Professor Máire Leane is Head of the School of Applied Social Studies and Co-chair of the Board of Women’s Studies, UCC.  Her research, informed by social policy and feminism, explores women’s oral history, sexualities and genders, violence against women, intellectual disability, politics of maternity care & inclusive education (UCC Research Profiles: Maire Leane, Applied Social Studies).  Her co-authored works Irish Women’s Working Lives, 1930-1960: An Oral History Study (2012) and Sexualities and Irish Society: A Reader (2014), and her recent work on siblings of people with intellectual disabilities, provide insights into family life past and present.

Máire served as UCC Dean of Graduate Studies and as Vice- Head of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences. She is a co-awardee of a President's Award for Excellence in Teaching (2018), a Frank McGrath Perpetual Award for Equality and Welfare (2018), and a MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship (2019).