Lecturer

Email: fiona.broughtoncoveney@tudublin.ie

Tel: 01 2205457

Academic Qualifications

• BCL (Law & French), National University of Ireland (2005)
• PGDip Education, National University of Ireland (2007)
• MA (Comparative French Literature), National University of Ireland (2008)
• PhD (Law) National University of Ireland (2015)

Lecturing experience

• 2009 – 2011: Part time Tutor, University College Cork
• 2009 – 2012: Part time Lecturer, Griffith College Cork
• 2011 – 2012: Part time Lecturer, University College Cork
• 2012 – 2013: Lecturer, Griffith College Cork
• 2013 – 2014: Lecturer, Griffith College Dublin
• 2014 – 2018: Senior Lecturer & Programme Director for Postgraduate Law, Griffith College Dublin
• 2018 – present: Lecturer in Law, Technological University Dublin

Select publications

• Broughton Coveney, F, & McGowan ‘Adoption’ in Irish Family Law in Context (Clarus Press) (2023)
• Broughton Coveney, F., ‘Does Ireland Measure Up? Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and the Application of Protection Rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child’ (2018) 26(4) International Journal of Children’s Rights 626 – 663.
• Broughton, F. & O’Riordan, F., ‘Care to Share? A Study of the Extent to which an Expectation Sharing and Setting Induction Exercise is an Effective Pedagogical Tool for First Year Law Students’ (2017) 9(1) All Ireland Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 1 – 15.
• Broughton, F., ‘Overstepping the Mark? The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s Recommendations to Decriminalise Abortion in Ireland and the Meaning of ‘Child’ within the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child’ (2016) 24(4) International Journal of Children’s Rights 32 – 63.
• Broughton, F., ‘An Invisible Judgment for Invisible Children? What the High Court Decision in HSE v F (2010) says about Health-care Rights for Pre-natal Children’ (2012) 18(2) Medico-Legal Journal of Ireland 76 – 83.

Select conference papers

• F, Broughton Coveney, ‘Protecting Children in the Context of Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol in Ireland’, Society of Legal Scholars 108^th Annual Conference
• Broughton, ‘State Accountability for the Protection of Prenatal Children’s Rights: Recent Interference by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Human Rights Committee’ State Accountability for Vulnerability DCU, 2016.
• Broughton & F. O’Riordan, ‘Care to Share? Expectation Sharing and Setting as a Pedagogical Tool to Aid Induction’ International Conference for Engaging Pedagogy 2016.
• Broughton, ‘An Analysis of the Human Rights Committee’s Demand to Ireland in June 2016 to Amend its Laws on the Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy’ Irish Association of Law Teachers Conference, Waterford, 2016.
• Broughton, ‘Enhancing the Value of Legal Academia through Pushing Rights Boundaries: a Case Study of the Right of the Prenatal Child to Prophylactic HIV Treatment in Ireland’ Irish Association of Law Teachers Conference, Galway, 2015.
• Broughton, ‘Prenatal Children as a Marginalised Segment of Society and the Potential Impact of Legal Academia on the Realisation of a Variety of Rights of such Children’ Irish Association of Law Teachers Conference, Kilkenny, 2014.

Other relevant academic activities

• Deputy Chief Examiner in Postgraduate Laws, University of London (2020 – present)
• Disability Liaison Officer for Law, TU Dublin (2019 - present)
• Commissioned Reviewer of Text for Routledge (2017)
• Irish Association of Law Teachers, Member
• Society of Legal Scholars, Member
• Researcher with Child Law Clinic, UCC (2010 – 2012)
• Copy Editor with Irish Journal of Legal Studies (2010 – 2012)

Awards

• Edward and Matilda Ryan Scholarship, University College Cork
• HH Stewart Literary Scholarship, National University of Ireland
• Law Mercier Books Scholarship, University College Cork
• Department and Faculty of Law Scholarship, University College Cork
• Comyn Kelleher Tobin Graduate Bursary, University College Cork