Appointment of Deputy Vice-President for Research and Innovation at DCU

Professor Regina Connolly has been appointed Deputy Vice-President for Research & Innovation at DCU (DVPRI). Together with the Vice-President for Research and Innovation Prof. Alan Harvey, Prof. Connolly will be responsible for the development and implementation of the University’s research strategy, and will provide leadership in the implementation of that strategy in line with the University’s strategic plan.

Prof. Connolly holds a PhD in Information Systems which was conferred by Trinity College, Dublin.  She has published extensively and her research work has received multiple international awards and distinctions including the Villanova University Research Excellence Award of Merit and Government Information Quarterly's Inaugural Best Research Paper Award, as well as several conference Best Paper Awards.  She has also been an invited speaker at international conferences and at the European Parliament.

She has significant expertise in healthcare technology impact assessment as well as eHealth business model development and is a lead participant in several international Ambient Healthcare Technology research projects that received 8.43 million euros in funding from the European Commission in 2014.  She is also a lead investigator in a pre-commercial health technology procurement proposal that was awarded 5.1 million euros in European funding in 2015.

She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Internet Commerce. She is Associate Editor of the European Journal of Information Systems, Senior Editor of Information Systems Management and is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Advanced Decision Sciences. She also acts as an expert evaluator for the European Commission.  In 2008, she was appointed by the Minister for Health to the Medical Council of Ireland and currently serves as a Non-Executive Director to the Board of Governors of the National Orthopaedic Hospital of Ireland, Clontarf.