Prof
Hugh
Gash
Academic biography
Academic biography
Hugh Gash obtained his doctorate at State University at Buffalo in 1974. He was a post-doc. at the University of Georgia with Charles Smock and then worked at St. Patrick’s College Dublin until 2010. He has published extensively on applications of constructivism, details on his work are shown on https://sites.google.com/dcu.ie/hughgashwebpage
He was awarded the title of Emeritus Associate Professor by DCU Governing Body in June 2017. He was a Fellow of the Irish Psychological Society and is an Emeritus Member of the Society for Research in Child Development. He is on the editorial board of Constructivist Foundations https://constructivist.info/index.shtml
Some Recent Publications:
Nescolarde-Selva, J.A., Segura-Abad, L. & Gash, H. (2025) Gabriel Ciscar y Ciscar and the Decimal Metric System. Foundations of Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-025-10022-3
Gash, H. (2023) Socio-political risk management: Psychological aspects. In Engemann, K. J., Lavery, C.F. & Sheehan, J.M. (Eds.) (Ed.). Socio-political risk management. (pp. 19-33). Berlin: De Gruyter.
Research interests
I have published in the areas of attitude change, aspects of self perception including a series of papers on young people's heroes, and more broadly on constructivist approches to education. At present I work on the editorial board of the journal Constructivist Foundations, reviewing and contributing to the journal.