I am Professor of Education, Deputy Head of the School of Education and Vice Principal for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the College of Social Sciences and Law, UCD. I have published internationally in the areas of history of women’s education, gender and educational leadership and teacher education policy. I am the Ireland Canada University Foundation Flaherty Visiting Professor, 2017-18, a Fulbright Scholar in the Social Sciences, 2018-19, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (London) and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge 2020-21. I have also held visiting scholar appointments at Boston College and the University of Toronto. Over the course of two decades working in education, I have served on several committees and working groups of the Irish state Department of Education and Skills and the Teaching Council of Ireland and have acted as an international advisor to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Estonian Research Council. I am a member of the Royal Irish Academy Social Sciences Committee and the Public Interest Representative on the Law Society of Ireland Board of Examiners.