Co-Principal Investigator, LeroCurrent Research Projects:Co-Principal Investigator within Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre, funded by Science Foundation Ireland (www.sfi.ie) leading projects on Global Software Engineering, Connected Health and Women in STEM;Supervision of full-time and part-time PhD students who are/have been funded by Science Foundation Ireland (www.sfi.ie), Irish Research Council (http://www.research.ie/), European Union Projects, LGSSE - Lero Graduate School in Software Engineering (http://www.lero.ie/content/lgsselerograduateschoolsoftwareengineering), University of Eastern Finland, Technical University Munich, and Pontifical University Catholic of Rio Grande do Sul, Porte Algre, Brazil.Recent collaborators include Johnson and; Johnson, IBM, Ocuco, University of Limerick Hospital Group and Health Service Executive Chief Clinical Information Officers (CCIO). Previous Research Projects:Principal Investigator, UL, FESTA Female Empowerment for Science and Technology Academics (http://www.festa-europa.eu/public/formalities), funded by the European Union.Principal Investigator within ARCH Technology Centre - Applied Research for Connected Health (www.arch.ie), funded by Enterprise Ireland (http://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/), led by UCD. Science Foundation Ireland Industry Fellow, researching with ADA-Security, Rockchapel, Co Cork. Principal Investigator Lero@UL, TRANSFoRm Translational Research and Patient Safety in Europe (http://www.transformproject.eu/), funded by the European Union;Project Principal Investigator, PAISEAN Plan-driven, Agile, Inner-Source Environment Analysis Network (http://www.lero.ie/project/paisean0), funded by Science Foundation Ireland (www.sfi.ie); Project Team Member, Lero@UL, Developing a Global Software Development Framework for the Medical Device Industry (https://www.dkit.ie/rsrg/research/current-projects), completed August 2014. Principal Investigator, Lero@UL, S-Cube Software Services and Systems Network (http://www.s-cube-network.eu/), completed March 2012.Principal Investigator for Gender Audit @ UL reports available at http://gender.lero.ie/. Adjunct Professor, University of Eastern Finland.External Examiner for PhD theses in Finland, The Netherlands, Sweden, India, Canada.

Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of LimerickSupervision of M.Sc. and Final Year Projects. Workshops on Connected Health with School of Allied Health, UL.Teaching topics: Software Processes, Software Process Improvement, Software Quality, Development of Information Systems.Lecture to undergraduate, post-graduate (M.Sc. in Software Engineering), Higher Diploma and Graduate Diploma Students.

Professor of Software Quality within the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Limerick.  Co-Principal Investigator, Lero the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (www.lero.ie), funded by Science Foundation Ireland (www.sfi.ie) Principal Investigator, Ageing Research Centre, University of LimerickMember, Health Research Institute (https://www.ul.ie/research/hri), University of Limerick Science Foundation Ireland Industry Research Fellow, with HomeSafe Care (http://homesafe.ie/) 2014-2017 PhD (1999) in Software Engineering. Topics of Interest:Software Processes, Software Process Improvement, Software Quality in specific environments:            Global Software Engineering;            Connected Health;            Medical Device Industry;            Services Development;            Small to Medium Sized Enterprises.Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).Other Interests: Athena SWAN: Member of National, University of Limerick and Faculty of Science and; Engineering Steering committees.  Member of CSIS/Lero committee. Irish Water Safety (www.iws.ie)   Crinniú, University of Limerick s staff Traditional Music Group (http://www.ul.ie/cruinniu/) ;Sports particularly Ladies Gaelic Football, Camogie, Gaelic Football and Hurling;Community events (www.murroe.net);Singing, Skiing