Careers beyond academia
Organised by Trinity Careers Service and Trinity Long Room Hub
Monday 20th April, 4-6pm
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Speakers Bios
Name: Felim McGrath
Sector: Market Research
Job Title: Associate Director Global Research department
Employer: GlobalWebIndex
Felim McGrath is Associate Director of the Global Research department at GlobalWebIndex. He was formerly Senior Manager in the Insights department. GlobalWebIndex is a market research company that provides audience profiling data across 46 countries to the world’s largest brands, marketing agencies and media organizations.
Felim studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and the University of Cambridge before beginning a career in consumer insights. At GlobalWebIndex, he has led the Trends & Insights teams, who use the proprietary survey data that GWI collects to analyse trends in consumer behaviour and create insights to inform the marketing and strategy decisions of companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Spotify. These insights are packaged in form of reports, infographics, presentations, webinars and podcasts. He now leads the research best practice initiatives of the Global Research department, as well as projects to educate clients and colleagues on GWI's research methodology.
He is a contributor to publications such as Bloomberg, The Independent, The Drum, and Campaign Magazine, and a regular conference speaker.
Name: Eve Cobain
Sector: NGO (Adult and Community Education)
Organisation: AONTAS
Job Title: Research Officer
Course completed: PhD in 20th Century American Poetry
After completing a PhD at the School of English (TCD) in 2017, I worked as an Occasional Lecturer at TCD and Maynooth while providing part-time research support at the Trinity Long Room Hub. In August 2019 I took up a position at AONTAS, the National Adult Learning Organisation, where I now support the delivery of AONTAS’ research initiative with a particular focus on community education. Through this work, I will pilot a Community Education Census. I also help to administer the organisation’s peer-reviewed journal, The Adult Learner.
Name: Karolina Badzmierowska
Sector: Creative industry
Job Title: Heritage Account Manager
Employer: Noho
Course completed at TCD: PhD Structured Programme in Digital Arts and Humanities (History of Art and Architecture), 2012-2018
Karolina completed a Structured PhD Programme in Digital Arts and Humanities in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Trinity College Dublin, where she was awarded Postgraduate Research Studentship in 2013. She has a MA in History of Art and Architecture from University of Limerick and a BA in Art History from University of Gdansk. Karolina’s doctoral research explored digital methodologies in art history with a focus on the concepts of thematic research collections and virtual research environments.
Her career to date combines strong interests in heritage, museums, technology and art history. She worked as an Education Officer at the Hunt Museum in Limerick, Ireland and completed a marketing internship at the National Museum of Ireland. She also worked on the first public humanities project in Ireland, the Letters of 1916. Her experience at Trinity College Dublin and Maynooth University in the past included topics such as digital humanities and (digital) art history.
Karolina joined Noho in 2017. Her role involves business development, digital marketing, communications, design and liaising with EU- funded projects such as CEMEC, EMOTIVE, Share3D and MEMEX. Karolina’s expertise lies in understanding heritage clients and identifying new opportunities and creative ideas.
Name: Martin Wall
Sector: International Affairs
Job title: Deputy Director United Nations and International Financial Institutions Unit, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Course Completed: PhD History, UCC, 2012; BA (Single Honours) History, UCC 2006; Certificate in Leadership and Management, Hertie School of Governance Berlin, 2019
Martin works for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade where he is a Deputy Director in the United Nations and International Financial Institutions Unit in the Development Cooperation and Africa Division. Prior to taking up his role with DFAT, Martin was an Irish Research Council/European Commission CAROLINE Fellow where he spent almost two years on a placement with Berlin based think tank Adelphi working on issues around climate change, fragility and security. Martin has also spent a number of years working in University College Cork on maritime and energy issues at the Science Foundation Ireland MaREI Centre and the Irish Maritime and Energy Resource Cluster as well as an intern with the European Commission in Brussels. He holds a PhD in History from UCC which focused on Ireland’s relationship with the European Economic Community during its early years of membership from 1973-1977. He held an Irish Research Council Scholarship during this time. He has an undergraduate degree from UCC and a Certificate in Leadership and Management from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.
Name: Hillary Ray
Sector: Financial Services
Job title: Senior regulatory lawyer
Courses completed:
LLB Australian National University
PhD Trinity College, University of Cambridge (History and Philosophy of Science)
Law Tripos Part IB, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
MA, Hunter College, City University of New York (History and Philosophy of Science)
BA (Hons), Hunter College, City University of New York
Hillary Ray grew up in Los Angeles, Paris and New York. She has worked in the fine arts business and at a museum in the US, and as a lawyer in London, Paris and most recently in Sydney. She is best known as a regulatory specialist in financial services law for both advisory and enforcement work, representing domestic and international clients. Hillary has worked as a lawyer for in-house roles, for ASIC, the Australian conduct regulator, and as a partner in private practice. She remains involved in the arts and sits on the board of a theatre company based in Sydney. Hillary is a proud Irish citizen by descent and has just moved to Dublin after living in Australia for 20 years.
Name: Adam Bargroff
Sector: Technology and public policy
Role: Privacy and Public Policy Manager
Employer: Facebook
Adam received a PhD in literature and critical theory from Queen’s University Belfast and a postgrad certification in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Trinity College Dublin in partnership with Queen’s and UCD.
He has a background in policy and innovation across the youth and community, education, government and tech sectors, with stints driving collaborative projects at the European Commission and at the social enterprise Camara Education, where he built partnerships with Khan Academy and Google for Education.
He joined the data leadership team at Facebook in 2017 to focus on longer-term research and development initiatives, including an internal and external innovation program that applies design thinking to digital policy challenges.