Below you can find all of the personnel involved in the core I-PARC team and research advisory panel. Find more information about each organisation by clicking below.
I-PARC Chair(s)
- Fiona Mansergh, Assistant Principal for Health and Wellbeing, Department of Health
- Catherine Woods, Director of Physical Activity for Health, University of Limerick
I-PARC Coordinator
- Enrique Garcia Bengoechea, Sport Ireland
I-PARC Team Members
Health Partners
- Department of Health
- Colin O’Hehir, Head of climate change unit
- Health Service Executive
- Sarah O’Brien, National Lead – Healthy Eating an Active Living Policy Programme
- Public Health Agency Northern Ireland
- Colette Brolly, Health and Social Wellbeing Improvement Manager
Sport Partners
- Sport Ireland
- Benny Cullen, Research Director
- Sport Northern Ireland
- Caolan Ward, Policy, Strategy and Insight Manager
- Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Ghaeltacht, Sport and Media
- James Lavelle, Assistant Principal Officer
Education Partners
- Department of Education and Skills
- Niamh Barry, Inspectorate,
- Ronan Kielt, Assistant Principal, Curriculum and Assessment Policy Unit
Transport Partners
- Department of Transport
- Sarah Taylor, Assistant Principal
Academic Partners
- University of Limerick
- Liam Kelly, PAfH programme manager
- South East Technological University, Waterford
- Niamh Murphy, Senior Lecturer in Physical Activity and Health
- Ulster University
- Marie Murphy, Professor of Exercise and health & Director of the Physical Activity for Health Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh
- University College Dublin
- Grainne O’Donoghue, Lecturer / Assistant Professor Physiotherapy, School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science
- Technological University Dublin
- Lorraine D’Arcy, Senior Lecturer in the School of Transport Engineering, Environment & Planning and Co-chair of their new multidisciplinary MSc in Transport and Mobility
Research Advisory Panel and Collaborators
- South East Technological University, Waterford
- Paula Carroll, Department of Sport and Exercise Science
- University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- Paul Kelly, Lecturer in Physical Activity for Health
- Nanette Mutrie, Director of Physical Activity and Health Research Centre, School of Sport, Physical Education and Health Sciences
- Amsterdam UMC, VUmc in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Femke van Nassau, Senior Researcher, Department of Public and Occupational Health and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute
- University of Sydney, Australia
- Adrian Bauman, Professor of Public Health, Sydney School of Public Health
- University of Bristol, England
- Joey Murphy, Lecturer in Nutrition, Physical Activity and Public Health
