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Biography

Richard Coady is an Assistant Head of Department within the Department of Education in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning. His managerial responsibilities are within the SETU Music School, working alongside the academic and administrative staff there in continuing the over forty year tradition of quality music education within SETU (Waterford). Additionally, he is the Programme Leader for the MA in Management in Education course working with future education leaders and managers.

Having completed a BA (Hons) in Music at the former WIT and a Masters in Education degree in TCD, Richard completed his doctoral studies in the Instiute of Education, DCU investigating teachers’ experiences of the National Children’s Choir programme. The research highlighted the impact of teachers’ previous experiences and values on their curriculum, while the study also uncovered the positive and problematic dimensions of participation in education for teachers, learners and policy makers. Richard is also a qualiifed primary school teacher having taught for eight years in a vertical primary school in Drumcondra.

His main research interests include arts education, assessment in education, teacher identity and learning, and fostering inclusion in education.

Richard has a range of experience working across all levels in education. Prior to working in SETU, Richard lectured at Marino Institute of Education, lecturing on the undergraduate and postgraduate initial teacher education programmes in primary education. He is a qualified primary school teacher and has also worked as a secondary school music teacher. He is a trained Droichead PST member and has worked alongside newly qualified and sudent-teachers for many years. 

At SETU, Richard lectures on the Teacher Education (TEQ) programmes in addition to supervising students’ research dissertations within the Department.

  • 2023, Teacher Participation in the National Children’s Choir: Singing for the many? (Presentation), SETU School of Education and Lifelong Learning Doctoral Research Seminar
  • 2022, Teacher Participation in the National Children's Choir: An Interpretive Study [PhD Thesis], Dublin City University.
  • 2021, The Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Music During Covid-19 (Webinar) Teacher Education Series, Tralee Education Centre/Marino Institute of Education.
  • 2021, Teacher Identity within the National Children’s Choir (Paper Presentation), Society of Music Education of Ireland Conference, TU Dublin
  • 2021, The Qualitative Researcher (Paper Presentation), Institute of Education Research Conversations Series, DCU
  • 2021, Habitus, Capital and Context: Teachers’ Experience of the National Children’s Choir (Paper Presentation), ATEE: Research in Teacher Education Conference,  Loránd University, Budapest.
  • 2011, How best to assess Junior Certificate Music? [Masters Thesis], Trinity College Dublin.