Sharon Flynn

Sharon is a successful hybrid academic with 30 years of experience working in higher education in Ireland. From 2022 to 2025, she was the National Coordinator of the ambitious N-TUTORR programme, an innovative collaboration across the Technological Higher Education sector to transform the student experience, funded to €40m through the European Union. Between 2019 and 2022, she was project manager of the Enhancing Digital Teaching and Learning (EDTL) project, working with senior academic leaders across seven universities in the Irish Universities Association. Before joining the IUA she was the Assistant Director at the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at the University of Galway (previously NUI Galway), where she focused on academic staff development and lead a team of learning technologists. Sharon is a Trustee of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT). She started her academic career as a lecturer in the Discipline of Information Technology at the University of Galway.