Past Judges
All submissions to the Education Awards are judged by an independent panel of recognised and distinguished judges, the highest echelons of the third-level education sector in Ireland and abroad,
View a sample list of our past judges below and judge us by who judges you.
Declan Allen
Assistant Head, School of Management, College of Business, Technological University Dublin
Larry Banville
lecturer in Supply Chain Management, IT Carlow
Finneen Bradley
Careers Academy Manager & Deputy Head of Learner Services, North West Regional College
Prof. Louis Brennan
Trinity Business School
Dr. Robert Butler
Lecturer, Department of Economics, UCC
Dr. Matt Cotterell
Head of School of Mechanical, Electrical & Process Engineering, Munster Technological University, Cork
Dr. Patricia Cremen
Applied Social Studies, Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT)
Dr. Valerie Cummins
Senior Lecturer, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork
Prof. Willie Donnelly
President, Waterford Institute of Technology
Gerard O’Donovan
Head of the Faculty of Business and Humanities, Cork Institute of Technology
Stephen Easley-Walsh
Maths, Physics and ICT Lecturer
Robert Farrell
Senior Lecturer, Griffith College Dublin
Dr. Alan Fernihough
Queen’s Management School, Queens University Belfast
Seamus Fitzpatrick
Head of Business Faculty, Griffith College Dublin
Dr. Sheila Flanagan
Vice President for Academic Affairs & Registrar, Dundalk Institute of Technology
Professor Graham Heaslip
Head of School of Engineering, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
Dr. Kieran Hickey
Senior Lecturer & Head of the Department, Geography & Head of the School, Human Environment, University College Cork
Dr. Ingrid Hunt
Senior Educational Developer & Lecturer, Supply Chain Management, University of Limerick
Dr. Teresa Hurley
Former Head of School of Management, Technological University Dublin
Dr. Tomás Mac Eochagáin
Director of Academic Programmes, Griffith College
Donal McAlister
MBA International Affairs Manager, Institute of Technology Carlow
Dr. David McKevitt
Lecturer, Management, University College Cork
Aine McManus
Head of Faculty, Graduate Business School, Griffith College Dublin
Paul Mullally
Director, Education Lighthouse
Dr. Jane O’Keeffe
Director of Supply Chain, NMCI/CIT
Cllr Naoise Ó'Cearúil
Kildare County Council & KWETB
Gerard O'Donovan
Head of the Faculty of Business and Humanities, Munster Technological University, Cork Campus
Dr. Ciarán Ó hAnnracháin
Head of School of Tourism, Letterkenny Institute of Technology
James O'Malley
Maths Tutor, Maynooth University
Robert O'Neill
Director of IT, Hibernia College
Dr. Alison Porter-Armstrong
Senior Lecturer Rehabilitation Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Ulster University
Elaine Rea
International Marketing Manager, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, NUI Galway
Dr. Seán Rowland
Founder & President, Hibernia College
Dr. Penpatra Sripaiboonkij
Lecturer/Assistant Professor, University College Dublin
Prof. John Sweeney
Emeritus, ICARUS Research Centre, Maynooth University
Dr. Shelagh Waddington
Emeritus Lecturer, Geography Department, Maynooth University
Dr. Ciarán Ó hAnnracháin
Project Manager, LYIT CUA (Technological University)