The conference will be focused in three areas of Sustainability, Globalisation and Interculturalism. We are delighted to have high profile speakers in each of these disciplines.
Our keynote speakers include:
* Dr Martin Caraher, the Associate Dean/Reader in Food and Health Policy in the Centre for Food Policy at City University, London. Dr Caraher has worked extensively on issues related to food poverty, cooking skills, local sustainable food supplies, the role of markets and co-ops in promoting health, farmers markets, food deserts & food access, retail concentration and globalisation.
* Dr Kate Fletcher is the keynote speaker in the area of fashion and sustainability. Dr Fletcher has been exploring fashion as a positive force for change towards sustainability for the last fifteen years. She has helped develop the concept of 'slow fashion' and has championed innovative approaches to developing sustainable fashion products and services with clients including high street retailers, small design-led companies and non-profit organizations. She is the author of the widely acclaimed book, 'Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys'.
* Dr Dympna Devine is the keynote speaker in the area of Interculturalism and education. Dr Devine is a senior lecturer in the School of Education, University College Dublin, where she is Director of the Structured PhD programme and Chair of post-graduate studies. She lectures in the areas of sociology of education, sociology of childhood and qualitative research methods. Chair of the Egalitarian World Initiative (EWI) research cluster on Children's Rights, she was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship to NOSEB, where she has been appointed as external examiner for research degrees. She has published nationally and internationally in the areas of Childhood Studies and Children's Welfare; Migration, Ethnicity and Schooling; Gender and Education Management and School Effectiveness and Improvement. An invited expert peer reviewer for the European Science Foundation (ESF) for the period 2008 - 2009 she is currently involved in a number of international research projects in the areas of effective teaching and learning and facilitating migrant parents in schools.
A call for submission of papers for oral and poster presentations will be posted in Autumn 2009.
The IFHE Council 2010 Organising Committee, St Angela's College and IFHE Ireland look forward to welcoming you to this groundbreaking conference in Ireland and in particular to St Angela's College, Sligo in July 2010 and are making every effort to have an exciting, dynamic and fruitful programme of events for all participants.
Time: TBA
Venue: St Angelas, Sligo
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