DrMary Rose Sweeney

Executive Vice Dean - Education

Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery

  • Executive Vice Dean - Education
    Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery

BIOGRAPHY

I am the Executive Vice Dean for Education, in the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, RCSI. My role is to develop CPDs to support nurses and midwives and other health and social care professionals to enhance their personal development and professional practice. I am a Senior Fellow of Advance HE, UK and am currently an external examiner for UCC, BSc in Public Health Sciences. I am a register general nurse and had a BSc (Hons) in Human Nutrition and PhD in the area of public health nutrition.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • External Examiner
    University College Cork, School of Public Health, Cork, Ireland1 Sep 2022 - 31 Aug 2025
  • Executive Vice Dean for Education
    Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery, Dublin, IrelandJun 2023
  • Head of School, School of Nursing, Psychotherapy & Community Health
    Dublin City University, Dublin, IrelandSep 2019 - Aug 2022
  • Associate Dean for Research, School of Nursing. Psychotherapy & Community Health
    Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland2014 - 2017
  • Deputy Head of School, School of Nursing. Psychotherapy & Community Health
    Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland2011 - 2014
  • Director Healthy Living Centre
    Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland2010 - 2011
  • Programme Chair M.Sc. Child Health
    University College Dublin, School of Public Health, Dublin, Ireland2007 - 2008
  • Post-Doctoral Researcher All-Ireland Travellers Health Study Research Programme Director Transfusion Research Network Ireland
    University College Dublin, School of Public Health, Dublin, Ireland2003 - 2007
  • Part-time lecturer
    University College Dublin, School of Nursing and Midwifery & Health Systems, Dublin, Ireland2002 - 2004
  • Post-Doctoral Researcher SurGen
    Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland2000 - 2001

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Part-time staff Nurse/agency nurse (while undertaking my degree & Ph.D. studies)
    St. James Hospital and all Dublin Hospitals, Dublin, Ireland1993 - 1999
  • Staff Nurse – fulltime
    Eye & Ear Hospital, Dublin, Ireland1992 - 1993
  • Staff Nurse – fulltime
    St. James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland1990 - 1992

DEGREES

  • PhD
    Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland2000
  • B.Sc. (Honours)
    University of Ulster, Coleraine, United Kingdom1996

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (UNSDGS)

  • 3 Good Health and Well Being

RESEARCH CLUSTERS