Whitaker School Team

Dr Michael Murelany

Dr. Michael Mulreany

Position
Assistant Director General & Registrar

Dr Michael Murelany is Assistant Director General & Registrar at the IPA. He is also Head of the Whitaker School of Government and Management at the IPA.

Denis O'Brien

Position
Assistant Registrar

Denis is an academic manager and lecturer in the Whitaker School. He oversees student admissions, records, assessment, graduation, quality assurance processes and academic administrative support. He acts as secretary to IPA Examination Boards, Education Committee and Faculty Committee...

Dr. Mark Callanan

Position
Senior Lecturer

Mark is a Senior Lecturer on a number of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at the IPA, including the BA in Public Management, the Diploma in EU Studies, the MA in Public Management, the Masters of Economic Science in Policy Analysis, and the Doctorate in Governance...

Dr. Dearbhla Casey

Position
Senior Lecturer

Dearbhla is a Senior Lecturer on multiple academic programmes in the IPA in the areas of health systems and health policy, healthcare leadership and management, and social policy. She is course director for the MA in Healthcare Management, Diploma in Healthcare Management...

James Connington

Position
Senior Lecturer

James is a Senior Lecturer in the Whitaker School of Government & Management at the IPA. His background is in the field of Occupational Psychology and HRM/Organisational Behaviour. James has been with IPA since 1997 and for a significant period of his....

Mark Finn

Position
Lecturer

Mark lectures in the areas of Economics, Political Science, Research Methods and Statistics on a number of IPA Programmes including the the Master of Arts, Master of Science, BA Programme, Bridging Studies Programme and the US Parliamentary Internship Programme....

Dr. Margaret Malone

Position
Director, US Programme in European Studies, Belgium. Lecturer in European Studies

Margaret is a graduate of the University of Limerick. She holds a First Class Honours degree in European Studies and was also awarded the Distinguished Performance Medal for First Place Overall in the College of...

Sinead McNamara

Position
Lecturer

Sinead has a BComm from University College Cork, an MA in Public Management from the IPA and is a member of ACCA. She lectures in accounting and economics on the IPA’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. After being employed in the...

Nathy Walsh

Position
Senior Lecturer

Nathy cordinates the following subjects in the Accounting & Marketing streams of the Bachelor of Business Studies & the Diploma in Business Studies: Business Administration and Marketing, Quantitative Analysis...

Joss Watson

Position
Lecturer

Joss is a lecturer on the business and management academic programmes in the IPA. He has a wide variety of experience working in both the public and private sectors...

Dr. Stephen Weir

Position
Senior Lecturer

Stephen's research interests focus on Institutional Economics, Policy Change, Regulation, Transport Policy and Health Policy. He co-ordinates the Economics programmes and subjects on both the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes of the Whitaker School of...