Professor of STEM Education and Director of EPI•STEM
Professor Geraldine Mooney Simmie is Professor of STEM Education and Director of EPI•STEM The National Centre of STEM Education located in the School of Education at the University of Limerick. Professor Mooney Simmie is an expert researcher with the European Commission conducting a scoping literature review for Horizon Europe with researchers across Europe in relation to how education and STEM education can secure a fair and just green and digital transition into the future.
Prof Mooney Simmie’s research excellence lies in Critical and Feminist Curriculum & Policy Studies in general education and in STEAM education, in relation to the topic of emancipatory teaching, teacher learning, and research. Key questions include where to draw the line between the relational journey of human change as an emerging subject at the heart of a holistic education, and as a subject with agency and responsibility for a caring and just democracy, a thriving economy and a sustainable planet. Geraldine’s CV (click here) shows how her 30+ journal articles, five books and ten book chapters interrogate and offer alternative theorisations of this multifaceted and complex construct drawing from critical and feminist philosophical and sociological perspectives.
Geraldine was a transnational partner in four European Commission Comenius 2.1 teacher education projects involving science and math teachers in border-crossing partnerships. Geraldine began her career as a physics and mathematics teacher in the Jesuit secondary school in Galway, Coláiste Iognáid S.J. Geraldine was a member of the Transition Year Support Team, supporting teachers across the curriculum in schools in the west of Ireland. Geraldine graduated from Trinity College Dublin (PhD in Comparative Education) and from the University of Galway (M.Sc., B.Sc., H.D.E).
