Sheila Donegan
Lecturer
Science
Waterford Institute of Technology
Ireland
Biography
Sheila Donegan is a lecturer in Chemistry and Director of Calmast - the Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) Outreach centreat Waterford IT. She is very active in the promotion of STEM and holds many national positions in this area. In 2007 Sheila , along with her colleague Eoin Gill were awarded the EU Descartes award for Science Communication in 2007, the highest EU award in this area. Previous winners of this award were Bill Bryson and David Attenborough.
Research Interest
Innovative methods of teaching science and maths at primary, secondary and third level, Public understanding of science, Surfactant mediated chromatography for the analysis of pharmaceutical products, The use of scanning electron microscopy and EDX in the analysis of materials
