Dr 脥de O Sullivan is a Senior Educational Developer at the Centre for Transformative Learning, where she is Curriculum Development Support Lead. In this role of Curriculum Development Support, 脥de will lead on the development of a curriculum development framework for UL in close collaboration with the Associate Vice President Academic Quality and Regulations, Associate Vice President Student Engagement and the Associate Deans Academic Affairs and Graduate and; Professional Studies. 脥de teaches Curriculum Design on and leads three scholarship modules on the Graduate Diploma in Teaching, Learning and Scholarship in Higher Education. She also works with academic staff on the development of their professional writing for publication. From 2007 to 2019, 脥de co-directed the Regional Writing Centre where she led the design, delivery and evaluation of writing-support interventions at UL, grounding writing centre initiatives in good practice and sound theory. She is a founding member and co-chair of the Irish Network for the Enhancement of Writing (INEW). She is the elected chair of the executive committee of the Educational Developers in Ireland Network (EDIN) and a Senior Fellow of the Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA). Her current research focuses on curriculum design, professional development of academic staff, writing transfer, institutional work of writing centres, and adapting academic writing development to particular national contexts. Other areas of interest include writing pedagogy, writerly identity, writing assessment, second language acquisition research and the development of new literacies.
O鈥橞rien, E., Moore, G., Costelloe, L. and O鈥橲ullivan, 脥. (2023) 鈥楶rofessional development practices and preferences in Irish Higher Education: insights from a regional survey鈥, International Journal of Academic Development, 28(3), 240-257, DOI:
Holmes, A.J., Yancey, K.B., Hart, D.A., O鈥橲ullivan, 脥. and Sinha, Y. (2022) 鈥楲ifewide writing across the curriculum: Valuing students鈥 multiple writing lives beyond the university鈥, The WAC Journal, 33: 32-61. DOI: 10.37514/WAC-J.2022.33.1.02
Yancey, K., Hart, A., Holmes, A., Knutson, A., O鈥橲ullivan, 脥. and Sinha, Y. (2022) 鈥楾here is a lot of overlap鈥: tracing writing development across spheres of writing, in Bleakney, J., Moore, J. and Rosinski, P. (eds) Writing Beyond the University: Preparing Lifelong Learners for Lifewide Writing, Elon, NC: Elon University Center for Engaged Learning, pp. 74-90, .
O鈥橲ullivan, 脥., Hart, A. Holmes, A., Knutson, A., Sinha,Y. and Yancey, K. (2022) 鈥楳ultiple Forms of Representation鈥, Composition Forum, 49 (Summer 2022),
O鈥橳oole, S., O鈥橲ullivan, 脥., O鈥橞rien, E. and Costelloe, L (2022) 鈥楩rom nice to know to 鈥渘ewfound popularity鈥: academic developers鈥 perceptions of how COVID-19 has changed their role, International Journal for Academic Development, 27(2): 207-211. DOI:
O鈥橰iordan, F., O'Sullivan, 脥., Fitzpatrick, M., Keane, M. McAvinia, C. and Risquez, A. (2022) 鈥楽tructured professional development for academic developers: a collaborative approach鈥, Innovations in Teaching and Learning International, 59(1): 4-14, DOI:
Keane, M., McAvinia, C. and O鈥橲ullivan, 脥. (eds) (2021) Emerging Issues IV: Changing Times, Changing Contexts. Educational Developers in Ireland Network (EDIN):
Gormley, C., Keane, M., O鈥橲ullivan, 脥. McAvinia, C. and Fitzpatrick, M. (2021) 鈥楽how me the impact! A practical online tool (EDIN Impact Analysis Tool) for evidencing the impact of academic development work鈥 in Keane, M., McAvinia, C. and O鈥橲ullivan, 脥. (eds) Emerging Issues IV: Changing Times, Changing Contexts. Educational Developers in Ireland Network (EDIN): .
Girgensohn, K., Eriksson, A-M., O鈥橲ullivan, 脥. and Henry, G. (2020) 鈥楢 cross鈥恘ational view on the organisational perspective of writing centre work: the Writing Centre Exchange Project (WCEP)鈥. Journal of Academic Writing, 10(1): 1-13.
Costelloe, L., Nerantzi, C., O鈥橞rien, E., Reale, J. and O鈥橲ullivan, 脥. (2020) 'Development of a shared vision for flexible inter-institutional professional development using the OOFAT model', International Journal of Management and Applied Research, 7(3): 240-256.
O鈥橲ullivan, 脥., Dobravac, G., Farrell, A., Kacmarova, A., and Leijen, D. (eds) (2020) Centralised Support for Writing, Research, Learning and Teaching: Case Studies of Existing Models across Europe, [pdf]. COST Action 15221: We ReLaTe. Available at: