About
Eithne now has 27 years’ experience of working directly with young people in health and education sectors. She is an academic member of staff in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at University College Cork in the south-west of Ireland. Eithne received prestigious UCC President’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching in 2009 and again in 2019, as well as a peer nominated university award for Outstanding Colleague (2020). She had held numerous leadership roles in her academic unit. From 2020-2022, Eithne was invited to be the sole academic advisor to the university’s pioneering Graduate Attributes Programme.
Eithne developed a novel digital badge microcredential based on her doctoral research which she completed at University College Cork in 2014. The Everyday Matters – Healthy Habits for University Life® programme is available to all undergraduate and postgraduate students at UCC. This programme yields statistically significant improvements across a range of wellbeing measures for participants.
Eithne’s reputation as an evidence-based thought leader has led to invited keynotes for 2nd/3rd level education and health professionals across Ireland, relating to her work on college student wellbeing, adolescent development, occupational therapy in child and adolescent mental health and workplace wellbeing. Eithne has a university, national and international profile in innovating and promoting curricular and whole-university approaches to wellbeing. She provides novel resources to support teaching, learning, student success and mental wellbeing, the latter a particular an area of urgent international need.
