Dr Tom Maguire today received a Distinguished Teaching Fellowship by the University

Dr Tom Maguire, Lecturer in Theatre Studies in the School of Media and Performing Arts, today receives a Distinguished Teaching Fellowship by the University.

Born and educated in Belfast, he studied English at the University of Edinburgh before going on to receive his doctorate in Theatre Studies from the University of Glasgow in 1992.

Dr Maguire, who is Subject Director for Drama, is based at the Foyle Arts Centre on the Magee campus.

Some 70 students study drama at the Centre, which is located the historic former Foyle College. A comprehensive range of undergraduate performance disciplines are taught there. Dr Maguire’s specialist teaching and research areas are in the areas of community theatre, educational drama and Irish drama.

He joined the University of Ulster in 1999 from Liverpool Hope University, where was Head of Drama and Theatre, having taught there for seven years. He is married to Dr Sarah Maguire, University of Ulster Staff Development Officer based at the Jordanstown campus.

Dr Maguire is vice-chair of the Standing Conference of University Drama Departments and a member of the Higher Education Academy.

He said: “I have been very lucky to have had very good teachers in the past, as well as very good students. I look on the award as a recognition of the amount that I have learned from them all.”


Winter Graduation News 2005

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