Board of Directors
Dr Fiachra O’Suilleabháin
Lecturer in Social Work, UCC
Board Member and Chair of the Finance and Fundraising Committee
Fiachra’s background and experience
I currently work as part of a multi-disciplinary Master of Social Work team delivering a professionally accredited, two-year taught postgraduate programme to students who wish to become Social Workers. On that specific programme, I teach and mentor students’ practice skills and lectures on research methods, investigative interviewing, child protection and welfare, and professional practice.
As a professionally qualified, CORU registered Social Worker, I also have extensive practice experience in the Social Work sector and I was the Manager of a regional multi-disciplinary child sexual abuse assessment unit within the Child and Family Agency (TUSLA) for nine years.
I am actively involved in research about the experiences of trans youth in Ireland; social work practice in the area of alleged sexual abuse and harmful sexual behaviour; activism in social work; and social work education.
Fiachra’s qualifications
PhD in Social Science (UCC); Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (UCC); Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (UCC); MA in Social Work (UCC); BA in Social Science (UCC).