, M.A., Maclabhrainn, I. and McIlrath, L. (2007) 'The Civic Purpose and Avowed Mission of Higher Education Institutions – Diversity or Uniformity?' The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, 7 (2) :187-198. [Details]