Associate Professor Marguerite Clyne, UCD School of Medicine

Marguerite Clyne holds a degree and PhD in Microbiology and her research interest is in microbial pathogenesis. She is the Associate Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the School. She teaches cell biology and microbiology to undergraduate medical and science students and runs the translational medicine programme for graduate research students. She also is module co-ordinator for the Teaching in Higher Education Module for graduate research students in the School of Medicine who are involved in teaching undergraduate students.  

 

 

Dr Sheena Hyland, UCD Teaching and Learning

Sheena Hyland holds a PhD from UCD’s School of Philosophy and an MA in Teaching and Learning in Higher and Professional Education from the Institute of Education, University College London. She is Assistant Professor in Educational Development and module coordinator of Teaching Across Cultures and Designing Curricula on the University Teaching and Learning programmes. Her research and teaching interests include inclusive and intercultural learning, professional identity in higher education, educational assessment and feedback, and the philosophy of higher education. 

 

 

Dr Gabriela Martínez Sainz, UCD School of Education 

Gabriela Martínez Sainz is an educator and researcher specialised in children's rights, global citizenship and education for sustainable development. Her work focuses on understanding how key elements essential for global, plural and sustainable societies –such as sustainability, human rights and citizenship– are taught and learnt. At UCD, Gabriela is co-convener of the Rights Education Network (REN) and Director of the Voice, Agency and Rights in Education (VARiE) research group. Gabriela is an intersectional feminist, an advocate of children and young people's rights and supporter of a radical education.

 

 

 Associate Professor Cliona O’Sullivan, UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science

Cliona O’Sullivan is a physiotherapist and Associate Professor at University College Dublin, (UCD). She graduated from Robert Gordon University, Scotland in 1997 and worked for 10 years in a variety of clinical areas in Ireland, Scotland and Burkina Faso, West Africa. She holds an MSc in Community Health from Trinity College Dublin (2004) and PhD from UCD (2010). Cliona has a keen interest in global health and endeavours to foster an awareness of global health issues among students. She is a member of Universitas 21 Health Sciences Group SDG Initiative since 2019. She has developed international interdisciplinary clinical placements in India and Uganda with UCD Volunteer Overseas (UCDVO) and a partnership with the Physiotherapy School at Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda. She has embedded Global Health into the Physiotherapy curriculum and coordinates a global health module on a new online MSc Sustainable Development in UCD. Her research spans musculoskeletal health, health systems and global health and she collaborates with international universities and non-governmental organisations. In 2017, she was SUDA education mentor with World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) and Humanity and Inclusion to strengthen capacity in physiotherapy education in Niger, West Africa, (http://www.wcpt.org/suda). Dr O'Sullivan is Associate Dean for Global Engagement in the UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, a former board member of UCDVO and current board member of the UCD Centre for Humanitarian Action. 

 

Associate Professor Aideen Quilty, UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice

Aideen Quilty is a social justice advocate whose interdisciplinary scholarship draws on queer, feminist and spatial theories. She was appointed Associate Dean of Social Sciences in 2020 and is Director of the nationally recognised Gender Studies Community University Outreach Programme. She views her undergraduate, community outreach and graduate teaching as a form of critical civic practice. This reflects her understanding of education as a deeply political act, interconnected with our complex social lifeworlds. She was appointed to the prestigious Royal Irish Academy Social Sciences multidisciplinary committee in 2022 and to the editorial board of SAGE's new Diversity & Social Justice collection (2022). She has been Principal Investigator (PI) on a number of LGBTQI+ transnational European research projects and has received numerous awards including: University Outstanding Achievement Award (2017) for her career long commitment to widening participation; Values in Action award (2020) for her work as academic lead on UCD’s successful Active Bystander Programme; and a Teaching and Learning Fellowship (2019-21) to advance research in intercultural education.

 

Dr Krisna Ruette-Orihuela, UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice

Krisna Ruette-Orihuela is an assistant professor at the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, at UCD. Her teaching and research focus on the intersection of racial, ethnic, and gender identities, racism and anti-racism, transformative peacebuilding, ethno-racial movements, state multiculturalism, interculturality and social justice. Drawing on political ethnography, intersectional and de-colonial approaches she has coordinated collaborative pedagogical research projects and popular education workshops with indigenous, Afro-descendant, peasant and women organisations in Venezuela and Colombia. 

 

 

Dr Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila, UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice

Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila is an Assistant Professor and Director of Teaching and Learning at the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice. He is a medical anthropologist and has published on areas of transnational migration, global health, masculinities, sexualities and sexual and reproductive rights. He teaches “Masculinities”; “Culture and Sexualities”, “Global Justice”. He has previously taught at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima; Georgetown University, Washington, DC; and at the University of the Philippines, Manila.