Jackie Gorman is a poet from Athlone whose work has been published in a number of publications, including The Honest Ulsterman, Poetry Ireland Review, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, The Lonely Crowd, and Obsessed With Pipework. She was runner-up in the Waterford Poetry Prize 2025. She won the Listowel Writers Week…
Clodagh Beresford Dunne was born in Dublin and raised in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. She was awarded the Emerging Writer Award, Agility Award, and a Travel and Training Award by the Arts Council of Ireland, and her poem Seven Sugar Cubes was voted Irish Poem of the Year at the 2017…
Margaret Organ is the Waterford County Arts Officer with Waterford City and County Council. Based in Dungarvan, her areas of responsibility include Festivals and Events, Rural Arts, Arts in Education, Community Arts, Public Art, Arts in Health, and several other artforms. She is responsible for the Old Market House Arts Centre…
Dr Jennifer O’Mahoney is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the South East Technological University (SETU) in Waterford, and a Chartered Member of the Psychological Society of Ireland. She is also Co-Director of the Crime and Justice Research Group at SETU and a Senior Researcher at INSYTE (the Centre for…
Dr Lorraine Bowman-Grieve is a lecturer in Psychology at the South East Technological University (SETU) in Waterford, as part of both the Analysing Social Change Research Group and the Crime and Justice Research Group. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree from University College Cork, her Master’s degree from the University of…
Prof. Mark Cunningham is Head of the Discipline of Physiology and the Ellen Mayston Bates Professor of Neurophysiology of Epilepsy in Trinity’s School of Medicine. His research uses electrophysiology to study the mechanisms by which neuronal microcircuits generate organised electrical activity in the brain. He has a particular interest in understanding how pathological electrical…
Dr Farrell is an Assistant Professor in Mental Health in the Department of Psychology at Maynooth University. She is also a Chartered Psychologist and holds a degree in Public Health and Health Promotion, and a Master’s and PhD in Education from Trinity College Dublin. Being an interdisciplinary researcher, her research…
Prof. Eaton became interested in philosophy at a young age and used his fascination with science fiction and time travel to spur his studies into the subject further. He obtained a BA from Western Illinois University, followed by an MA and a PhD from Southern Illinois University. He then taught…
Regius Prof. Rose Anne Kenny is the founding Principal Investigator of TILDA, The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing. TILDA is Ireland’s largest adult population study which investigates the experience of ageing in Ireland, which compiles biological, social, and economic measures. It is also a designated WHO Collaborating Centre for Longitudinal Studies in Ageing and…
The Robert Boyle Winter School happened at the RDS Dublin, on the 24th of January 2026 from 9:30 am – 4 pm. Taking place at the Minerva Suite at the RDS in Dublin, this year's Winter School addressed the topic of Mind and Matter.