Dr Carol Yelverton-Halpin
PhD.
Programme Lead - Early Childhood Care and Education
Biography
Dr. Carol Yelverton-Halpin is a Lecturer in Critical and Creative Thinking and Academic Skills, Reflective Practice and Creative Practice in and Early Childhood Care and Education, Social Care Practice, Curriculum Quality and Practice in Early Childhood Care and Education, Comparative pedagogy, Developmental Psychology in Early Childhood, Social care, Research Methods/Skills, Introduction to Management, Professional writing skills and Communications in the School of Humanities, in the Department of Social care and Early childhood Education, SETU Waterford. She was a Course Lead for the Adult Foundations Programme and Co-Founder of Blossoms Theatre in Education. Her doctoral research is in the field of critical education theory with a focus on the ‘self’ and insights into transformative possibilities. She has explored the links between power, social disadvantage and education and its impact on the ‘self’.
Qualifications
Ph.D (Education)
M.A. Education
P.G. Cert Mentoring for teacher practice
P.G. Cert TESOL
P.G. Cert Research Supervisory skills
P.G. Cert Supervisory Management
B.A. (Hons) (Adult Education)
B.A. (Early Childhood Studies)
B.P.S (British Psychological Society)
(Psychometric testing Level A, B and intermediate)
Health & Fitness (Higher Cert)
Children and Young People’s Health and Fitness (Higher Cert)
Personal Training in Health and Fitness (Higher Cert)
Early Childhood care and Education (Higher Cert)
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
TEFL(Teaching English as a foreign language)
Restorative Practice
Distressed and At Risk Students
Toy together Young and Old
Main teaching areas
Post-Graduate
STEAM and Digital Learning
Child Developmental Psychology in Early years
Reflective and Creative Practice in Early Childhood Care and Education
Curriculum Quality and Practice in Early Childhood Care and Education
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Care and Education
Placement Practice for Early Years Care and Education
Degree
Thesis supervision in Early Childhood Care and Education and Social Care Practice
Research Supervision
| Post-Graduate Level | External Supervisor for MA by Research in LIT Currently Supervising two students to PhD Level Supported international students in their MA degrees and proposals to PG Programmes. Supported students in their masters by research and their Ph.D. proposals. |
| Graduate Level | Supervised undergraduate students in their Thesis, in Projects and Research Assignments |
Research Studies and Projects
2022: Yelverton-Halpin (2022) Higher Order thinking and Immersive Learning in social care practice and early years education: ICETC 2022 | The 15th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers, Barcelona, Spain.
Yelverton-Halpin (2022) Sustainable Higher Education generated from Inquiry based Learning: Teaching and Learning, Conference Dublin.
2021: Graham Cagney, A., Yelverton-Halpin, Cordie, L., and O, Mahony, A (2021) Black Tiles and Silence: Going Digital. Voices from an FAVE Interdisciplinary Community of Practice. ECER 2021 4th edition of the Proceedings of the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Vocational Education and Training Network (VETNET)
2020:
Yelverton-Halpin, C., Graham Cagney, A., O, Mahony, A. and Buckley M. (2020) Building the Bridge of Critical Consciousness. Educators who are committed and engaged with the radical nature of the transformative learning processes in higher education are increasingly faced with demands for fast adaptable responses to a neo-liberalist education agenda. The European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) TPLE Conference.
2019:
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (2019) Relationship Matters and what Matters in Early years relationships: The inter-reliance between young children and adults in Relationship Matters is key today. Bourdieu’s notion of Cultural Capital, and Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems are essential in informing this discussion OMEP Conference Cork.
2019:
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (2019) Social Justice and Equality in Early Years, We All Stand Together, Conference, LIT, Limerick.
Project Title: A Critical search for the ‘self’ in adult education: Bourdieuian Insights in to Transformative Possibilities. Yelverton-Halpin, C. (PI, WIT). Doctoral thesis/Doctoral Research: 2011-2016
Project Title: ‘I am what I do’: A Study of Teacher Education Qualification (TEQ) Training in Further and Adult Education in the island of Ireland. Graham Cagney, A. (PI, WIT). Cohen, N. (Co-PI, GTCNI), Yelverton-Halpin, C. (co-PI, WIT), Dr V. Mannix (co-PI, WIT). May 2015-December 2015 (extended to June 2016). SCoTENS funded project.
Graham Cagney, A., Cohen, N., & Yelverton-Halpin, C. (2016). The SAFETTI Study: A Study of Adult and Further Education Teacher Training in Ireland. 'Research in Post-Compulsory Education', ARPCE 2nd International Research Conference, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, UK 8-10 July 2016.
Project Title: An Investigation into the ‘self-esteem’ of Adult learners when they participate in Active Learning. Yelverton-Halpin, C. (PI). 2005-2008
Overview of Research Interests and Activities
Identity, Subjectivity and Social Class, Education, and Inequality.
SPARC research group
SETU (Waterford) School of Education - TELL research group.
Student Centred Learning group in collaboration with SETU Carlow and Waterford.
Coordinator of Student Feedback and Feedback Loops team in SETU
Teaching and Learning Committee in the School of Humanities SETU Waterford
Holistic education in Early childhood
Analysing Social Change School of humanities SETU Waterford.
Structured Ph.D. committee in the School of Humanities SETU Waterford
Supervising two Ph.D students
During her career, she has held roles in community and further education in the South East; leading and developing programmes in early childhood education, personal development, supervisory management and training and integrated counselling. Other key areas of experience and practice include: the development of programmes to support student learning and development, mentoring for the Reach project and for teaching practice in Early years and Adult Education. Carol is the author of a series of illustrated children’s short stories, an NLP practitioner, and qualified in psychometric testing (BPS). Outside her academic career, Carol has held management and supervisory roles in the provision of childcare, social care, and core skills programmes within FAS (now SOLAS) and the VEC sector. She also held the role of critical mass coordinator for the HSE and the VEC at the University Hospital Waterford teaching and mentoring on a Social care programme specifically designed to upskill the general staff in the Hospital with accredited qualifications.
Academic Responsibilities and Collaborations
Programme Lead, Early Childhood Care and Education, SETU Waterford.
Internal Collaboration with SETU Academic Community.
Member SETU School of Education - TELL research group.
Member of the Teaching and Learning Committee in the School of Humanities SETU Waterford
Member of the structured Ph.D. committee in the School of Humanities SETU Waterford
Honours and Awards
Teaching HERO 2021
First class honours, Critical Education Theory, B.A. Adult Education.
External Examiner for Dundalk Institute of Technology
Professional Memberships
| British Psychological Society 2003-date | Irish Institute of NLP 2003-date |
Teaching Council of Ireland 2006-date | Education Studies Association of Ireland 2015-date |
| British Education Research Association 2015-date | NAIRTL 2015-date |
| OMEP Early Years 2018-date | ESREA 2019- date |
Books/Book Sections
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (1990). ‘Operation Rudolf’ Intacta Print, Waterford
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (1989). ‘My Christmas Story’. Intacta Print, Waterford
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (1987). ‘The Long Hall of the Holdall’. ‘Irelands Own’ North Main Street, Wexford
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (1987). ‘My Birthday Surprise’. Intacta Print, Waterford
Non-Refereed Articles, Academic Papers/Book Reviews
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (2013) Advanced Study of Research methods (Academic paper)
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (2012) Understanding Learning, The Aquisition of a child by a Learning Disability, pp 60-70. London PCPYPU. (Review)
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (2011) Identity in Adult Learners in an intergenerational classroom, Kasworm, C. http;//aeq.sagepub.com.content/56/1/3. (Academic paper/review)
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (2011) Liminality and Practices of identity reconstruction, Beech, N. 2010, http;//hum.sagepub.com/content/64/2/285 (Academic paper/review)
Unpublished Works: Revise and Resubmit
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (2016) A Critical search for the ‘self’ in adult education: Bourdieuian Insights into Transformative Possibilities. Doctoral Thesis, University College Cork.
Conferences and Symposia (National and International Conference Papers)
2020
Yelverton-Halpin, C., Graham Cagney, A., O, Mahony, A. and Buckley M. (2020) Building the Bridge of Critical Consciousness. Educators who are committed and engaged with the radical nature of the transformative learning processes in higher education are increasingly faced with demands for fast adaptable responses to a neo-liberalist education agenda. The European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) TPLE Conference (Paper Accepted)
2019
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (2019) Relationship Matters and what Matters in Early years relationships: The inter-reliance between young children and adults in Relationship Matters is key today. Bourdieu’s notion of Cultural Capital, and Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems are essential in informing this discussion OMEP Conference Cork.
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (2019) Social Justice and Equality in Early Years, We All Stand Together, Conference, LIT, Limerick.
2016:
Yelverton-Halpin, C., Graham Cagney, A. and Cohen, N. ‘Future and the Ideal Self States’, ESERA: 8th Triennial European Research Conference, Imagining diverse futures for adult education: questions of power and resources of creativity. 8-11 September 2016, NUIM, Maynooth, Ireland.
Yelverton-Halpin, C., Graham Cagney, ‘The self in an intergenerational classroom’ British Education Research Association Annual Conference, University of Leeds, 13-15 September, 2016.
2016:
Graham Cagney, A., Cohen, N., & Yelverton-Halpin, C. (2016) ‘I am what I do’: A Study of Adult and Further Education Teacher Training in Ireland. ECER 2016 Leading Education: The Distinct Contributions of Educational Research and Researchers. EERA Conference, University College Dublin 22-26 August 2016. (Accepted).
Graham Cagney, A., Cohen, N., & Yelverton-Halpin, C. (2016). The SAFETTI Study: A Study of Adult and Further Education Teacher Training in Ireland. 'Research in Post-Compulsory Education', ARPCE 2nd International Research Conference, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, UK 8-10 July 2016. (Accepted)
2015:
Yelverton-Halpin, C. ‘Searching for the self in Adult Education through a Bourdieuian Lens’. Education Studies Association of Ireland Conference, ESAI Conference held at NUIM, Maynooth, Ireland on 12-April 2015. (Paper delivered)
Conferences Attended
2019 OMEP Relationship Matters and what Matters in Early years relationships
2019 Social Justice and Equality in Early Years, We All Stand Together LIT Limerick
2016 ARPCE 2nd International Research Conference, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, UK
| 2015 | OMEP World Assembly University College Cork. Ireland. |
| 2014 | International Research Methods Summer School, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland. 6-June-2014 |
| 2013 | Writing and Educational Research: Methods and the generation of Knowledge Claim University College Cork, Ireland. |
| 2012 | Doctoral Symposium, University College Cork, Ireland. |
| 2011 | All-Ireland Doctoral Conference for Researchers in Education, University College Dublin |
Books/Book Sections
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (1990). ‘Operation Rudolf’ Intacta Print, Waterford
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (1989). ‘My Christmas Story’. Intacta Print, Waterford
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (1987). ‘The Long Hall of the Holdall’. ‘Irelands Own’ North Main Street, Wexford
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (1987). ‘My Birthday Surprise’. Intacta Print, Waterford
Non-Refereed Articles, Academic Papers/Book Reviews
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (2013) Advanced Study of Research methods (Academic paper)
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (2012) Understanding Learning, The Aquisition of a child by a Learning Disability, pp 60-70. London PCPYPU. (Review)
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (2011) Identity in Adult Learners in an intergenerational classroom, Kasworm, C. http;//aeq.sagepub.com.content/56/1/3. (Academic paper/review)
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (2011) Liminality and Practices of identity reconstruction, Beech, N. 2010, http;//hum.sagepub.com/content/64/2/285 (Academic paper/review)
Unpublished Works: Revise and Resubmit
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (2016) A Critical search for the ‘self’ in adult education: Bourdieuian Insights into Transformative Possibilities. Doctoral Thesis, University College Cork.
Conferences and Symposia (National and International Conference Papers)
2020
Yelverton-Halpin, C., Graham Cagney, A., O, Mahony, A. and Buckley M. (2020) Building the Bridge of Critical Consciousness. Educators who are committed and engaged with the radical nature of the transformative learning processes in higher education are increasingly faced with demands for fast adaptable responses to a neo-liberalist education agenda. The European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) TPLE Conference (Paper Accepted)
2019
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (2019) Relationship Matters and what Matters in Early years relationships: The inter-reliance between young children and adults in Relationship Matters is key today. Bourdieu’s notion of Cultural Capital, and Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems are essential in informing this discussion OMEP Conference Cork.
Yelverton-Halpin, C. (2019) Social Justice and Equality in Early Years, We All Stand Together, Conference, LIT, Limerick.
2016:
Yelverton-Halpin, C., Graham Cagney, A. and Cohen, N. ‘Future and the Ideal Self States’, ESERA: 8th Triennial European Research Conference, Imagining diverse futures for adult education: questions of power and resources of creativity. 8-11 September 2016, NUIM, Maynooth, Ireland.
Yelverton-Halpin, C., Graham Cagney, ‘The self in an intergenerational classroom’ British Education Research Association Annual Conference, University of Leeds, 13-15 September, 2016.
2016:
Graham Cagney, A., Cohen, N., & Yelverton-Halpin, C. (2016) ‘I am what I do’: A Study of Adult and Further Education Teacher Training in Ireland. ECER 2016 Leading Education: The Distinct Contributions of Educational Research and Researchers. EERA Conference, University College Dublin 22-26 August 2016. (Accepted).
Graham Cagney, A., Cohen, N., & Yelverton-Halpin, C. (2016). The SAFETTI Study: A Study of Adult and Further Education Teacher Training in Ireland. 'Research in Post-Compulsory Education', ARPCE 2nd International Research Conference, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, UK 8-10 July 2016. (Accepted)
2015:
Yelverton-Halpin, C. ‘Searching for the self in Adult Education through a Bourdieuian Lens’. Education Studies Association of Ireland Conference, ESAI Conference held at NUIM, Maynooth, Ireland on 12-April 2015. (Paper delivered)
Conferences Attended
2019 OMEP Relationship Matters and what Matters in Early years relationships
2019 Social Justice and Equality in Early Years, We All Stand Together LIT Limerick
2016 ARPCE 2nd International Research Conference, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, UK
| 2015 | OMEP World Assembly University College Cork. Ireland. |
| 2014 | International Research Methods Summer School, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland. 6-June-2014 |
| 2013 | Writing and Educational Research: Methods and the generation of Knowledge Claim University College Cork, Ireland. |
| 2012 | Doctoral Symposium, University College Cork, Ireland. |
| 2011 | All-Ireland Doctoral Conference for Researchers in Education, University College Dublin |