Dear all
As I wrote previously, there are some significant changes occurring within
the project team at Trinity for both professional and personal reasons. At
the time I was unable to elaborate but I am now pleased to inform you of
the following:
*New adventures:*
*Shayla Walsh* has been offered a fantastic new role as a teacher in New
York. On behalf of the whole ExtenDT2 team, I would like to thank Shayla
for her fantastic work over the past year. In particular she has been
instrumental in the work on the SLRs and development of the school surveys.
Going forward,* the TCD team request that she is suitably acknowledges in
all publications using the surveys for school students in years 2 & 3*. She
will be greatly missed by the TCD team but understand that for personal
reasons she has made the decision to leave. We wish her all the best in her
new role - your new students and colleagues in New York are very lucky to
have you Shayla!
*Dr Carina Girvan* will be leaving TCD on the 22nd August, having been
offered the exciting new role of COO of the charity iScoil. iScoil provides
online and blended education to young people across Ireland between the
ages of 13 and 16 who (for a wide range of reasons) are unable to attend
school. She will continue to collaborate with Jake and other ExtenDT2
project team members on publications resulting from years 1 and 2 of the
project, as well as the surveys developed for years 2 & 3. Thus *the TCD
team request that she is suitably acknowledged in all publications using
the school and PD surveys in years 1-3.*
*Dr Jake Byrne* will be remaining at TCD but is now the TCD Director of
CHARM (University Alliance) - congratulations Jake! This will be a very
intensive new role starting in September but Jake will find the time
take-over from Carina as the local lead for ExtenDT2.
*New team members:*
*Learnovate* <https://www.learnovatecentre.org/>will be joining the
ExtenDT2 team to support Jake and you may meet various people from the
Learnovate Centre at the upcoming project meeting. The team have expertise
in 21st C skills as well as Design Thinking and have been involved in
numerous EU and nationally funded research projects. This is an excellent
team whose expertise and experience will be a great asset to the project.
Note: They are the same legal entity as TCD. The main point of contact at
this stage is *Deirdre Green* (cc'ed) and she will introduce other members
of her team at the project meeting in September/October.
*Bhavya Shrivastava* is a PhD candidate in Economics who is supporting us
in the summer transitional period and completion of D7.2. We hope she will
be able to join the project meeting in TCD and *request that she is
suitably acknowledged in all publications linked to the survey analysis at
project level for year 2 and survey validation for year 3.*
*Communication going forward:*
- Due to the changes, from now until the 22nd of August, please ensure
that your teams include both myself and Jake in all communications.
- Any queries for Shayla should be sent to myself and Jake.
- Following my departure from TCD, I will be available to respond to
queries about work completed - please use carina.girvan(a)gmail.com. All
other queries should be sent to Jake.
- Project meeting queries should be sent to Deirdre and Jake.
- Please note that we are in the early stages of transition and August
is holiday time here, so there may be a delay to replies.
*Publications:*
- As mentioned above, I will continue to collaborate with project team
members to produce publications from the year 1 and 2 evaluations, as well
as the surveys developed for years 2 & 3. All communications regarding
publications should be sent to me at carina.girvan(a)gmail.com
- Shayla is also keen to collaborate on publications as she hopes to
return to academia in the future. Invitations to participate in
publications should be sent to her at shayla.walsh17(a)gmail.com
- As a PhD candidate, it is important for Bhavya to be invited to
participate in relevant publications. Any such invitations should be sent
to her at shrivasb(a)tcd.ie
- *All intentions to use any TCD work product in publications* should be
communicated to Jake at the manuscript preparation stage, so that
appropriate authorship and acknowledgements can be discerned.
*Deliverable 7.2*
I am currently compiling D7.2 with the aim of having a complete draft
before my departure. For this reason can I remind everyone that the *case
study reports are due by the 9th August* at the latest, as communicated
back in March. I would greatly appreciate any that are completed before
that date to be sent to me as soon as possible.
*Reviewer needed - *We currently only have one proposed reviewer (Sofia)
for D7.2. Can someone volunteer to be the second reviewer and update the
spreadsheet, please? We expect to have the deliverable ready for review by
the middle/end of August.
Finally, I would like to wish the whole ExtenDT2 project team the best of
luck in the final year of the project. I'm very sorry not to be able to be
part of the final year with all the exciting developments but look forward
to hearing all about your every success. Hopefully I can join you for a
drink when you are in Dublin.
All the best,
Carina
