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Faculties & Departments
Department of Education
Grace O Grady (On Leave)
B.A., H.Dip.Ed., H.Dip.SGC., M.Sc.
Education Department 
NUI Maynooth
Co Kildare
Ireland
Telephone: 01 708 3939
Facsimile: 01 708 4610
Email: grace.ogrady@nuim.ie
Grace O Grady is a lecturer in Education and Director of the Postgraduate Diploma in School Guidance and Counselling and Master of Education in Guidance and Counselling research year.
She teaches on topics related to Adolescent Identity, Personality Psychology and Communication Skills to the Postgraduate Diploma in Education and the Higher Diploma in Educational Management classes as well as Developmental Psychology, Psychometric Testing, Adolescent Counselling and Developmental Group Work on the Educational Guidance programmes.
Her areas of interest include:
- The Transforming Power of Creative Dialogue: The Dialogical Self
- Postmodern Critique of Adolescent Development
- Critical Psychology and Poststructural Theory
- Psychosynthesis and Psychosocial Relations
- Language and Discourse
- Developmental Programmes for Late Adolescents
Recent Presentations and Publications
'Dissertation as Rhizomatic Writing' Ph.D Symposium, Bristol University, July 17, 2008.
'Adolescent Development: Competing Discourses and Practices’
A 2-hour Seminar presentation at the Annual Guidance Conference, Kildare, 2008.
’Searching for the Elusive Epistemology: In Dialogue with Multiple Hailing Voices’
Education Research Colloquium, Department of Education, University of Oxford 2008.
‘A Creative Narrative Understanding of Identity’,
PhD Symposium, Graduate School of Education, Queen’s University, Belfast 2007.
‘The Developmental Tasks of Adolescence’
A presentation to teachers in Our Lady’s College, Greenhills, Drogheda, 2007.
‘Involvement of Guidance Service Users’
A workshop presentation, Guidance Policy Forums Transnational Conference, Bled, Slovenia 2006
'Developing a Masters Programme in Guidance and Counselling'
A Two Day Seminar in Riga, Latvia, 2006.
'Guidance and Counselling for the 21st Century'.
Paper presented to the Estonian / Bulgarian Delegation, NUI Maynooth, 2005.
'Guidance and Counsellor Education; a fluid negotable space'.
Paper presented to the Latvian Delegation, NUI Maynooth, 2005.
Reconstructing Adolescent Identities.
Celebrating Educational Research in ireland: Retrospect and Prospect.
Educational Studies Association of Ireland Conference, University College Cork, 2005.
Adolescence: The Story of Multiplicity and Unity, NCGE News, Spring Supplement, 2004
Forging a Path Through Multiplicity: A Critique of Adolescent Development, Conference on ‘Rethinking Young People’s Identities’, St Patrick’s College, DCU, Oct 15 – 16 2004.
'The Spiritual in Two Narratives of Youth',
Education Department, Tinity College, 2003.
Paper on same (forthcoming).
Other Memberships
Minister's appointee on the Management Committee of the National Centre for Guidance in Education.
Member of the National Guidance Policy Forum.
Directors of Guidance Counsellor Education National Centre for Guidance in Education.
Member of the Institute of Guidance Counsellors.