Marese Bermingham

B Comm, HDE, HDGC, MA, Head of AnSEO- The Student Engagement Office and Head, Teaching and Learning Unit at Munster Technological University, Ireland

Since 2013, Marese has led and built the Teaching, Learning, Assessment and Student Engagement (TLASE) functions at MTU, gaining both national and international recognition for enabling distributed leadership in TLASE enhancement by initiating and advocating for discipline and interdisciplinary learning communities and by resourcing (funding and mentoring) learning enhancement projects across all of our campuses and academic units. Marese has championed staff/student partnership and led the development of a coaching and mentoring culture at MTU that is both student and staff facing. Marese has presented at various fora on her work and has been responsible for the initiation and main scheming of many innovative TLASE programmes at MTU while actively contributing to TLASE developments both nationally and internationally. Marese is a Founding Member, Global Forum on Student Success. She was an invited member of the National Advisory Group for National Forum Extra words to be used if helpful on Teaching and Learning on Professional Development Framework (2019 – 2022) and the National Advisory Group on Student Success (2018 – 2021).