Professor Rosalind Pritchard, an educationalist with a long record of research and publication, has been awarded a Senior Distinguished Research Fellowship by the University of Ulster.

She is Professor of Education at the School of Education, Coleraine, with responsibility for postgraduate programmes in the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).

Born in Belfast, her association with the university spans an era of innovation, including the merger of the the New University of Ulster (NUU) and the Ulster Polytechnic to form the Univeristy of Ulster in 1984, She was a research fellow at NUU Institute of Continuing Education, Magee in 1974, became a lecturer in 1977, and was appointed University of Ulster senior lecturer in 1988 and professor in 1999.

Professor Pritchard designed the university’s Postgraduate Diploma/Masters TESOL course, which was the first on the island of Ireland. Her specialist research has earned her international recognition and she has been widely published. She is on the International Executive of the European Association for Institutional Research

An observer of how societies deal with key modern issues such as language learning and culture, she has analysed aspects of comparative and international education. Among her notable achievements is a body of research on schooling and higher education in the former East Germany and in modern Germany as a whole.

Educated at Methodist College, Trinity College Dublin, the Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Ulster, she lives in Coleraine. She met her late husband, Professor Rex Cathcart, while both worked at Ulster Television in Belfast before entering academia.


Winter Graduation News 2005

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