Academic Integrity Unit, Plassey House-University of Limerick, Sreelane, Limerick, V94 PX58
Dr Mary-Claire Kennedy, Academic Integrity Lead
Mary-Claire is the Academic Integrity Lead at University of Limerick. She has experience in supporting students and academics in upholding academic integrity and managing academic misconduct cases.
She holds a BSc (Pharm) from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and is a Trinity Scholar ‘of the Sevens’. She was awarded an MPharm from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2010 and completed her PhD with the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, TCD in 2015. This PhD was undertaken through the Health Research Board (HRB) PhD Scholars Programme in Health Services Research. Mary-Claire worked as a community pharmacist and completed a Post-Graduate Diploma in Statistics with TCD while completing her PhD research.
Moving to the University of Leeds in 2015, she was Programme Lead for Independent and Supplementary Prescribing for Pharmacists, Nurses and Allied Health Professionals in the School of Healthcare and was appointed Academic Integrity Lead during her time with the School. She completed an M(Ed) with the University of Leeds in 2020 and also became a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (or Advance HE). Returning to Ireland in 2022, she worked with the Irish Institute of Pharmacy. She completed a Professional Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring with Kingstown College in 2023.
Dr Fionn McGrath, Academic Integrity Educational Developer
Fionn is the newly appointed Educational Developer in Academic Integrity (2023). His background is primarily in philosophy, he holds a particularly strong interest in social theory, technological change and education. He holds a BA in Philosophy and Sociology (Joint Honours, UCC ‘07), a MA in Philosophy (1st, UCC ’08) and a PhD in Socio-Political Philosophy (UCD ’19). He also holds a H. Dip in Data Analysis (NUIG ’21). Fionn has held numerous teaching and research roles across a broad range of disciplines including sociology, political science and computer science in UCC, UCD, Trinty and NUIG. His most recent role was as a lecturer and teaching assistant in Business Information Management, with a focus on data, decision making and organisational transformation in the Department of Management and Marketing in UL’s Kemmy Business School.
Dr Silvia Benini, Academic Integrity Educational Developer
Silvia holds a PhD from the University of Limerick. She has been involved as senior researcher and educational developer in various national and international projects related to Education and Technology, Modern Languages, Digital Citizenship and Artificial Intelligence. She has been working as lecturer on different topics including Language and Technology, Digital Literacies, Language Learning Strategies, Academic English, Corpus Linguistics and Games Analysis to both under graduate and postgraduate students as well as module designer and lecturer in Italian Language and Culture.
She is an executive committee member of IRAAL (Irish Association for Applied Linguistics), member of the LITHME-WG5 COST Action and member of CALS (Centre for Applied Language Studies).