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Professor Michael Peter Kennedy named Outstanding Contribution Award Leader 2026 at the Education Awards

Professor Michael Peter Kennedy was named Outstanding Contribution Award Leader 2026 at the Education Awards, recognised for a distinguished career in microelectronic engineering that spans over 400 publications, multiple patents, key national research centre foundations, and decades of academic and industry leadership across Ireland's leading universities. His recognition sets a compelling benchmark for scholarly excellence and cross-sector impact, underscoring the standard of sustained contribution to education, research, and industry that the Education Awards continue to celebrate.

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Dr Mary Kelly joins judging panel for Education Awards 2026

Dr Mary Kelly, President of Hibernia College, brings to the Education Awards 2026 judging panel a career that began in primary school classrooms in Ireland and abroad and has since reached the executive leadership of one of the country's most distinctive higher education institutions. The Education Awards 2026 ceremony takes place on 16 April at the Johnstown Estate, Enfield, Co. Meath.

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Professor Colette Henry joins judging panel for Education Awards 2026

Professor Colette Henry, Head of Department of Business Studies at Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT), has been named as a member of the judging panel for the Education Awards 2026, bringing a research career defined by entrepreneurship, gender equity, and the policy frameworks that shape participation in education and enterprise. Entries before the panel will benefit from a judging perspective that is simultaneously evidence-driven and policy-literate — attentive to what interventions actually shift outcomes for learners and entrepreneurs, and for whom.

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Dr Joe Collins joins judging panel for Education Awards 2026

The Education Awards 2026 judging panel welcomes Dr Joe Collins, Director of Further Education and Training at the Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI), whose career has been shaped by a fundamental belief that education exists to enable students to engage with their own lives and to flourish across multiple domains. His appointment to the panel brings a dimension to the judging process that goes beyond institutional metrics. Collins evaluates educational endeavour through the lens of human agency — asking not only what was achieved, but what was made possible for the people at the centre of it. That perspective is particularly pertinent to an awards programme that spans further education, professional training, and higher education in equal measure.

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April 16th, 2026

Johnstown Estate, Enfield, Co. Meath.

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