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Her
academic awards include a John and Pat Hume Scholarship (2013) from Maynooth
University and an Irish Research Council Employment-based PhD Scholarship
(2014). In 2019 she was awarded a Government of Ireland, Irish Research Council
Postdoctoral Fellowship to disseminate the findings of her PhD thesis.
Ann
also has a background in law. Early in her career, she qualified as a Solicitor
and worked for some years in commercial law with McCann FitzGerald, solicitors. She
subsequently changed direction, working for nearly two decades in the NGO
voluntary sector. She was Assistant CEO of Age & Opportunity for over a
decade with responsibility for policy and public affairs, as well as for the organisation’s work on
arts and culture.
In
addition to disability and ageing, her areas of research include equality,
poverty and healthcare, and she has completed a body of research and
policy analysis on these issues for Social Justice Ireland. She has also
extensive experience of public-policy processes across a variety of areas and has
served on several policy and advocacy committees.