Dr
John
Lalor
Academic biography
Dr John Lalor is an Assistant Professor in the School of Policy & Practice in the Institute of Education, DCU. John is also Director of Research at DCU's Further Education and Training Research Centre (FETRC).
Research interests
John’s research interests are in the areas of Education for Democracy, Citizenship Education, and Further Education and Training.
He is currently DCU co-pi on the DEMOCRAT project (2023-2026) https://democrat-horizon.eu/, an EU Horizon funded project which aims to develop curricula for Education for Democracy (EfD) based on a framework of responsible democratic competences and to develop a toolbox to support the development of transformative EfD practices in the EU.
John was also the DCU lead researcher on the CITIDEV project https://citedev.eu/, a 3-year, EU Jean Monnet funded project which ran from 2021 to 2024 and which looked at how citizenship education in Europe could respond to some of the emerging threats to democratic societies.
John acted as a researcher on the En-Abilities project which developed tools aimed at encouraging autonomous language learning for adult students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) in Europe and in Ireland it provided support in learning English to promote the social inclusion of adults living in Direct Provision