Below you can find out about the individuals involved in the core I-PARC Project Team and Research Advisory Panel. Click on the links below to find out more about the organisations they represent.
I-PARC Chair(s)
- Catherine Woods, Professor and Director of Physical Activity for Health, University of Limerick
- Colin O’Hehir, Head of Climate Change and Sustainable Development Goals Unit, Health and Wellbeing Programme, Department of Health
I-PARC Coordinator
- Enrique Garcia Bengoechea, Research & Innovation Unit, Sport ireland
I-PARC Steering Group Members
Health Partners
- Department of Health
- Paul Brosnan, Health and Wellbeing Programme
- 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
- Department of Health Northern Ireland
- Christine Dale, Health Development Policy Branch
- Gary Maxwell, Health Development Policy Branch
- Darren Moan, Health Development Policy Branch
Sport Partners
- Sport Ireland
- Benny Cullen, Director Research & Innovation Unit
- Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Ghaeltacht, Sport and Media
- James Lavelle, Assistant Principal Officer
- Ian Smith, Administrative Officer
Education Partners
- Department of Education and Skills
- Niamh Barry, Post-Primary Inspector
- Ciara Molloy, Curriculum and Assessment Policy Unit
Transport Partners
- Department of Transport
- Sarah Taylor, Assistant Principal
Academic Partners
- University of Limerick
- Liam Kelly, Physical Activity for Health (PAfH) programme manager
- South East Technological University, Waterford
- Niamh Murphy, Professor of Physical Activity and Health
- Ulster University
- Marie Murphy, Professor of Exercise and Health and 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
- Adrian Bauman, University of Sydney
- Nick Cavill, Cavill Associates
- Andy Jones, C3 Collaborating for Health
- Paul Kelly, University of Edinburgh
- Joey Murphy, University of Bristol
- Nanette Mutrie, University of Edinburgh
- Claudio Nigg, University of Bern
- Girish Ramchandani, Sheffield Hallam University
- Femke van Nassau, Amsterdam University Medical Centers
