Cornelia Connolly

Cornelia is an established international scholar in computer science education and learning engineering.

Her research focuses on broad societal/policy impact relating to computing education and digital competency, curriculum reform, digital education, innovation and equity; as well as knowledge transfer to facilitate behavioural change in a variety of learning contexts (formal, informal and nonformal).

Cornelia is a Professor in the School of Education at University of Galway. In addition to a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Educational Technology she holds a B.Eng. (Hons) and M.Eng. (Hons) in Computer Engineering and a M.B.A.

Cornelia is a member of the Executive Committee of Lero, the SFI Research Centre for Software, Chair of the International Society for Design and Development in Education (ISDDE), and she leads the Learning Engineering Research Group at the University of Galway. Having achieved significant funding success with awards from Horizon 2020, SFI and industry, Cornelia has published extensively in leading international journals and is a member of the ACM Transactions on Computing Education and International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology editorial boards.