Vice-Provost and Chief Academic Officer & Deputy President*

Professor Linda Hogan was appointed to the role of Vice-Provost and Chief Academic Officer in September 2011. She is the senior academic officer with responsibility for the academic affairs of the university, and deputizes for the Provost as required. She is an ex officio member of the Executive Officers Group, the university’s Senior Management Team, along with the Provost, Chief Operating Officer and the Faculty Deans.

Prof Hogan is Professor of Ecumenics and a Fellow of TCD.  She is a theological ethicist with research interests in the field of social and political ethics.  She has published widely on the ethics of human rights, on intercultural ethics, and on gender. She has been the principal investigator on a number of research projects focussing on religious pluralism and inter-religious ethics. 

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Bursar & Director of Strategic Innovation*

Dr Gerard Lacey was appointed Bursar and Director of Strategic Innovation in 2012. This role entails providing strategic leadership in the overall development of the campus and administrative services to ensure alignment to the overall strategic objectives of College. The Bursar and Director of Strategic Innovation is an ex officio member of the Executive Officers Group, the university’s Senior Management Team, along with the Provost, Vice-Provost/Chief Academic Officer and the Faculty Deans. He is an ex officio member the Finance and Investment board committees and chair the Space Allocation and Capital Projects sub-committees of the Executive Officer Group.

Dr Gerard Lacey graduated in Computer Engineering from Trinity College Dublin in 1991.  His research spans factory automation, mobile robotics and interactive systems. In 2000, he founded a TCD spin-off company Haptica Ltd where he was CEO and subsequently CTO until 2005.  Haptica developed surgical simulation equipment for medical schools and medical device companies.  Haptica’s products won several international innovation awards including a European IST prize and the Irish Software Association Technology Innovation award.  Haptica was acquired by CAE Healthcare in 2011. 

Since his return to academia, Dr Lacey was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 2008 and completed an MBA in 2009.  He has a track record of research commercialisation, in addition to founding Haptica he also founded GLANTA Ltd in 2010 to commercialise the SureWash hand hygiene training system and in 2012 the Wingwatch aircraft collision warning system was licensed to CMC Electronics.  In 2011, he was awarded the Enterprise Ireland ICT commercialisation award and in 2012, the Trinity College Innovation Award.

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Registrar*

Professor Shane Allwright is the Registrar and has statutory responsibility for the records of both Trinity College Dublin and the University of Dublin. (Trinity College Dublin is the sole constituent College of the University of Dublin, established by Queen Elizabeth I in 1592. For most practical purposes, Trinity College and the University of Dublin may be regarded as one and the same institution. However, degrees are awarded by the University of Dublin, not Trinity College, and this is the main instance when the roles of the two bodies diverge).

As such, the Registrar is the only College Officer of both Trinity College Dublin and the University of Dublin. She is custodian of the Statutes and responsible for all graduation ceremonies.  She chairs the Academic Appeals Committee and the Student Disciplinary Committee.  The Registrar also oversees the College’s inter-institutional relationships within Ireland and internationally.

Prof Allwright is an Associate Professor/a Professor in Epidemiology in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, School of Medicine. A graduate of TCD, she holds an MSc in Epidemiology from the University of California and a PhD from TCD. She was elected to Fellowship of the College in 2007.  She has acted as Head of Department (1991-1993) and has served two terms on Board.

Her research interests are the health effects of passive smoking and of alcohol misuse; asthma and other respiratory diseases; and bloodborne viruses and prisoner health. She was a Board member of the Office of Tobacco Control and chaired the Scientific Review Group commissioned by the Minister for Health and Children to Report on the health effects of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in the workplace. This report was critical to the introduction of the Irish legislation banning workplace smoking. She is a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health and in 2011 was admitted as an Honorary Fellow to the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.

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Dean & Vice-President for Research*

Prof Vinny Cahill was appointed Dean of Research in September 2011. The Dean of Research has responsibility for coordinating and overseeing the university’s research, innovation, technology transfer, and entrepreneurship strategies. Prof Cahill has previously served as Head of the Department of Computer Science and Director of Research for Computer Science and Statistics. He combines his role with teaching and research in the field of distributed computing systems.

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Dean of Graduate Studies*

Professor Veronica Campbell was appointed Dean of Graduate Studies in 2010 with responsibility for the coordination and development of academic policy in postgraduate education. Professor Campbell was awarded her BSc in Pharmacology from the University of Edinburgh in 1991 and was awarded a Wellcome Trust PhD Studentship to pursue her doctoral training in the University of London (1991-95). She has been a member of the academic staff in the School of Medicine, TCD since 1998 and was elected to Fellowship in 2004. She has served as a College tutor (2000-2010) and Head of Discipline of Physiology (2006-2010).

Professor Campbell is a principal investigator in the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering. Her research interests are in cell biology and current projects are elucidating novel pathways relevant to Alzheimer’s disease and the control of adult stem cell biology for skeletal tissue engineering. This research, which has received funding from SFI, the Health Research Board and Enterprise Ireland, has supported 11 PhD students to date.

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Senior Lecturer*

Dr Patrick Geoghegan is the College’s Senior Lecturer whose role is to coordinate undergraduate teaching and learning and oversee admissions. An historian in the School of Histories and Humanities, Dr Geoghegan has published books on the Irish Act of Union, Robert Emmet, and a two-volume study of Daniel O’Connell.  He has taught on the Trinity Access Programme since 1999 and in the Department of History since 2001.  Elected to Fellowship of the College (FTCD) in May 2008, he served as Associate Dean of Research from March 2010 to August 2011.

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Dean of Students*

Dr Amanda Piesse is the Dean of Students and focuses on the development and coordination of policies to promote the student experience. Dr Piesse came from a lectureship at Durham University to work in the School of English at Trinity in 1996, having completed her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at St John’s College Oxford. In 2003, she was promoted to a senior lectureship, elected to Fellowship and won a Provost’s Teaching Award .

She has been a College Tutor since 1996 and has previously served on the Graduate Studies Committee [1999-2002], as a junior representative to Council [2000-2002], a Fellows’ representative to Board [2005-10], as Chair of the Student Services Committee [2007-10] and as Secretary to the Fellows [2004-6]. Her academic interests are in early modern drama and in literature for children, and she is co-director of the new M Phil in Children’s Literature in the School of English. Other interests include running (she ran the Dublin city marathon in 2009 as part of the Trinity Takes To The Streets initiative, to raise money for the College student hardship fund), singing (she has sung in numerous choirs including the RTE Philharmonic) and theatre (she has been president of DU Players since 2004).  Her son Arthur took his degree in mathematics  at Trinity 2005-9, and her daughter wants to come here to read English in the not-too-distant future.

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Senior Tutor*

Dr Claire Laudet is the Senior Tutor and oversees the tutorial service provided to undergraduate students offering student support in all aspects of College life.  This post is elected from amongst the Tutors. Dr Laudet joined Trinity College in 1989 and was appointed to set up the French language option in BESS. She joined the French Department as a Lecturer in French in 1991 and became a College Tutor in 1995. She has served on various College Committees such as Junior and Senior Promotions, Academic Appeals Committee, the International Committee and was elected to Council, representing AHSS in 2008. She was also Senior Tutor between 2001 and 2006.

Dr Laudet's research interests are second language acquisition, focusing on the role of feedback in developing writing skills and students in transition with a particular interest for the First Year experience of third level students.  She is actively involved in the Confederation of Student Services in Ireland.

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Senior Dean

Professor Moray McGowan is the Senior Dean and is responsible for enquiring into alleged breaches of the College Disciplinary Code by members of the academic staff and for taking further action in accordance with College regulations and statutes.  The Senior Dean is also responsible for allocating rooms for academic members of staff. He chairs the Capitation Committee which apportions the capitation fund to the Capitated Bodies inter alia. Professor McGowan holds the Chair of German (1776) at Trinity College.  

His research in modern German studies focuses on literature and theatre, with particular interests in literature and migration, in ideas and constructions of Europe, and in the theatre of the German Democratic Republic before and during the state’s collapse. He is currently also Head of the Department of Germanic Studies and Director of the Two Subject Moderatorship degree programme..

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Junior Dean

Dr Tim Trimble, in his role as Junior Dean, is responsible for maintaining discipline and good order among students and he investigates the alleged commission of disciplinary offences by students.  As Registrar of Chambers, he allocates residential rooms to students on campus, on behalf of the Provost. Dr Trimble is Course Director of the MSc in Applied Psychology at Trinity College Dublin. 

He is currently Principal Investigator across a range of research projects in the domains of adolescent mental health, police and military leadership and management and security.  These projects include policing in various countries and jurisdictions, and both military and private security operations in conflict theatres worldwide.  He is currently developing the application of psychological measurement to economic empowerment projects in the Middle East and South Africa.  Additionally, he is an active committee member of the Psychological Society of Ireland.

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Senior Proctor

Dr John Graham is the Senior Proctor.  The Proctors have and exercise responsibilities with regard to supplicating the Senate for degrees. Dr Graham is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geology.  He has published numerous papers with his research interests focusing on Clastic sediments; the geology of Ireland particularly Carboniferous, Devonian and Ordovician; Provenance Studies and the Variscan fold belt.  Dr Graham is a member of the International Association of Sedimentologists, the Society of Economic Palaeontologists and Mineralogists and the Irish Geological Association. 

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Junior Proctor

Professor Pete Humphries is the Junior Proctor.  The Proctors have and exercise responsibilities with regard to supplicating the Senate for degrees. Prof Humphries is a Professor of Medical Molecular Genetics in the Department of Genetics in Trinity College.  His research investigates the molecular genetics of degenerative diseases of the retina. Current research involves ongoing studies of the molecular genetics of RP and related conditions and the development of novel therapeutics based upon such knowledge.

Future projects will include quantitative analysis of retinal transcripts in respect to therapeutic approaches targeting transcripts from retinopathy genes and assessment of techniques for delivery to ocular tissue of potentially therapeutic materials, including use of iontophoresis and electroporation.

Prof Humphries is a member of the Retina International (IRPA)-Scientific and Medical Advisory Board, Foundation Fighting Blindness (USA) (Focus Group on Genetics and Genetic Technology), Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Association (DEBRA) (International Medical and Scientific Advisory Board), Alcon Research Institute (USA) and is also Communicating Editor of Human Mutation.

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Public Orator

Professor Anna Chahoud is the Public Orator and is responsible for the Latin orations at commencements at which honorary degrees are conferred and on other ceremonial occasions. Professor Chahoud holds the Chair of Latin and is based in the Department of Classics at Trinity College.  She studied Classics in Bologna (Laurea in Lettere Classiche) and Pisa (PhD), and worked in England before coming to Ireland in 1999. Her research concentrates on early Latin and the transmission of Latin texts from antiquity to the early modern period.

Professor Chahoud is the author of a systematic study of Lucilius, the 'inventor' of Roman satire, of articles on Republican Latin and the grammatical tradition, and co-editor of Colloquial and Literary Latin. She has contributed to the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.  Professor Chahoud is a member of the editorial board of the Bryn Mawr Classical Review and a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin.

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Community Liaison Officer

Professor Ciaran Brady is the Community Liaison Officer and Associate Professor in the Department of History in Trinity College.  The Community Liaison Officer facilitates College’s engagement with society and is committed to encouraging inclusive access to the College community, to promoting wide participation in its activities, and to developing and enhancing the diverse ways in which it engages with the wider world.

Prof Brady is Associate Professor in Modern History and a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland, 1536–1588 (Cambridge, 1994) and Shane O’Neill (Dundalk, 1996) and the editor of a variety of works on early modern Irish history and Irish historiography. He is currently engaged on a study of the nineteenth-century historian, James Anthony Froude.

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