About Sr Bernadette Flanagan PBVM
In 1998, Dr Bernadette Flanagan completed her doctorate in Humanities (Spirituality) at the Milltown Institute, Dublin.
Since that time she has become an Associate Professor in Spirituality and led the development of MA and professional doctoral studies in Spirituality in Ireland. She has consulted to a wide range of organisations in Ireland and overseas on dimensions of spiritual education, spiritual care and spiritual practice in such fields as healthcare, education, relational wellbeing, aging; addiction and leadership. Dr Bernadette Flanagan has served as Chair SpIRE.
About The Spirituality Institute for Research and Education (SpIRE)
The main object for which SpIRE was established is the promotion of spirituality by providing research, education, and community services for the public benefit.
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About SPIRE From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia
The Spirituality Institute for Research and Education (SpIRE) was established in 2016 to raise awareness of spirituality as an applied academic discipline. Starting in August 2016, SpIRE in conjunction with the Waterford Institute of Technology delivers an MA in Applied Spirituality which was run from All Hallows College, Dublin and awarded by Dublin City University (prior to it closing down its academic programmes), and which had earlier been run from Jesuit Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy awarded by the National University of Ireland, from 2001 until it suspended its academic programmes in 2012 The Jesuit Library in Milltown, has acquired a number of books donated by All Hallows College from the John Hand Library on spirituality.
Lectures and seminars are delivered in the Jesuit Centre, Milltown Park, and students have access to the newly created (2020) SpIRE library and facilities in Milltown Park. The objective would be to develop the programmes, to include Doctoral research.
Founded by Dr. Michael O’Sullivan SJ who is the Executive Director of SpIRE and MA programme leader and Dr Bernadette Flanagan PBVM who serves as chair of SpIRE both had previously worked at the Milltown Institute and were also colleagues at All Hallows College
Members of the SpIRE Advisory Committee include Dr Noelia Molina, Dr Noel Keating, Dr Elizabeth McCrory, Dr Bernadette Flanagan, and emeritus Prof. Michael Howlett (WIT). Prof. Fiona Timmins (Trinity College Dublin) and Dr Michael Murray served on this committee for a number of years, as did Dara Westby.
In August 2016 SpIRE hosted a Summer School in Milltown Institutes Conference Centre, the second SpIRE Summer School – Journeying with Spirit is scheduled for August 2017. SpIRE and WIT hosted the first international conference in this country on Pilgrimage and the Evolution of Spiritual Tourism took place in WIT in March 2018. In May 2019, SpIRE and WIT hosted and ran the 2019 European Spirituality in Economics and Society (SPES) Society Annual Conference, Spirituality in Society and the Professions
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The Spirituality Institute for Research and Education (SpIRE) was established in 2015 to serve the spiritual seeking of people; it emphasises the value of the academic study of spirituality in higher education, and the phenomenon of ‘spirituality and’.
‘Spirituality and’ refers to the relationship between spirituality and the manifold areas of lived experience. These areas include healthcare, management, leadership, disability, social concern, ecology, aging, and social media, etc. The interface between spirituality and such areas, and spirituality and the professions, are all signs of a new spiritual consciousness across the globe.
This global spiritual awakening is moving people to seek spiritual resources for issues about the meaning of life. The issues arise in a range of settings such as work, family, relationships, life-transitions, and concerns regarding human, societal, and planetary wellbeing.
In order to serve the journey of life in its spiritual dimension and connection, SpIRE aims to develop contemplative and critically informed spirituality guides, reflective practitioners, spirituality theoreticians, and skilled researchers. It will give effect to its aims through education, research, training, consultancy, publishing, and networking. The networking will involve collaboration with similar initiatives and entities in Ireland and beyond.
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