MaryRose Burke lectures in German in the School of Business Studies in Letterkenny Regional Technical College. She is also the Equality Officer for the Donegal Colleges Branch of the Teachers' Union of Ireland.
Anne Clune left school at 16 to work for London County Council. She later graduated from the University of Sussex and Trinity College Dublin. She has lectured in the English Department at Trinity since 1968 and has been a member of "dozens of college committees".
She is a long-term member of the Executive of the Irish Section of Amnesty International and of the Irish Federation of University Teachers. She was President of IFUT from 1992 - 1994 and is a member of the IFUT Equality Committee and Convenor of the Educational Policy Working Group. She is also an ICTU representative on HEA Steering Committee on the Future Development of Higher Education.
Maeve Conrick lectures in the French Department, University College Cork, in Linguistics and Literature. In 1993, she was appointed UCC's Student Advisor and Ombudsman and became a member of the International University and College Ombuds' Association. She is a member of the UCC Equality Committee.
She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the UniversitÈ d'Aix-Marseille, France. Her research interests are in the fields of Applied Linguistics, (with particular reference to French as a second language), Sociolinguistics, (especially language and gender) and Canadian Studies.
She has lectured widely on linguistic topics, including a lecture on "Language and Gender: Do Women and Men Speak the same Language?" as part of the UCC 150 Boole Public Lecture Series.
Nuala Keher is a Project Manager with the Adult Education Open Learning Centre at University College Galway. She teaches on the UCG Open Learning Diploma in Training and Education and is a member of the Diploma in Women's Studies Course Board. She is involved in the development of programmes for community groups, trade unionists and industrial trainers.
The main focus of her research is Work and Trade Union Organisation, Women's Studies, and Community Development. Co-author of Your Rights at Work (Eddie Higgins and Nuala Keher - 1994) and Maternity Leave Amongst Female Academics (Nuala Keher & Anne Byrne - 1994), Nuala has received a number of research commissions, the most recent from SIPTU examining the participation of women in the trade union movement in the West of Ireland. In relation to Community Development, Nuala is currently conducting a study with the Western Women's Link, a network of over 60 women's group in the West of Ireland. An active trade unionist, Nuala is a member of the National Women's Committee of SIPTU.
Mary Leahy has worked in the catering area in Trinity College, Dublin, since 1990. She is currently the SIPTU Shop Steward for the Catering Section in Trinity College.
Mary Muldowney is a member of the SIPTU executive in Trinity College, Dublin, where she works as a Secretary in the Anatomy Department. She is one of Trinity's representatives on the Education Branch Committee of SIPTU. This committee has representatives from all the third level educational institutions in the Dublin area, as well as the National Symphony Orchestra and Gael Linn. Much of her work has concerned the working conditions of cleaners (mainly women) in Trinity. She is currently researching an M.Litt. on women workers in World War II Dublin, on a part-time basis.
Grace Neville is a statutory lecturer in the French Department of UCC. Her specialised areas of research are medieval French Irish literature and culture, language policy in contemporary France and cultural history in folklore studies. She is a member of the Management Board of the Higher Education Equality Unit. She is a graduate of UCC, and has also studied at the Universities of Caen, Metz and Lille.
Irene O'Sullivan is the President of the SIPTU Administrative Branch in UCC where she works with the Centre for European Social Research.
Ailbhe Smyth is Director of the Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre at University College Dublin. She has been active in the Women's Movement since the late 1970s and has been involved in numerous campaigns, groups and organisations. She has recently been appointed as a member of the Higher Education Authority of which she was also a member from 1985 - 1990. She was Editor of Attic Press for several years and has been a Co-Editor of Women's Studies International Forum since 1988.
Her publications include Women's Rights in Ireland (1983); Breaking the Circle: The Position of Women Academics in Ireland (1984); Feminism in Ireland (Ed.) (1988); The Abortion Papers: Ireland (Ed.) (1992); Wildish Things: An Anthology of New Irish Women's Writing (Ed.) (1989); Strategies for the Promotion of Women in Politics (1993); The Irish Women's Studies Reader (1993).