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UCC Athena SWAN Main Steering Group Members

Interim Registrar Professor Stephen Byrne chairs the Steering Group.  The Steering Group members (listed below) represent a diverse cross section of the university community, including representatives from both STEMM and non-STEMM disciplines, academic and administrative roles, students, and early to mid and late-career roles.

Steering Group Member Role
 ‌Dr Deirdre Bennett Dr Deirdre Bennett

Head, Medical Education Unit, School of Medicine; Director, 5 Year Undergraduate Medical Programme; Member, Staff Development Committee

  Prof Helen Whelton   Head of College Medicine and Health  
 Dr Frank Burke Dr Frank Burke Senior Lecturer/Consultant, Restorative Dentistry; Deputy Dean, University Dental School and Hospital; Vice Head (Academic Affairs) College of Medicine & Health
Dr Louise Crowley Prof. Louise Crowley  Vice Dean (Student Affairs), School of Law; Member of Governing Body Chair, Academic Council Staff Development Committee
Professor Sarah Culloty Prof. Sarah Culloty Head of College SEFS. Director, Environmental Research Institute
 

 

Ms Tracy Eagles 

 

HR Central Services Manager

 

 

Dr Amanullah De Sondy

 

Head of Dept. Study of Religions & Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Islam

  Prof. Nuala Finnegan

 

Chair, UCC Equality Committee; Head, Department of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies; Director, Centre for Mexican Studies

 

  Dr Tadhg Nagle

 

Lecturer, Business Information Systems, College of Business and Law

 

   

 

Head of the College of Business and Law.

 

 

 

Ms Ann King

 

Athena SWAN Project Officer; Member, UCC Equality Committee

 

 Dr Angela Flynn

 

Lecturer, School of Nursing & Midwifery 
 Dr Carol Linehan Prof Carol Linehan  Head of School of Applied Psychology; Co-Investigator, Genovate Project; Chartered Work and Organisational Psychologist
 

 

Prof. John Cryan

 

Vice-President for Research and Innovation

 

Dr Eric Moore

School of Chemistry and Tyndall National Institute
 

Dr Padraic Morrissey

Senior Researcher, Photonics, Tyndall National Institute
  Dr Siobhán Cusack Director of Research Strategy and Projects, OVPRI UCC 
 

 

Prof Ciara Heavin

 

Professor, Business Information Systems.

  Ashley Flaherty Chief People and Culture Officer
 

Dr Avril Hutch 

EDI Unit Director
 

 

Dr. Peter O'Brien

 

Deputy Director, Irish Photonic Integration Centre, Senior Head of Group Tyndall National Institute; Group member funder under SFI Advance Programme (Women in Science Award); STEMM outreach in schools, including Young Scientist projects (YS Ireland & Tanzania).

 

 

Mr Kieran Creedon

 

HR Business Partner for the Deputy President and Registrar’s area

 

 

Prof. Stephen Byrne (Chair)

 

Deputy President and Registrar

 

 

 

 

Staff LGBT Network

  TBC Post-Doc Representative
 Dr Ruth Ramsay Dr Ruth Ramsay O'Riordan  Dean of Graduate Studies.  Head of Graduate School, College of Science, Engineering & Food Science (SEFS), SEFS Vice-Head; Aurora Leadership Foundation alumna 2014 and role model and mentor in 2015; Mentor, Through the Glass Ceiling programme. Senior Lecturer.
  Prof Aideen Sullivan  

Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience

 Dr Silvia Ross Dr Silvia Ross  Senior Lecturer, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures; Formerly Associate Dean & Head of CACCSS Graduate School; Chair, Board of MA Women’s Studies.
 

 

 

 Head of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences

 

 

Dr Abina Crean

School of Pharmacy

 

 

 

 

Athena SWAN

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