Team
Kieran Walsh | Director
Kieran Walsh is Project Director of Project Lifecourse and Acting Director of the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, at the Institute for Lifecourse and Society in University of Galway. Kieran’s work concentrates on key life course societal issues such as social exclusion, independent living, infrastructures of care, structural inequalities and the role of place and community in mediating and protecting against disadvantage across the life course. Kieran has over 15 years’ experience in designing, coordinating and conducting applied social science research in interdisciplinary environments and working across multi-site and cross-national research projects.
Keith Egan | Research Fellow
Keith Egan is a Research Fellow on Project Lifecourse, where he studies well-being, resilience, and service provision across the life span. Trained as an anthropologist, his research spans religion and identity in Ireland and Europe, social medicine and medical training, and socio-economic theories of debt and recovery. He has over three years’ experience in applied research on well-being and resilience, particularly for children and people with intellectual disabilities, and works at the intersection of academic research and policy to support more inclusive social services.
Christine Fitzgerald | Research Assistant
Christine Fitzgerald is a Research Assistant on the 3-Cities Project with Project Lifecourse, Christine is in the final stages of a PhD in University of Galway with the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology and the Discipline of Marketing, which investigates behaviour change surrounding the Meals on Wheels service using community research approach. With a background in health care, completing a BSc in Nursing and an MA in Health Promotion, her research interests include community research, lifecourse development and health behaviour.
Shauna Diamond | Research Assistant
Shauna Diamond is a Research Assistant with the 3-Cities Project with Project Lifecourse. Shauna's key interests relate to holistic health perspectives, underpinned by her BSc in Health Promotion and Public Health and her MA in Community Development. She has experience in a variety of community roles, working with children and youth as well as older people. The area of Travellers Rights is of particular interest for Shauna, where she has researched the use of a participatory model in engaging Travellers.
Alexandra Revez | Administrator
Alexandra Revez is a human geographer specializing in community development, vulnerability, and environmental management. Her PhD examined local capacities to address flooding in rural and urban Ireland, critically engaging with state-led risk approaches and environmental justice. She is a member of the EU-funded ANDROID Disaster Resilience Network, where she co-organised the Doctoral School Programme and contributed to research on interdisciplinarity in disaster studies across Europe.
Sandra Hallinan | Administrative Assistant
Sandra joined the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology as Administrative Assistant in April 2012 and brings many years of experience in university support services at University of Galway. Over the course of her career, she has worked in a range of administrative roles across the Admissions Office, Engineering Faculty, and Disability Support Services, developing strong expertise in student and academic support. At the Institute for Lifecourse & Society, Sandra has specific responsibility for the administration of Project Lifecourse, where she plays a key role in coordinating activities and supporting the wider research team.
