Dr Tina Kinsella

Dr Tina Kinsella is a senior academic leader, leading researcher, and educator. As Head of Research, she is a member of IADT’s Senior Management team. In this role, she is responsible for advancing IADT’s readiness for university designation and for providing strategic leadership for all research functions at IADT, including research leadership and capacity building, research policy governance, postgraduate research (Masters by Research and PhD co-supervision), and researcher development. Through the TU RISE funded Elevate programme, she is aligning research leadership, infrastructure, and strategic partnerships across the creative industries
Dr Kinsella previously served as Head of Design and Visual Arts at IADT. She represents IADT at national and international networks and committees and serves on the Royal Irish Academy multidisciplinary committee for Languages, Literature, Culture and Communications, and is a member of the Arts Council of Ireland Peer Panel.
She is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), and a Fellow of the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCAM), Technological University Dublin (TUD).