Dr Anna Logan is Associate  Professor and Interim Executive Dean at DCU Institute of Education having previously served as Deputy Dean, Chair of Professional Placement and Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning. In 2024, Anna was awarded the status of Principal Fellow of Advance HE (PFHEA). Between 2021 and 2023 she led the successful accreditation  by the Teaching Council of Ireland of all 12 of DCU’s initial teacher education programmes and was lead for teaching and learning in the ( 2023) faculty quality review. During the Covid-19 pandemic Anna led the pivot to online teaching and learning. Anna was Programme Chair of the Masters in Special Educational Needs from 2014 to 2020 during which time she led the transition of the programme from a face to face to a blended model of delivery.

At the IoE Anna has taught across seven undergraduate and postgraduate initial and continuing  teacher education programmes up to and including doctoral programmes.  Anna’s areas  of teaching interest include communication and language teaching and learning, inclusive curriculum and pedagogy, diversity and special and inclusive education and collaborative practice with a particular focus on teacher/assistant partnership.  She has supervised and/ or examined  35   masters and doctoral research dissertations. Anna  received the St. Patrick’s College President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2015 and was   nominated for the  DCU President's Awards for Teaching and Learning in 2021 and for the DCU Staff Recognition Awards in 2020. Prior to working in higher education, Anna spent almost twenty years working as a teacher in mainstream and special scho