Gemma.Irvine

User profile

Dr

Gemma

Irvine

Ireland

Area of expertise, interest, main activities...: 

high education, equality and diversity, diversity and inclusion, Gender Equality Action Plans

About you (please use English): 

Dr Gemma Irvine is currently Vice-President for Equality & Diversity in Maynooth University with responsibility for leading strategic change in the areas of equality, diversity, inclusion and inter-culturalism across the entire University community, students and staff. Dr Irvine also has oversight of the expansion and enhancement of access and widening participation programmes to ensure the University is inclusive for all students. Previously as Head of Policy and Strategic Planning in the Higher Education Authority (HEA), Dr Irvine coordinated a national approach to the development and implementation of policy for higher education, with specific responsibility for the enhancement of teaching and learning, research including open science, international education and equality, diversity and inclusion. Dr Irvine led the secretariat for the Irish National Review of Gender Equality in Irish Higher Education Institutions, 2016 and the Gender Equality Taskforce, 2018. Dr Irvine is the Irish National Delegate for the ERAC Standing Working Group for Gender in Research and Innovation (ERAC SWG GRI) and previously was the Irish Delegate for the ‘European Universities Network’ initiative, for SSH in H2020 and for Research Infrastructures in the FP7 EU Programme. In 2012, Dr Irvine coordinated the operational merger of the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) and the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) into the Irish Research Council (IRC), becoming the Assistant Director of the IRC. Dr Irvine was responsible for coordinating the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI) when she first moved into the HEA in 2007. Prior to that Dr Irvine completed her Masters and PhD in Neuroscience in New Zealand before coming to Ireland in 2004 to work as a Research Fellow in Trinity College Dublin.

Scientific discipline: 

Natural sciences, Other natural sciences, Interdisciplinary

Stakeholder group: 

Science stakeholders, Policy stakeholders, Gender equality stakeholders

GenPORT Gender Expert2Expert Directory

Would you like to form part of the GenPORT Gender Expert database?: 

Yes

Area of Gender Expertise: 

Gender

Innovation and diversity (e.g. gender)

Country coverage: 

Europe

Skills and track record: 

Currently Vice-President for Equality & Diversity in Maynooth University, Ireland Previously Head of Policy and Strategic Planning in the Higher Education Authority (HEA) with specific responsibility for equality, diversity and inclusion. Dr Irvine led the secretariat for the Irish National Review of Gender Equality in Irish Higher Education Institutions, 2016 and the Gender Equality Taskforce, 2018. Dr Irvine is an Irish National Delegate for the ERAC Standing Working Group for Gender in Research and Innovation (ERAC SWG GRI)