Margaret Nohilly

Dr. Margaret Nohilly is a Coordinator of the Professional Master in Education and Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Mary Immaculate College. Her academic background includes a BEd from MIC, MSt from Trinity College Dublin, and an EdD from Dublin City University. She specializes in educational wellbeing, child protection, and teacher professional development. Currently, she chairs the NCCA Wellbeing and RSE/SPHE primary development groups and serves as Treasurer of the SPHE Network.

Her research focuses on wellbeing in schools, teacher wellbeing during crises, child protection policies, and the implementation of educational reforms. Key areas include pandemic impacts on educator mental health, mandatory reporting requirements for teachers, and interdisciplinary approaches to wellbeing policy.

Recent work includes publications on post-pandemic silver linings for educators, barriers in child protection reporting, and wellbeing curriculum development. She frequently presents at international conferences such as the American Educational Research Association and the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect.

Nohilly oversees courses like the BEd and Professional Master of Education programs. Her contributions span policy development, scholarly publications, and collaborative research projects addressing contemporary challenges in primary education.