People

Lorraine Leeson

Associate Vice Provost for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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Lorraine oversees and promotes the College’s equality policies and leads Trinity’s Athena Swan Gender Action Plan. She reports to the Vice-Provost, is a member of Trinity’s Executive Officer’s Group and Chairs the University Athena Swan Committee. She works on EDI with national and international partners through LERU, COIMBRA, as well as through the national VPEDI and Athena Swan committees.

Siobán O’Brien Green

Head of EDI

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Siobán is responsible for leading and coordinating Trinity’s EDI efforts, as well as the leadership and development the EDI Office team. She also provides strategic advice and guidance on equality and diversity matters to senior leaders in the University.

Joel McKeever

Acting Equality Officer

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Joel is Acting Equality Officer, and works to promote equality and non-discrimination for Trinity staff, students and the wider Trinity community, in all areas of university life and with particular regard to the protected grounds in equality legislation.

Claire Marshall

Equality Officer

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Claire is currently on leave.

Susan Cantwell

Executive officer

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Susan provides a full range of administrative support for the EDI Office and manages all web content.

Samantha Williams

EDI Data Analyst and Athena Swan Officer

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Sam collaborates closely with colleagues across TCD in Schools and Professional Units to support and guide areas in engaging with and implementing Athena Swan locally. She also supports institutional Athena Swan monitoring and conducts data collection and analysis that creates a strong evidence-base for our actions.

Bernadette Ferguson

Irish Sign Language/English interpreter

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Bernadette works as part of a Trinity College in-house Irish Sign Language/English interpreting team. The ISL interpreters work closely with the EDI team and provide a service for members of staff and events across campus.

Gemma Shannon

Assistant Irish Sign Language/English interpreter

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Gemma is a Trinity graduate and one of two new in-house Irish Sign Language/ English interpreters providing ISL/English interpretation for Trinity College Dublin Staff. They are working towards enhancing opportunities and engagement between Deaf and hearing members of the Trinity Community.

Trinity Inclusive Curriculum Project

Based in the EDI Office, the Trinity Inclusive Curriculum Project (Trinity-INC) commenced in October 2020, with the mandate to embed the principles of diversity, equality and inclusion across all curricula at Trinity College Dublin.

Rachel Hoare

Academic Project Director

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Rachel leads the project, and acts as the Academic Director. Rachel is Assistant Professor in the Department of French, in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies.

Derina Johnson

Project Manager

Derina is responsible for the everyday management and delivery of the Trinity-INC Project, ensuring its strategic objectives are met across the Project goals and within reporting and financial parameters.

Sean Adderley

Student Partner Liaison Officer

Sean coordinates the Student Partner Programme of the Trinity-INC project, working with students from across Trinity to raise awareness of experiences of inclusion and exclusion within curricula, and to develop an evidence-base to inform the overall Trinity-INC project activities.

Learn more about the Trinity Inclusive Curriculum Project