Kate Molloy has been an educator since 2005, moving from secondary teaching into higher education in 2015. Kate has worked across digital and online learning in higher education, and recently joined the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation and Development at the Technological University of the Shannon as an Educational Developer.
Kate holds current teaching licences from the Teaching Council and State of Connecticut. As a teacher, she gained extensive experience in staff development, curriculum design, and critical pedagogy. Her current interests focus broadly on Critical EdTech Studies (CES), inclusive teaching and learning, creativity, and open educational practices.
Kate is currently undertaking PhD research in postdigital learning design in the School of STEM Education, Innovation and Global Studies at Dublin City University with supervisors Eamon Costello and James Brunton. Her research project is ‘Towards a postdigital learning design paradigm: A qualitative study of the experiences and perspectives of learning designers in Irish higher education’. She is a member of the Global Open Graduate Network (GO-GN) and has recent publications in the Scopus-indexed Tech Trends and Postdigital Science and Education journals.
Kate is Chair of the Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) and she serves as an invited member of the AI in Schools External Advisory Taskforce for the Department of Education and Youth. She is the recipient of an OE Global Open Collaboration Award for her work with the Higher Education for Good authoring collective and an HEA SATLE Impact Award for her contributions to the interdisciplinary Inclusive Learning at University of Galway project. She is currently co-leading the development and first national rollout of the HEA-funded ‘Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP)’ open course.
You can find her on Mastodon @katemolloy or Bluesky @kate-molloy.net
Presentations, Publications, OERs, and Talks
ATU Magazine November 2024 “Setting New Values for Higher Education”
Enhancing Digital Teaching and Learning project publications
Enhancing Digital Teaching and Learning project outcomes and showcase
CESI Conference 2022 Keynote: Reimagining Learning for an Inclusive and Flexible Future (March 2022)
DCU Assessment Hackathon – Invited Mentor (May 2022)
Curriculum Vitae
My full CV is available to view here
Recent Publications
Daly, A., Templeman-Lilley, A., Walsh, I., Neuroth, A., Molloy, K., & Lambert, V. (2026). Challenges and possibilities of public and patient involvement for early-career researchers: Pedagogy, practice and data governance. Research Involvement and Engagement, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-026-00979-1
Molloy, K. (2026). Review of Neil Selwyn (2025). Digital Degrowth: Radically Rethinking Our Digital Futures. Postdigital Science and Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-025-00621-5
Molloy, K., Costello, E., Brunton, J,. & Thomson, C. (2025). Critical and Creative Methods: From Learning Design Practice to Research. TechTrends, 69(6), 1134–1140. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-025-01154-1
Molloy, K., & Thomson, C. (2023). Humanising Learning Design with Digital Pragmatism. In L. Czerniewicz & C. Cronin (Eds.), Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0363.17
Flynn, S. et al. (2023). “Vibrant, open and accessible”: Students’ visions of higher education futures. In L. Czerniewicz & C. Cronin (Eds.), Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0363.14
Molloy, K., & Thomson, C. (2022). Humanising Online Learning through the Lens of Engaged Pedagogy. In T. Jaffer, S. Govender & L. Czerniewicz (Eds.), Learning Design Voices. https://edtechbooks.org/ldvoices/engaged_pedagogy
Podcasts
TeachNet Ireland Podcast – 2025 CESI Conference with Mags Amond, interview by Pat Brennan (February 2025)
CESI Staffroom, interview with Hassan Dabbagh (May 2022)
Gettin’ Air – The Open Pedagogy Podcast, interview with Terry Greene (December 2019)
Webinars
Humanising Learning Design with Digital Pragmatism (September 2022)
EDTL Approach: Consider Content and Activities (July 2020)
Stories of Care: Reflections on Teaching and Learning Online in 2020 (December 2020)
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