Emmeline Hill
Emmeline Hill is Associate Professor of Equine Science at UCD and was the co-founder of Equinome Ltd. (acquired by Plusvital 2015), a UCD spin-out company founded in 2009. She leads a Science Foundation Ireland funded research programme in equine exercise genomics, the largest of its kind in the world.
Professor Hill is also Chief Science Officer for the equine science company Plusvital Ltd, a world leader in the development and provision of genetic tests for the international Thoroughbred horse racing and breeding industries. She has been at the forefront of Thoroughbred performance genomics during the last decade and has published more scientific papers on equine exercise genomics than any other researcher worldwide.
Emmeline has engaged extensively with the media in recent years to connect with stakeholders in the industry and make her research accessible. As well as contributions to TV, radio and print media, in 2013 she co-produced the short film Bloodline – The Search for Speed, which showcased her SFI-funded research at UCD.
Katie Hannon
Katie Hannon is Prime Time’s Political Correspondent, having previously been Political Correspondent of the Evening Herald and the Irish Examiner and Political Editor of the Irish Mail on Sunday. She is the author of ‘The Naked Politician’, an account of the reality of life in the trenches of Irish politics, published in 2004. Since joining Prime Time as a reporter in 2004 she has covered a wide variety of issues including major investigations into banking, failures in child protection, vaccine trials in children’s homes and the Garda whistleblower controversies. She has won the Irish Goods Council Young Journalist of the Year, the John Healy National Print Award as well as the ‘Story of the Year’ in the 2012 GSK Medical Media Awards and 2017 Justice Media Award for television news.
Róisín Duffy
Is a News Editor with RTÉ in Dublin. She’s been in Broadcasting as a presenter and IFTA nominated documentary maker with the BBC and RTÉ. She knows broadcasting from many angles. She is also a linguist and a former academic. Róisín is the Chair of Women on Air. She is passionate about getting more women’s voices on the airwaves. It is her belief that discussions feed into the national debate and form the first stage in the making of public policy. She has been instrumental in setting up Women On Air’s new media training programme which has facilitated an increasing number of significant female voices on the national and local airwaves.