Research Week Launch: Striving for Excellence with ERC

Professor Norelee Kennedy, Vice President Research in conversation with Professor Mike Quayle, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Health Sciences. Professor Quayle is also a Funded Investigator with Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software based at UL, and recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant for the project ID-COMPRESSION.

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Professor Norelee Kennedy

Professor Norelee Kennedy, Vice President Research in conversation with Professor Mike Quayle, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Health Sciences. Professor Quayle is also a Funded Investigator with Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software based at UL, and recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant for the project ID-COMPRESSION.Norelee Kennedy is the Vice President Research and an Associate Professor of Physiotherapy in the School of Allied Health at the University of Limerick. She graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a BSc in Physiotherapy in 1999 and a PhD (2004) the field of physiotherapy and rheumatology. She also has a Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics (TCD 2000) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (NUI Galway 2004).  

 Norelee was appointed as Lecturer in Physiotherapy at UL in 2004, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2015 and Associate Professor in 2018. She was the Head of School of Allied Health, UL from 2014-2019. During that time she oversaw the first external quality review of the school, six regulatory body programme approvals and monitorings of professional programmes as well as the establishment of two new professional graduate entry programmes in Physiotherapy and Human Nutrition & Dietetics. She managed over 50 staff in the school delivering programmes to c400 students across the four disciplines of Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech & Language Therapy and Dietetics. She also co-led the successful first School of Allied Health Athena SWAN  application for a Bronze award in 2018. 

Professor Michael Quayle

Psychologist at the University of Limerick and honorary Senior lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Research areas explores identity, and how active identity production impacts on psychological experiences and outcomes.Professor Mike Quayle of UL’s Department of Psychology and a Funded Investigator with Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software based at UL, has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for the project ID-COMPRESSION.