Dr Laura Costelloe
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Dr Laura Costelloe is an Assistant Professor in Academic Practice at the Learning Enhancement and Academic Development (LEAD) Centre at 91制片厂, having previously held positions as an academic developer, lecturer and tutor at Dublin City University, National College of Ireland, University of Limerick and Universit茅 d鈥橝vignon, France. She supports the continuing development and professional practice of colleagues from across the institution and offers expertise and teaching across a range of professional development initiatives designed to enhance institutional learning and teaching practice. She is also the programme co-ordinator for the Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice, represents 91制片厂 at the Mid-West Regional Teaching & Learning Taskforce and is a member of the National Academic Integrity Network (NAIN).
Publications and Conference Papers
Costelloe, L. (2023) 'Case study - Building on your strengths: bringing it all together with an eportfolio' in Rossi, V., ed., Inclusive Learning Design in Higher Education: a practical guide to creating equitable learning experiences, Oxon: Routledge, 267-269.
Costelloe, L. (2023) 'Using the Universal Design for Learning framework to enhance student engagement with feedback', presented at Assessment in Higher Education Conference, Manchester, June 22 and 23.
Costelloe, L. and Reale, J. (2023) 'Creating a UDL ecosystem within an accredited professional development programme for higher education teachers', presented at UDL International Symposium: Learning Together, Maynooth, June 8 and 9.
Costelloe, L. and Reale, J. (2023) 鈥楨mbedding UDL into the Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice in 91制片厂鈥 AHEAD 2023 Conference: How staff and learner communities drive inclusion, Dublin, March 22nd-23rd [poster presentation]
Costelloe, L. and Reale, J. (2022) 鈥楨mbedding UDL into an accredited professional development programme for Higher Education teachers鈥 Quality and Qualifications Ireland 10th Anniversary Conference, Dublin, October 18-19th [poster presentation].
Costelloe, L. and Egan, A. (2022) 鈥楶roposing a model for the incremental development of peer assessment and feedback skills: a case study鈥, Assessment in Higher Education Conference 2022, Manchester, June 22nd-24th.
O'Toole, S., O'Sullivan, I., O'Brien, E. and Costelloe, L. (2022) 鈥楩rom nice to know to 鈥渘ewfound popularity鈥: academic developers鈥 perceptions of how COVID-19 has changed their role鈥, International Journal for Academic Development
Costelloe, L. (2022) 鈥楨xploring the potential of digital teaching portfolios to support in/non-formal professional development for those who teach in Higher Education鈥, EdTech 2022, Cork, May 26th-27th.
Costelloe, L. and Reale, J. (2022) 鈥楧eveloping a flexible, online and practice-based accredited programme in academic practice鈥, EdTech 2022, Cork, May 26th-27th.
O'Brien, E., Moore, G., Costelloe, L. and O'Sullivan, I. (2022) 'Professional development practices and preferences in Irish Higher Education: insights from a regional survey', International Journal for Academic Development.
Costelloe, L. and Reale, J. (2021) 'No Walls, No Limits? Universal Design for Learning in the new landscape of Higher Education' in Keane, M., McAvinia, C. and O'Sullivan, I., eds., Emerging Issues IV: Changing Times, Changing Context, EDIN, available: .
Costelloe, L. (2021) 鈥楨xploring the potential of digital teaching portfolios to support in/non-formal professional development for those who teach in Higher Education鈥, Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, 6(1): 1-13.
Costelloe, L., Nerantzi, C., O鈥橞rien, E., Reale, J. and O鈥橲ullivan, I. (2020) 鈥楧evelopment of a shared vision for flexible inter-institutional professional development using the OOFAT&苍产蝉辫;尘辞诲别濒鈥,&苍产蝉辫;International Journal of Management and Applied Research, 7(3): 240-256. [Journal Impact Factor: 2.791]
Costelloe, L., Fitzgerald, M. and Fitzpatrick, M. (2020) 鈥楨xploring conceptions of flexibility and openness to support professional development for Higher Education academic practice, Educational Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, 3-5 September 2020.
Costelloe, L. and Egan, A. (2020) 鈥淏ecause, as a teacher, giving feedback and assessment is actually really difficult鈥: using self- and peer-assessment to develop Higher Education teachers鈥 skills in assessment and feedback鈥, Proceedings of Higher Education Advances Conference, Editorial Universitat Politecnica de Valencia: 501-508. DOI:
Costelloe, L. and Egan, A. (2020) 鈥淏ecause, as a teacher, giving feedback and assessment is actually realy difficult鈥: using self- and peer-assessment to develop Higher Education teachers鈥 skills in assessment and feedback鈥, Higher Education Advances Conference (HEAdConf), Online, June 1st-4th.
Costelloe, L., Gormley, C. and O鈥橰iordan, F. (2019) 鈥榃alking the Talk: academic developers reflect on the use of digital learning portfolios to support professional development鈥, Educational Developments, 20(4): 11-13.
Costelloe, L. (2019) 鈥楨mbedding self- and peer-assessment in an undergraduate generic skills module鈥, International Conference on Engaging Pedagogy (ICEP), Limerick, December 12th-13th.
O鈥橰iordan, F., Gormley, C. and Costelloe, L. (2019) 鈥楻eflections on the use of electronic portfolios to support professional development鈥, World Conference on Online Learning, Dublin, November 4th-7th.
O鈥橞rien, E., Ryan, A., Moore, G., Phelan, M., Reale, J., Costelloe, L. (2019) Micro learning: an alternative model of academic professional development, EdTech, Dundalk Institute of Technology,May 24th and 25th.
Glynn, M., Costelloe, L. and Gormley, C. (2018) 鈥楢ssessment - evaluating the workload on staff and students鈥, International Assessment in Higher Education Conference, Manchester, June 28th 2018.
Gormley, C., Costelloe, L., Glynn, M. (2018) 'What鈥檚 wrong with this picture? Visualising the reality of student and staff assessment workloads', AILTA: All Ireland Conference on Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Further and Higher Education, Dublin, 30th October 2018.
O鈥橰iordan, F., Costelloe, L. and Glynn, M. (2018) 鈥楢cademic Integrity and Moodle鈥, EdTech, IT Carlow, May 30th and 31st.
O鈥橰iordan, F., Costelloe, L. and Gormley, C. (2018) 鈥楻eflections on the use of ePortfolios to support professional development: the academic developer perspective鈥, EdTech, IT Carlow, May 30th and 31st.
Brown, M., Nic Giolla Mhich铆l, M. and Costelloe, L. (2018) 鈥楧eveloping a European maturity model for blended education: a research work in progress鈥, EdTech, IT Carlow, May 30th and 31st.
Costelloe, L., Glynn, M. and Gormley, C. (2018) 鈥楳ore than the metrics - our deep dive into assessment workload鈥, SEDA Spring Teaching and Learning Conference, Leeds, May 10th-11th 2018.
Costelloe, L. and Doyle, C. (2018) 鈥楾he student voice: statistics and gamification鈥, DSTEP Gamification Winter School, Dublin City University, January 22nd-26th 2018.
Costelloe, L. (2018) 鈥Libert茅, 茅galit茅, Mbapp茅: French football and the banlieues鈥, RTE Brainstorm. Available at: .
Costelloe, L. (2018) 鈥楾he French banlieues: plus 隇攁 change, plus c鈥檈st la meme chose鈥, RTE Brainstorm. Available at: .
Egan, A. and Costelloe, L. (2017) 鈥楥ase Study J: Assessment for all鈥, Enhancing Programme Approaches to Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education: case studies, commentaries and tools. Available at: .
Egan, A. and Costelloe, L. (2016) 鈥楶eer assessment of, for and as learning: a core component of an accredited professional development course for Higher Education teachers鈥, AISHE-J, 8(3): 2931-29313.
Costelloe, L. and Egan, A. (2016) 鈥楶eer assessment of, for and as learning: a core component of an accredited professional development course for Higher Education teachers鈥, SLL/LIN Symposium, Dublin, October 27th 2016.
Costelloe, L. (2016) 鈥榃hat鈥檚 it all about? A discourse analysis of 2016 general election manifestos on early years care and education鈥, Early Childhood Ireland Research and Practice Seminar, April 15th 2016.
Costelloe, L. and Egan, A. (2016) 鈥楧eveloping learning skills and dispositions among early years educators鈥 Early Childhood Ireland Research and Practice Seminar, April 15th 2016.
Costelloe, L. (2015) 鈥Charlie Hebdo and the legacy of the eternal outsider鈥, Irish Independent, February 18th.
O鈥機onnor, A. and Costelloe, L. (2015) 鈥楧eveloping self-regulated learners?: examining theories that underpin transitional 鈥榣earning to learn鈥 modules in Irish 3rd level institutions鈥, Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI) Conference, Maynooth University, April 9th 鈥 11th 2015.
Costelloe, L. (2014) 'Discourses of sameness: expressions of nationalism in newspaper discourse on French urban violence in 2005', Discourse & Society, 25(3), 315-340.
Costelloe, L. (2014) 鈥楧ocumenting the experiences of student leaders in a Peer-Assisted Learning scheme鈥, Confederation of Student Services in Ireland (CSSI) Conference, 91制片厂, Limerick, June 19th 2014.
Costelloe, L. (2013) 'A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of representations of young people (les jeunes) in newspaper discourse on French urban violence in 2005', Newcastle Critical Discourse Group, November 2013.
Costelloe, L. (2013) 鈥楥ombining Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics to examine representations of young people in newspaper discourse on French urban violence in 2005鈥, Communities at the Periphery Conference, Institut Fran莽ais, London, April 13th-14th 2013.
Costelloe, L. (2012), 鈥楧iscourses of sameness and difference: national identity in newspaper representations of French urban violence鈥, CALS (Centre for Applied Language Studies) Postgraduate Seminar, University of Limerick, December 7th 2012.
Costelloe, L. (2012), 鈥楩inding the agent: questions of blame in newspaper representations of French urban violence in 2005鈥, Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies Conference (CADS), University of Bologna, Italy, September 13th-14th 2012.
Costelloe, L. (2012) 鈥楴ewspaper discourse on French urban violence: a critical discourse analysis鈥 CADAAD (Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines) Conference, Universidad de Minho, Braga, Portugal July 4th 鈥 6th 2012.
Costelloe, L. (2011) 鈥楾owards a theory and framework of contextualisation: media discourse on French urban violence鈥, 4th International 鈥楲anguage in the Media鈥 Conference, University of Limerick, June 4th 鈥 6th 2011.
Costelloe, L. (2010) 鈥楥DA as an approach to understanding society: a discussion of related literature鈥, Irish Social Sciences Platform Annual Conference, University of Limerick, December 3rd 2010.
Costelloe, L. (2010) 鈥楢nalysing media discourse on French urban violence using Critical Discourse Analysis: tackling the issue of context鈥, Irish Association of Applied Linguistics Postgraduate Symposium, University of Limerick, October 2010.
Costelloe, L. (2010) 鈥極verview of doctoral research鈥, Centre for Applied Language Studies Research Day, University of Limerick, May 2010.
Costelloe, L. (2010) 鈥楳edia discourse on French urban violence: tackling the issue of context鈥, SS18 (Sociolinguistics Symposium), University of Southampton, September 2010.
