Ruadhán Jones
Mary Immaculate College (MIC) will lead a global initiative with the aim of making a “decisive contribution to the repositioning of Catholic education in Ireland” and globally, said one of the project leaders.
The Global Researchers in Catholic Education (GRACE) project will enable a new generation of Catholic educators at MIC to connect with top-level experts in Catholic education in the USA, Australia and the UK, Fr Eamonn Conway, head of Theology and Religious studies at MIC, told The Irish Catholic.
Fr Conway wants the project “to imagine a future for Catholic education in Ireland, to present a vision for that and hopefully this will contribute to the whole policies around divestment and so on, which at the moment are not working off solid research”.
The project is funded by the Presentation Sisters in Ireland, the All Hallows Trust and the Irish Jesuit Province, which will allow MIC to award six scholarships to researchers in Catholic education, as well as five bursaries to postgraduate students studying on the MA in Christian Leadership in Education.
The project was founded and led by Professor Eamonn Conway, along with Dr Eugene Duffy, lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, and Dr Daniel O’Connell, lecturer in the Department of Learning, Society, and Religious Education.
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