Dr Fergal Finnegan
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Senior Lecturer
Associate Professor
Biography
Book
Year | Publication | |
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2017 | Fleming T.;Loxley A.;Finnegan F. (2017) Access and participation in Irish Higher Education. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] |
Edited Book
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Fergal Finnegan, Peter Lavender & Alan Tuckett (Ed.). (2021) Paulo Freire centenary. Melbourne: Adult learning Australia, | |
2021 | McCrea, N, Finnegan, F. & Ní Chasaide, N (Ed.). (2021) Community development and financialization: making the connections. Oxford: Oxford University Press, [Link] | |
2021 | Marcella Milana, Martin Kopecký and Fergal Finnegan (Ed.). (2021) Capitalism(s) and the future of adult education policy. 2021 12(1): 1-122: uropean Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, | |
2020 | Finnegan, Fergal & Grummell, Bernie (Ed.). (2020) Power and possibility: Adult Education in a Diverse and Complex world. Rotterdam: Sense/Brill, [Link] | |
2020 | Grummell, Bernie & Finnegan, Fergal (Ed.). (2020) Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education. Rotterdam: Sense/Brill, | |
2019 | Mc Crea, Niamh & Finnegan, F (Ed.). (2019) Funding, power and community development. Bristol: Policy Press, | |
2019 | Fleming, Ted, Kokkos, Alexis & Finnegan, Fergal (Ed.). (2019) European Perspectives on Transformation Theory. London: Palgrave Macmillan, [Link] | |
2014 | Finnegan, F, Merrill, B & Thunborg, C (Ed.). (2014) Student voices on inequalities in European higher education: Challenges for theory, policy and practice in a time of change. London: Routledge, [DOI] |
Book Chapter
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Finnegan, F., (2022) 'The pulse of freedom and transformative learning: Winding paths, blind alleys and new horizons' In: Palgrave Handbook on Learning for Transformation. London : Palgrave. | |
2022 | Finnegan, F., (2022) 'Living theory in transforming times' In: Transformation Theory and Praxis: New perspectives and possibilities. London : Routledge. | |
2022 | Finnegan, F., (2022) 'Migration and Transformative Adult Education: Reflections on complexity, criticality and counter-publics in the age of superdiversity' In: Adult Learning in a Migration Society. London : Routledge. | |
2022 | Luraschi, S. & Finnegan, F. (2022) 'A dialogue on migration, critical auto/biographical research and transformative education' In: Adult Learning in a Migration Society. London : Routledge. | |
2021 | Finnegan, F., (2021) 'Some reflections on the meaning, limits and challenges of critical biographical research' In: An Ecology of Life: Discourses, dialogue and diversity in biographical research. Rotterdamm : Brill./Sense. | |
2021 | Loxley, A. & Finnegan, F. (2021) 'Irish Travellers and Higher Education' In: Marginalised Communities in Higher Education: International Perspectives. London : Routledge. | |
2020 | Finnegan, Fergal & Grummell, Bernie (2020) 'Power and possibility in adult education: Reflecting on old themes in new times' In: Power and Possibility: Adult education in a complex and diverse world. leiden : Sense/Brill. | |
2020 | O'Neill, J. & Finnegan, F. (2020) 'Spalpeens on the Isle of Wonders: Reflections on work, power and collective resistance in Irish Further Education' In: Caliban’s Dance: FE after the Tempest. London : UCL/IOE Press and Trentham Books. | |
2017 | Fleming T.;Loxley A.;Finnegan F. (2017) 'Introduction' In: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education. London : Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] | |
2020 | Grummell, Bernie & Finnegan, F. (2020) 'Criticality and creativity in research in Adult Education' In: Doing critical and creative adult education research. Leiden : Sense/Brill. | |
2019 | Finnegan, F (2019) 'Moving against and beyond neoliberal higher education in Ireland' In: Resisting neoliberalism in Education: Local, national and transnational perspectives. Bristol : Policy Press. | |
2019 | Finnegan, F & McCrea, N (2019) 'Funding, power and community development: an introduction' In: Funding, power and community development. Bristol : Policy Press. | |
2019 | Kokkos, A., Fleming, T. & Finnegan, f. (2019) 'Introduction' In: European Perspectives on Transformation theory. London : Palgrave Macmillan. | |
2019 | Fleming T., Kokkos, A. & Finnegan F. (2019) 'Context and Development of Transformation Theory in the European Field of Adult Education' In: European Perspectives on Transformation theory. London : Palgrave Macmillan. | |
2019 | Finnegan, F (2019) '‘Freedom Is a Very Fine Thing’: Individual and Collective Forms of Emancipation in Transformative Learning' In: European Perspectives on Transformation theory. London : Palgrave Macmillan. | |
2019 | Fleming T., Kokkos, A. & Finnegan F. (2019) 'Conclusions, Comparisons and Directions for Future Study' In: European Perspectives on Transformation theory. London : Palgrave Macmillan. | |
2018 | O’Neill, J., Merrill, B., Finnegan, F. & Revers, S. (2018) 'Intersecção das desigualdades no ensino superior: teorização de classe e género através de uma perspetiva feminista e o olhar de Bourdieu' In: Estudantes Não-tradicionais no Ensino Superior. Coimbra : CINEP. | |
2017 | Finnegan, F. (2017) 'Under the sovereign’s baleful gaze: Policy, practice and the making of Irish FET' In: The Principal: Power and Professionalism in Further Education. London : Institute of Education Press. | |
2017 | Fleming T., Finnegan F. & Loxley A. (2017) 'Introduction: Trends, policies, processes and practices' In: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education. London : Palgrave Macmillan. | |
2017 | Fleming T.;Loxley A.;Finnegan F. (2017) 'Key trends in Irish Higher Education and the emergence and development of access' In: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education. [DOI] | |
2017 | Loxley A.;Finnegan F.;Fleming T. (2017) 'Access and widening participation - stories from the policy domain' In: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education. [DOI] | |
2017 | Loxley A.;Finnegan F.;Fleming T. (2017) 'Routes in: Access categories, mechanisms and processes' In: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education. [DOI] | |
2017 | Finnegan F.;Fleming T.;Loxley A. (2017) 'The purpose of access: Equality, social mobility and the knowledge economy' In: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education. [DOI] | |
2017 | Finnegan F. (2017) 'Working class access to higher education: Structures, experiences and categories' In: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education. [DOI] | |
2017 | Loxley A.;Fleming T.;Finnegan F. (2017) 'Learning and teaching and non-traditional students in higher education' In: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education. [DOI] | |
2017 | Fleming T., Finnegan F. & Loxley A. (2017) 'Retention in Ireland's Higher Education Institutions' In: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education. London : Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] | |
2017 | Fleming T.;Finnegan F.;Loxley A. (2017) 'Towards a conclusion' In: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education. [DOI] | |
2016 | Finnegan, F (2016) 'Let's get critical: Biographical research and critical realism' In: Now, Before and After Narrative Research. Magdeburg : Nisba Verlag. | |
2014 | Finnegan, F., Merrill, B. & Thunborg C. (2014) 'Introduction' In: Student Voices on Inequalities in European Higher Education: Challenges for Theory, Policy and Practice in a Time of Change. Abingdon : Routledge. | |
2014 | Fleming T., Finnegan F. (2014) 'Critical theory and non-traditional students' experience in Irish higher education' In: Student Voices on Inequalities in European Higher Education: Challenges for Theory, Policy and Practice in a Time of Change. London : Routledge. [DOI] | |
2014 | Finnegan F.;Fleming T.;Thunborg C. (2014) 'Enduring inequalities and student agency: Theorizing an agenda for change in higher education' In: Student Voices on Inequalities in European Higher Education: Challenges for Theory, Policy and Practice in a Time of Change. Abingdon : Routledge. [DOI] | |
2014 | Fleming, T;Finnegan, F (2014) 'A Critical Journey Towards Lifelong Learning: Including Non-Traditional Students in University' In: Higher Education in Ireland: Practices, policies and possibilities. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. |
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Fergal Finnegan, Peter Lavender & Alan Tuckett with Trace Ollis (2021) 'Education as the practice of freedom'. Australian Journal of Adult Learning, . | |
2021 | Finnegan, F., McCrea, N. & Ní Chasaide (2021) 'Community development and financialization: making the connections'. Community Development Journal, 56 (1):1-20. [Full-Text] | |
2020 | Merrill B.;Finnegan F.;O'Neill J.;Revers S. (2020) '‘When it comes to what employers are looking for, I don’t think I’m it for a lot of them’: class and capitals in, and after, higher education*'. Studies in Higher Education, 45 (1):163-175. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2019 | Finnegan, F., Valadas, S., O’Neill, J., Fragoso, A., & Paulos, L. (2019) 'The search for security in precarious times: non-traditional graduates perspectives on higher education and employment'. International Journal of Lifelong Education, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2017 | Finnegan F.;Merrill B. (2017) ''We are as good as anybody else': a comparative study of working-class university students' experiences in England and Ireland'. British Journal of Sociology of Education, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2017 | Hoggan C.;Mälkki K.;Finnegan F. (2017) 'Developing the Theory of Perspective Transformation: Continuity, Intersubjectivity, and Emancipatory Praxis'. Adult Education Quarterly, 67 (1):48-64. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2016 | Finnegan, Fergal (2016) 'The future is unwritten: Democratic adult education against and beyond neoliberalism'. The Adult Learner, . [Full-Text] | |
2016 | Connolly, B;Finnegan, F (2016) 'Making Hope and History Rhyme Reflections on Popular Education and Leadership Following a Visit to Highlander'. Adult Learning, 27 :120-127. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2013 | West L.;Fleming T.;Finnegan F. (2013) 'Connecting Bourdieu, Winnicott, and Honneth: Understanding the experiences of non-traditional learners through an interdisciplinary lens'. Studies in the Education of Adults, 45 (2):119-134. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2011 | Finnegan, F., Fleming, T., Kurantowicz, E. & Nizińska, A. (2011) 'Uczenie się i uznanie: Doświadczenia studentów i badaczy w projekcie RANLHE'. Terazniejszoœæ-Czlowiek-Edukacja, 53 (1):7-19. [Full-Text] | |
2008 | Fergal Finnegan (2008) 'Neoliberalism, Irish society and adult education'. The Adult Learner, NA :45-67. [Full-Text] |
Conference Publication
Year | Publication | |
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2014 | Finnegan, F. (2014) Paper read at the 11th International Transformative Learning Conference, October 24th Embodied experience, Transformative Learning and the production of space Teachers College, | |
2014 | Finnegan, F. & Dudka-Glowacki and D. (2014) Annual Conference of American Association of Adult and Continuing Education Collaboration and adventures across the Atlantic Charleston, North Carolina, | |
2014 | Finnegan F (2014) Spaces of Transformation and Transformation of Space. Proceedings of the 11th International Transformative Learning Conference . In: A. Nicolaides & D. Holt eds. Embodied experience, Transformative Learning and the production of space Teachers College Columbia University, | |
2011 | Finnegan, F. (2011) Paper read at Transformative Learning Conference: In a Time of Crisis: Individual and Collective Challenges, 28th May Learning as transformation or adaptation? Thinking with and against Mezirow and Bourdieu Athens, | |
2010 | Fleming , T. & Finnegan, F. (2010) Looking Back, Looking Forward: Learning, teaching & research in adult education past, present & future . In: B. Merrill & P. Armstrong eds. Towards a critical theory of access and retention in Irish HE Brighton: University of Sussex, Centre for Continuing Education; SCUTREA, [Full-Text] | |
2010 | Finnegan, F.with Field and J., Fleming and T., Holliday and M., Morgan-Klein and N. and West, L. (2010) The Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults (SCUTREA On Structure and subjectivity, reproduction and transformation: Understanding non-traditional students in higher education. Paper read at Looking Back, Looking Forward: Learning, teaching & research in adult education past, present & future Coventry, | |
2009 | Finnegan, F.with Fleming and T., Johnston and R., Merrill and B. and West, L. (2009) Paper read at The Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults Really useful research? Critical Perspectives on Evidence-Based Policy and Practice in Lifelong Learning Exploring HE retention and drop-out: A European biographical research approach Brighton, |
Conference Contribution
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Finnegan, F., (2021) Reflections on the meaning, limits and possibilities of critical adult education researchInaugural Lecture of Centro de Investigação em Educação de Adultos e Intervenção Comunitária (CEAD) Inaugural public lecture Algarve, 23/02/2021-. | |
2021 | Finnegan, F., (2021) ESRI Seminar Series, Hard Times, Challenging Futures: Confronting Educational Inequalities Tackling social class inequality in challenging times: Reflections on the use and limits of critical research Manchester Metropolitan University, 17/02/2021-. | |
2020 | Finnegan, F., (2020) EUCEN Fora on Active Citzenship Lifelong Learning University Lifelong Learning Rethinking LLL in the scope of active and global citizenship for the next decade Barcelona, 23/11/2020-27/11/2020. | |
2020 | Finnegan, F., (2020) Strengthening citizenship education at local level UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities Larissa, Greece, 12/11/2020-13/11/2020. | |
2020 | Finnegan, F., (2020) Persistent inequalities and the pulse of freedom: Reflecting on the power and the limits of higher education Special public lecture University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, 03/12/2020-. | |
2017 | Finnegan, F. (2017) 47th Conference of the Sociological Association of Ireland, 5th May Symposium on social class in Ireland: Beyond the mire of laws and figure? Working class students experience in and after HE Belfast, 05/05/2017-07/05/2017. | |
2017 | Finnegan, F. and Merrill, B. and Revers, S. and O’Neill, J. (2017) The discourse we live by: Life History and Biography Network,4th March You need postgraduate level education to work in Aldi these days’: Class, credentials and occupational aspirations in contemporary Higher Education Copenhagen, . | |
2016 | Finnegan, F. (2016) UCD Equality Studies Public Seminar Beyond ‘the mire of laws and figures’? A critical discussion of research and policy on working class access to Irish Higher Education University College Dublin, 27/04/2016-. | |
2016 | Finnegan, F. (2016) Equality Studies Equality Public Seminar Beyond ‘the mire of laws and figures’? A critical discussion of research and policy on working class access to Irish Higher Education UCD, 27/04/2016-. | |
2016 | Finnegan, F. & O’Neill, J. (2016) Building Critical Visions on Employability in European Higher Education: Listening to Students’ Voices ESREA 8th Triennial European Research Conference Maynooth University, . | |
2016 | Finnegan, F.with West, L. (2016) Life History and Biographical Research Conferenc A dialogue on democracy and resources of hope Canterbury Christ Church University, 08/03/2016-. | |
2016 | Finnegan, F. and Coulter, C. and Cox, L. and Moran, M. (2016) Roundtable at the Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI) 43rd Annual Conference, 13th May We make our history: Marxism and social movements in the twilight of neoliberalism University of Limerick, . | |
2015 | Finnegan, F.with Fitzsimons and C. (2015) Being an adult educator: Experiences, ideals and challenges, Presentation at The Further Education & Training (FET) Forum Colloquium, 18th February Paper on practitioner research in FE Waterford, . | |
2015 | Finnegan, F.with Merrill and B. (2015) ESREA (European Society for Research on the Education of Adults) Life History and Biographical Research Conference Songs of Innocence and experience: The politics of biographical research Milan, 08/03/2015-. | |
2015 | Finnegan, F. (2015) EUCEN Conference: Re-imagining Lifelong Learning Access policies in HE and the cramping of the sociological imagination Galway, 11/12/2015-12/12/2015. | |
2015 | Finnegan, F. (2015) Dimensions of Lifelong Learning: Past, Present and Future Echoes from the past and cries in the present: equality, recognition and the pulse of freedom in adult education Warwick University, 30/06/2015-. | |
2015 | Finnegan, F.with Kenny and M. (2015) Presentation at roundtable at Educational Studies of Ireland Conference, April 10th The Further Education and Training Strategy 2014-2019: A critical review Maynooth University, Maynooth, 09/04/2015-10/04/2015. | |
2015 | Finnegan, F. (2015) European Conference of Education: Education, Power and Empowerment Come build in the empty house’: Reimagining democracy and education in a time of change Brighton, . | |
2014 | Finnegan, F.with Connolly, B. (2014) Popular Education Network Conference Learning from each other's struggles: Radical education and the politics of knowledge Valletta University, Malta, . | |
2014 | Finnegan, F. (2014) Equality, respect and recognition in adult education Keynote address, Alumni Association of Ball State University Indiana, . | |
2014 | Finnegan, F. (2014) Paper read at Educational Studies of Ireland Conference, 11th April Spaces of identity, recognition and transition: working class students’ experiences of Irish Higher Education Athlone, . | |
2014 | Finnegan, F. (2014) International Conference on Critical Realism: From the Anatomy of the Global Crisis to the Ontology of Human Flourishing Class, habitus and reflexivity in working class students’ life and learning stories Institute of Education, London, 17/07/2014-21/07/2014. | |
2014 | Finnegan, F. (2014) SREA (European Society for Research on the Education of Adults ) Life History and Biographical Research Conference ‘Let’s get critical’: biographical research, critical realism and the challenge of producing emancipatory knowledge Otto Von Guericke University, Magdeburg, 07/03/2014-. | |
2013 | Finnegan, F.with Merrill, B. (2013) ESREA (European Society for Research on the Education of Adults) Access Research Conference Working class university students’ experience in England and Ireland: A comparative study of access and equality in a time of crisis Linkoping University, 29/11/2013-. | |
2013 | Finnegan, F. (2013) The philosophy and principles of adult education Annual Addiction Studies Seminar Maynooth, . | |
2013 | Finnegan, F. (2013) Annual Addiction Studies Seminar Critical thinking for a change? Maynooth, 02/03/2013-. | |
2013 | Finnegan, F. (2013) Access, equality and working class students’ experience in Irish HE. Paper read at Exploring difference and diversity in Irish Higher Education, 12th June We’re as good as anybody else. We matter Trinity College Dublin,Dublin, . | |
2011 | Finnegan, F.with Fleming and T. (2011) Seminar paper presented at the Conference: The Challenge of Access, Retention and Drop-out in European Higher Education: The experiences of non-traditional students, 7th April The statistical findings from Ireland Seville University, . | |
2011 | Fergal Finnegan (2011) Transformative Learning Conference: In a Time of Crisis: Individual and Collective Challenges Learning as Transformation or Adaptation? Thinking With and Against Mezirow and Bourdieu. Athens, 28/05/2011-. | |
2011 | Finnegan, F. (2011) All Ireland Conference for Doctoral Researchers in Education, 13th May Education for transformation? The experience of working class students in Higher Education UCD, Dublin, . | |
2011 | Finnegan, F. with Fleming. T. (2011) The Challenge of Access, Retention and and Drop-out in European Higher Education: Access and retention of non-traditional students: Narratives from Ireland Seville University, 06/04/2011-08/04/2011. | |
2010 | Field, J., Finnegan, F., Fleming, T., Holliday, M. Morgan-Klein, N. & West, L. (2010) On Structure and subjectivity, reproduction and transformation: Understanding non-traditional students in higher education On Structure and subjectivity, reproduction and transformation: Understanding non-traditional students in higher education Sussex, . [Full-Text] | |
2010 | Finnegan, F.with Fleming and T. (2010) 2nd Advanced Bilateral RANLHE Research Seminar Access and retention: Experiences of non-traditional learners in HE University of Lower Silesaia, Wroclaw, Poland, 28/04/2010-. | |
2010 | Finnegan, F. (2010) The British Sociological Association: Bourdieu and Education Seminar Habitus, recognition and reflexivity: Developing research tools for exploring the relationship between class and identity in education Queens University, Belfast, 30/03/2010-. | |
2010 | Finnegan, F. (2010) All Ireland Conference for Doctoral Researchers in Education, 22nd May For they know not what they do? Interpreting student narratives of class and identity in Irish Higher education institutions Belfast, . | |
2010 | Finnegan, F., Fleming T., Loxley and A. and Kenny, A. (2010) t British Sociological Association Annual Conference: Inequalities and Social Justice Mapping the first-degree destinations of mature disadvantaged students in three Irish higher education institutions Glasgow, . | |
2009 | Finnegan, F.with Fleming and T., Loxley and A. and Kenny, A. (2009) Paper read at Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Conference Challenging Higher Education Knowledge and Practice, 8th December There was a panic at the beginning! Disadvantaged mature student experiences in and out of higher education in the Irish context Newport, Wales, . | |
2009 | Finnegan, F. (2009) Milan discourse s Biographical transitions, class and identity in the narratives of mature working class students after graduation Milan, . | |
2009 | Finnegan, F.with Fleming and T., Loxley and A. and Kenny, A. (2009) Paper read at An Pobal Conference, 24th September Where next?: Mapping and understanding the post first degree destinations of mature disadvantaged students in three Higher Education Institutions Dublin, . | |
2009 | Finnegan, F.with Fleming and T., Loxley and A. and Kenny, A. (2009) Paper read at The Educational Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, 3rd April Education and disadvantage: The mature student experience Kilkenny, . | |
2008 | Finnegan, F. with Fleming, T and T., Loxley and A. and Kenny, A. (2008) Annual Conference of Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE), ‘Valuing Higher Education’ Where next?: Mapping and understanding the post first degree destinations of mature disadvantaged students in three Higher Education Institutions Liverpool, . |
Published Report
Year | Publication | |
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2017 | O' Neill, J. Finnegan, F, Merill, B et al (2017) In search for decent work after university: a handbook for non- traditional graduate. Warwick University Centre for Lifelong Learning, . | |
2017 | Revers, S, Merrill, B, Finnegan et al (2017) BUILDING BRIDGES TO SUSTAINABLE EMPLOYMENT (STAFF & EMPLOYER HANDBOOK. Warwick University Centre for Lifelong Learning, . [Full-Text] |
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