Research Interests and Membership of Professional Bodies

• Urban geography; housing and town planning; suburbanisation; twentieth-century urban history; demography; tourism; heritage issues
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Member: Geographical Society of Ireland, Association of Geography Teachers of Ireland, Association of American Geographers, Urban History Group, International Planning History Society
• Member of An Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions.

Academic Activities 

• Head of Geography Department, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra
• Editor of Irish Geography, journal of the Geographical Society of Ireland.
• Former Editor of Geographical Viewpoint, journal of the AGTI, Vols. 30-37.
• Immediate past treasurer, Geographical Society of Ireland.
• Former External Examiner, NUI Galway

Recent Awards

• An Foras Feasa staff secondment, spring 2009.
• €3,500 Award for Innovation / Excellence in Teaching and Learning, 2006, in collaboration with Dr. Susan Hegarty, for 1st year practical geography programme combining face-to-face teaching and e-learning. 
• College Research Fellowship, 2006-7.

Courses Taught

• GEOG103 Geographical Skills
• GEOG105 Fieldwork
• GEOG202 Population and Migration Studies
• GEOG203 Geographical Research Methods
• GEOG211 Fieldwork
• GEOG306 Development of the City
• GEOG308 Fieldwork