Grace Neville is Emeritus Professor in the French Department, University College Cork (UCC) and Adjunct Professor of French at University College Dublin (UCD), having retired from UCC in 2012 after a career of 35 years. In 2008 she was appointed as UCC’s first Vice President for Teaching and Learning, a position she held until 2012. Grace Neville has been involved in Teaching and Learning initiatives since the early 1980s, from the UCC Teaching Development Unit to more recent initiatives inspired by the Teaching and Learning Scholarship at Harvard and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She served for many years on the board of directors of the Glucksman Gallery and was Chair of Cork University Press publishing committee. Grace Neville was also Director of NAIRTL (National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning) as well as overseeing the operation of UCC’s Centre for Adult Continuing Education. In France, Neville is an invited member of the international jury of the IDEX/ I-SITE initiative (a major part of the French government’s Investissements d’avenir programme at the ANR). From 2014-19, she was Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee of Sorbonne-Universités, Paris (a multi-institution cluster which includes Paris-Sorbonne Université), and is an invited member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of le CRI (Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire, Paris). In 2012, she was appointed Chair of a national initiative on innovative teaching in French higher education, and in 2015 was appointed Chair of an initiative on innovative technology in French higher education. Both of these initiatives are part of the French government’s Investissements d’avenir programme. Neville was awarded the highest distinction bestowed by the French state, the Légion d’Honneur, as well as the Palmes Académiques, and is an invited member of the Irish Board of the Légion d’Honneur (French Embassy, Dublin), as well as Vice-President of AMOPA Irlande (the Irish branch of l’Association des Membres de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (French Embassy, Dublin).
