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Dr. Conor Buggy Director of the UCD Centre for Safety and Health at Work / Associate Professor in Occupational and Environmental Studies UCD Centre for Safety and Health at Work.

Biography

Dr. Conor Buggy is a scientist and engineer with over a decade of academic experience at UCD. He is the Director of the UCD Centre for Safety and Health at Work where as Associate Professor in Occupational and Environmental Studies leads the academic team delivering the Centre’s three academic programmes. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer (Climate Change Science, Development and Justice) for the Masters in Development Practice at Trinity College Dublin. Conor has a number of college and university teaching awards and has a keen interest in teaching innovation. Prior to academia Conor worked in civil engineering project management with a significant focus on environmental impact assessment and construction management. Conor’s recent research at UCD focuses on the impact COVID-19 is having on OSH professionals and their workloads, this research is funded by Science Foundation Ireland. Conor’s primary OSH research interest lies in the impact innovative education has on organisations to promote positive behavioural change and safety culture. His environmental research focuses on environmental sustainability and how people learn about it. Additional public health research focuses on the health and wellbeing of marginalised communities and healthcare accessibility / management during emergency scenarios. Conor has also been heavily involved in initiatives supporting equality, diversity and inclusion in UCD as well as for the National LGBT Federation (NXF).

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Dr Penpatra Sripaiboonkij is Assistant Professor in Occupational Safety and Health in the Centre for Safety and Health at Work, in the UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science. Penpatra is Programme Coordinator for the Higher Diploma in Safety, Health and Wellbeing at Work. Her current research interests focus on the health effects from air pollution especially in identifying susceptible population groups and planning and implementing appropriate prevention and protection measures to mitigate the expected adverse health effects of occupational respiratory health hazards. Her special interest is focused on work physiology, occupational respiratory health, epidemiology in occupational health and safety. Penpatra has been working with the UCD Centre for Safety and Health since 2016.

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Dr Alison Connolly is Assistant Professor in Occupational Safety and Health in the Centre for Safety and Health at Work, in the UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science.  Alison has an undergraduate degree in Environmental Health and Safety and a PhD in Exposure Science and is also an Adjunct Lecturer for the School of Natural Sciences in the University of Galway. Alison is an exposure scientist whose research is motivated by the protection of human health by evaluating and understanding exposures to new and emerging pollutants. Alison conducts exposure assessment studies to investigate human exposures to pollutants for both environmental and occupational exposures. She predominantly utilises human biomonitoring sampling strategies, which measure pollutants in biological matrices (e.g., blood, urine) to determine internal body burden. Alison is also an active member of the scientific community, including being on the executive board for the European Chapter of the International Society of Exposure Science (ISES Europe) and a council member of the Occupational Hygiene Society of Ireland (OHSI).

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