Clare Gormley

Dr Clare Gormley is a Senior Academic Developer with Dublin City University (DCU) Teaching Enhancement Unit where she manages the academic development team and leads a range of professional development opportunities to support academics in developing, researching, and achieving recognition for their teaching practice. She has a particular interest in Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) and her doctoral research focuses on perceptions of CBL among those leading its implementation. A strong believer in the importance of professional recognition of teaching, Clare led the Advance HE Fellowship Supported Journey at DCU 2023-2025 and is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA) and a Fellow of SEDA (FSEDA).

Throughout her career in higher education, Clare has supported staff with curriculum design processes and encouraged the research and sharing of educational practice. Clare has facilitated multiple professional learning initiatives for the DCU Futures and ECIU projects to support staff with embedding CBL in teaching practice and is Chair of the DCU CBL Working Group.

Clare has published in a range of peer-reviewed publications on assessment, professional development, learning design, and the use of innovative technologies in teaching. She co-teaches introductory units on teaching principles and practices for new tutors/demonstrators and early career staff at DCU. She has co-led two successful staff hackathons and has been awarded funding for another staff hackathon in late 2026. In 2025, Clare was a member of the overall winning team awarded the ECIU Team Impact Award for a challenge involving Ireland's National Water Utility, Uisce Éireann. She has also been twice nominated for a DCU President's Award for supporting excellence in teaching. Clare is an active member of the leadership team of the SEDA Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SOTL) community of practice and contributes to the Educational Developers in Ireland Network (EDIN).