Position: Senior Lecturer
Email: jconnington@ipa.ie
Telephone: 00 353 1 240 3679
James Connington is a Lecturer in The Whitaker School of Government & Management at the IPA. He has been with IPA for over 28 years. He is the Director of both the IPA’s Professional Diploma in Human Rights and Equality and the Professional Certificate in Resourcing & Recruitment, programmes designed in conjunction with the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and publicjobs (previously the Public Appointments Service) respectively.
He oversees Year 2 of the MA/MSc HRM stream including the dissertation supervision phase as well as lecturing and tutoring on a range of other educational programmes. His principal areas of interest include occupational psychology, human rights & dignity in the workplace, non-discriminatory practice and recruitment and selection. He has over twenty-five years of consultancy and project work experience in Ireland and internationally. International project work has included public sector reform, training, education & consultancy projects in Cyprus, Albania, Bulgaria, Poland, Greece, Slovenia, Lesotho, and Türkiye, as well as multiple projects across the Western Balkans region. James is a Spanish speaker.