Donna Hazzard is Principal Lecturer, at St Mary’s University College, A College of Queen’s University, Belfast. Donna has taught at St Mary’s University College, Belfast since 1978 where she is Chair of the M-Level Programme Team and Literacy Course Team. She teaches BEd1 to BEd4 undergraduate Literacy as well as a number of Master’s level modules. Donna has been UKLA’s Northern Ireland Regional Representative since 2005.Her primary interests are in critical literacy and teaching reading and writing.