Our Team
The DICE Team
The partners in the DICE Project are four third level educational institutions and they all are represented in the DICE Team by a lecturer from the respective educational institution. A Project Coordinator is taking care of the day-to-day operation of the DICE Project.
The DICE Team implements the Strategic Plan through activities and programmes, providing information for Irish Aid reports and the CHOICE Group. They also contribute to submissions made by DICE and inform future strategic plans.
Within each institution, other colleagues form a community of practice that supports the work of DICE. Together with the DICE Lecturer they integrate development and intercultural education in each institution.
Dr. Aoife Titley
Dr. Aoife Titley is the lecturer in Development and Intercultural Education (DICE) in the Froebel Department. Before becoming a teacher educator, she worked as an education researcher and a post-primary teacher. Her research in the community and voluntary sector includes projects for organisations such as the Irish Traveller Movement, Africa Centre, Debt and Development Coalition, Poetry Ireland, Carlow County Development Partnership, and Extern Ireland/HSE.
She has also contributed to the design and development of numerous publications for primary schools, including work for Amnesty International Ireland and the Moral Education Curriculum of the United Arab Emirates (Pearson).
Aoife holds a PhD from Dublin City University (DCU), where her research focused on the real and perceived barriers to initial teacher education for young people from minoritized ethnic backgrounds, using a critical participatory action research framework. Her other research interests include international service learning (sending programmes) and social activism in primary schools.
Dr. Barbara O'Toole
Senior lecturer in education at Marino Institute of Education, where she lectures in intercultural education and global justice education. Barbara is a director of Lóchrann, the centre for intercultural education at MIE, director of the Master in Education Studies (Intercultural Learning and Leadership), and course leader for the PME programme. Barbara is co-editor of the recent Routledge publication: Challenging perceptions of Africa in schools – Critical approaches to global justice education, with Ebun Joseph and David Nyaluke.
Dr. Brighid Golden
Dr. Brighid Golden is a lecturer in Global Education at Mary Immaculate College. Brighid is a qualified primary school teacher with experience working in Ireland, England, and India. Brighid holds a Master’s degree in International Approaches to Education with International Development from the University of Birmingham, where she researched whole-school approaches to global citizenship education at primary level.
She has also designed and developed teaching resources for both primary and post-primary settings, particularly in the area of human rights education.
Brighid recently completed her PhD, entitled *‘Critical Global Learning: Lessons from a Self-study Action Research Project in Initial Teacher Education in Ireland’*, which explores transformative approaches to global learning in teacher education.
Dr. Benjamin Mallon
Dr Benjamin Mallon is Assistant Professor in Geography Education at the Institute of Education, Dublin City University. He coordinates and teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, with a focus on geography, environmental and outdoor education, global citizenship, and children’s rights. His teaching and research centre on participatory and enquiry-based approaches to sustainability education, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and conflict.
Ben is co-director of the DCU Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education and a member of the DCU Centre for Climate and Society. He supervises postgraduate and doctoral research in sustainability, democracy, and global citizenship education. He has published widely in these areas, including co-editing two Routledge books on human rights and social justice education.
Ben is co-PI on the DEMOCRAT Project, which explores education for democracy across Europe. He also contributes to national and international initiatives, including the Irish Children’s and Young People’s Assembly on Biodiversity Loss and the Office of Climate Education.
