Dr Rosarii Griffin is the Director of the Centre for Global Development through Education based at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. Prior to this, Dr Griffin was both a Lecturer and Course Coordinator in the Centre for Adult and Continuing Education, University College Cork.

Earlier on, Rosarii worked as a Researcher Assistant in the Department of Education, University College Cork; as a Research Fellow at the University of Brussels (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) and as a Research Officer at Oxford University, UK.

Rosarii is also a graduate of Exeter College, Oxford (MSc in Research Methods) and St Hugh’s College Oxford (D.Phil in International and Comparative Education) where she served both Colleges respectively as the elected Vice-President and then President of the Graduate MCR. UCC is Rosarii’s Alma Mater (BA, MEd and H.Dip in Education) from which she is an honours graduate.

Subsequently, Rosarii became an elected member of UCC’s Governing Body (2004-2007). Rosarii is the recipient of many awards and scholarships for her academic work including an ESRC Scholarship from the British Council to read at Oxford (1998); the Vice Chancellor’s Award for undertaking a Doctorate of distinction at Oxford (2001) and the Weiner-Anspach Award European Award to pursue a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at ULB, Brussels, Belgium (2001). To date, Rosarii has published three books: ‘International Perspectives on Special Educational Needs’ (with C. Brock) (2002); Education in Transition – The politics and Processes of Change: International Perspectives’ (2004) and ‘Education in the Muslim World: Different Perspectives’(2006).