Associate Professor Mary-Ann O’Donovan

Associate Professor Mary-Ann O’Donovan PhD, MPhil, BSc (Mgt) has recently been appointed as the new Executive Director of Centre for Disability Studies and the Australian College for Disability and Community Services. She comes from the School of Education, Trinity College Dublin. She has a breadth of research experience - management of national disability databases, analysis of large data sets, qualitative research, policy content analysis. She has a particular interest in inclusive practice and policy that informs people with disability to engage in further education and employment. She has been in involved in larger search projects that have studied the health and wellbeing of people with intellectual disability.

As Assistant Professor in Intellectual Disability and Inclusion within the School of Education, Trinity College Dublin, Mary-Ann was the course coordinator for the Fetac Level 5 Certificate in Arts, Science and Applied Inclusive Practice for People with Intellectual Disabilities within the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities (TCPID).

Mary-Ann was an Alumnus of the HRB SPHERE program, completing her PHD in Health Services Research and Population Health Sciences in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 2015. The PhD focused on the health and housing needs and later life transitions of older people with an intellectual disability. Previous work experience includes Project Manager of the IDS-TILDA study, management of the Department of Health's National Physical and Sensory Disability Database(NPSDD) in the Health Research Board, research officer in the National Disability Authority and the Rehab Group.

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