Maria Barry is a teacher educator and researcher in history and citizenship education in DCU's Institute of Education. She is a qualified post primary teacher and has extensive experience of working across both primary and post primary settings in the areas of curriculum development, human rights programmes for young people and teacher education. Maria worked in Trócaire's development education team from 2002-2014 and managed the organisation's team, strategy, funding, programmes and research development in the area between 2007 and 2014.
In 2014, Maria was awarded a PhD fellowship from the Centre for Human Rights & Citizenship Education. The focus of her doctoral studies is global citizenship education teaching and learning practices in post primary schools. Other scholarly interests include; dialogue and discussion in the classroom, student voices and participation, teacher education, climate change education and social justice pedagogy.
Collaboration and partnership with others has always been a strong dimension of Maria's work. She has served on a number of Boards and committees in the area of history education and development education over 15 years. She is also a member of the Ubuntu network and is a former chair of IDEA. Maria has worked in partnership with organisations at a European and international level and has travelled in a professional capacity to many countries including Slovenia, Kenya, Guatemala and Ethiopia.
Maria is a member of the Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education in DCU's Institute of Education.