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Aileen O'Driscoll

Dr Aileen O’Driscoll is Assistant Professor in Media and Communications at the School of Communications, Dublin City University. Her interests are in the Cultural and Creative Industries. She has most recently published research which focused on the lives, inspirations and motivations of women working in a range of creative professions in Ireland. Aileen has contributed to research for the Global Media Monitoring Project, as well as looking at the representation of women’s voices on Ireland’s airwaves. With an interest in arts and culture, especially focusing on women’s involvement in these fields, Aileen was formerly on the organising committee of the annual Dublin Feminist Film Festival.

Book

	Year	Publication
	2022	O’Driscoll, A. (2022) Creative Women in Ireland: Not Your Muse. [Link]
	2019	O'Driscoll, Aileen (2019) Learning to Sell Sex(ism): Advertising Students and Gender. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI]

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2021	O'Driscoll, Aileen (2021) 'Documenting the changing cultural values in TV advertising in Ireland from 1960s to 1980s'. Creative Industries Journal, . https://doi.org/10.1080/17510694.2021.1878668
	2019	O'Driscoll, Aileen (2019) 'From sex objects to bumbling idiots: tracing advertising students' perceptions of gender and advertising'. Feminist Media Studies, 19 (5). [DOI]
	2016	O'Driscoll, Aileen (2016) 'It's Just One of Those Gender Role Things: the Woman Does the Shopping, and the Man Fixes the Doors: Irish Advertising Students and Postfeminist Gendered Discourses'. Irish Communications Review, 15 (1):112-145. [Link] [DOI]

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2020	Healion, K., O’Driscoll, A., O’Meara, J. and Stone, K. (2020) 'Activism through Celebration: The role of the Dublin Feminist Film Festival in supporting women in Irish film, 2014–17' In: Women in Irish Film: Stories and Storytellers. Cork : Cork University Press.

Other Journal

	Year	Publication
	2019	Aileen O'Driscoll (2019) 'Searching for Understanding in Alan Gilsenan’s The Meeting' (14) . [Link]
	2018	Aileen O'Driscoll (2018) 'On the Threshold: Song of Granite (Pat Collins, 2017)' (13) :258-262. [Link]

Conference Contribution

	Year	Publication
	2021	Aileen O'Driscoll (2021) 4th International Symposium on Philosophy, Education, Art and History of Science, April 14-18, 2021 Paper title: The debate on prostitution in Ireland: Interrogating the growing ‘sex work is work’ narrative among academics, the media and university students Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Turkey (online), 14/04/2021-18/04/2021.
	2021	Aileen O'Driscoll (2021) MEDCOM, 6th World Conference on Media and Mass Communication Paper title: Advertising as ‘Distorted Mirror’: Cultural Values in TV advertising in Ireland from the 1960’s to 1980’s Cagliari, Italy (online), 17/06/2021-19/06/2021.
	2020	Aileen O'Driscoll (2020) 6th International Conference on Media and Popular Culture, 11 January 2020 Paper presented: Taking Matters into our Own Hands: Women in the Creative and Cultural Industries Leeds, UK, .
	2018	Aileen O'Driscoll (2018) Irish Audience Studies Network Symposium Paper title: Mapping audience engagement with film festivals: 3 case-studies Maynooth University, .
	2018	Aileen O'Driscoll (2018) Irish Screen Studies Seminar Roundtable discussion about film festivals. Attended as organiser of Dublin Feminist Film Festival Queens University Belfast, .
	2017	Aileen O'Driscoll (2017) Men, Masculinities, Gender Presented paper 'What about the men?’ Attitudes to gender stereotyping among advertising students' Carlow IT, .
	2016	Aileen O'Driscoll (2016) DCU Advertising Research Symposium Presentation of doctoral study DCU, .
	2016	Aileen O'Driscoll (2016) IAMCR Presentation of doctoral study Leicester, .
	2014	Aileen O'Driscoll (2014) ‘Gender & Metamorphosis’, Sibéal Conference Presentation of doctoral study TCD, Dublin, .
	2014	Aileen O'Driscoll (2014) ‘Some Indexical You: Gender in the Twenty-First Century’ Presentation of doctoral study University of Ulster, Belfast, .
	2014	Aileen O'Driscoll (2014) International Conference: Gender in focus: (new) trends in media Presentation of doctoral study University of Minho, Praga, Portugal, .

Published Report

	Year	Publication
	2015	Dr Kathy Walsh, Dr Jane Suiter, and Orla O’Connor (2015) Hearing Women’s Voices? Exploring women’s underrepresentation in current affairs radio programming at peak listening times in Ireland. NWCI and DCU, .
	2013	Gender Equality Division, Department of Justice, Ireland (2013) Women's Economic Engagement and the Europe 2020 Agenda: Report of an EU-Presidency Conference. European Commission, . [Link]
	2013	European Institute for Gender Equality (2013) Review of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in the EU Member States: Women and the Media — Advancing gender equality in decision-making in media organisations. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, . [Link]

Education

	Start date	Institution	Qualification	Subject
		DCU	PhD

Media

	Title	Year	Type	Authors
	Kick-Starting the Stalled Revolution: The ASA’s Challenge to Gender Stereotypes	2017	Newspaper column (online)	Aileen O'Driscoll
	Feminist Film Festival Dublin 2016	2016	Newspaper column (online)	Aileen O'Driscoll

Research Interests

Cultural and Creative Industries; feminist communication and media; advertising education

Current Postgraduate Students

	Student Name	Degree	Supervision
	Kiely ,Yvonne	PhD	Supervisor

Modules Coordinated

Term	Title	Subject
2022	Introduction to Social Studies	CM107
2022	Analysing Visual Media Texts	CM135
2022	Race and the Media	CM391
2020	Research Methods	CM570