President

Dr. Paul Donnelly - president@irishfulbrightalumni.com

Paul joined the IFAA committee in 2004. He received the Smurfit Scholarship in Business Studies awarded by the Irish Fulbright Commission in 1999 while studying for his PhD in Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (USA).>>>

Vice President

Dr. Sarah Ingle - vicepresident@irishfulbrightalumni.com

Dr Sarah Ingle has been a Lecturer in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in DCU since 2001. Previous to that she taught as an associate lecturer in UCD and IT,Tallaght. Her Primary and Masters degrees are in Industrial Engineering, from TCD and UCD respectively, and she has worked in Irish industry as a chartered engineer in three multinational companies.

Hon. Secretary

Professor Darach Turley - secretary@irishfulbrightalumni.com

Darach Turley is professor of marketing in Dublin City University Business School. Prior to joining DCU, he lectured in the Dublin Institute of Technology. His teaching and research interests lie mainly in the field of consumer behaviour with a particular focus on the relationship between human mortality and the marketplace. He was based in Georgetown University as a Fulbright Scholar in 2007-2008.

Membership Secretary

Ms Sinéad Murnane - membershipsecretary@irishfulbrightalumni.com

Sinéad Murnane held the Fulbright-CRH Award in Business Studies 2010-11, while conducting research for her doctoral thesis on technology and knowledge sharing in multi-disciplinary teams. Her research was carried out at the Institute for Healthcare Delivery Research at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is now a Research Fellow at the Innovation Value Institute at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth and completing her PhD at the UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.

Treasurer

Professor Patrick Clancy - treasurer@irishfulbrightalumni.com

Patrick Clancy is Associate Professor of Sociology and former Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences at University College Dublin. Before joining the staff at UCD he worked for a number of years as a primary school teacher, having studied at St. Patrick’s College of Education, Drumcondra. >>>

Website Editor

Dr. Jimmy O'Brien Moran - webmaster@irishfulbrightalumni.com

Jimmy is considered to be one of Ireland's foremost uilleann pipers. A member of the group Scullion in the late 70s and early 80s, he now concentrates on solo performance. His academic interests centre around Irish traditional music manuscripts of the 19th century. He was awarded his primary degree at WIT, where he now lectures, and his PhD at the University of Limerick. During 2008 he spent five months at Boston College as a Fulbright Visiting Professor under the Culture Ireland-Fulbright award.

Members

Dr Anne Cleary

Anne Cleary is a lecturer in the School of Sociology, University College Dublin and her teaching and research interests are in the area of gender and health. Before joining UCD she worked in the Health Research Board and was later appointed to the board of the HRB. She is a former editor of the Irish Journal of Sociology and has undertaken research projects funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and the Social Sciences, the National Disability Authority and The Department of Social and Family Affairs. She was based in the University of California, Berkeley, as a Fulbright Scholar in 2010.

Professor Séamus Ó Cinnéide, Centre for Applied Social Studies, NUI Maynooth

Séamus Ó Cinnéide holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Social Policy. He is a native of Co. Donegal and studied at University College Galway and University College Dublin (National University of Ireland) and the London School of Economics. He was called to the bar in 1980.

Ms Róisín Tiernan

Roisin Tiernan originally trained as a secondary school teacher, teaching Irish, German and Italian. She returned to UCD to study psychology and in 2000 she received a Fulbright scholarship which enabled her to study a Masters in Emotional and Behavioural Disorders at Columbia University, New York. Since her return from New York Roisin has been working in the HSE across different care groups within the Psychology department. (Child and Family Services, Child and Adult Disabilities and Child and Adolescent and Adult Mental Health). Her clinical area of specialism within Psychology is Disabilities. Roisin currently holds the post of HSE Principal Psychology Manager in Sth Tipperary Local Health Ofiice.