Head of School

Email: caroline.osullivan@tudublin.ie

 

Profile

Dr Caroline Ann O’Sullivan is Head of School of Media in TU Dublin where she has worked since 2017. 

Prior to taking up her current role she was Assistant Head of School and Head of Creative Media. She was previously co-director of the Centre for Creative Arts Research and Senior Lecturer in Creative Media in Dundalk Institute of Technology where she lectured from 2000-2017 in Media and Film Studies, Digital Media Culture, Popular Music, Innovation and Contemporary issues in Creative Media Industries, Research Methodologies and Practice Based Research. 

Caroline holds a PhD in Sociology from Trinity College Dublin, an MSc in Multimedia from DCU and a BA in Sociology and Information Science from UCD.

She currently acts as a research advisor for the University of the Underground a free, pluralistic and transnational university which delivers research and postgraduate programmes across Europe and was external examiner for their MA programme in Sandberg Instituut (Netherlands) from 2017-2019. 

She was a member of the management committee of Honeycomb – Creative Works, a €5,000,000 INTEREG IV project funded by SUEPB promoting the Creative Industries across the border counties of the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and West of Scotland. 

Caroline was invited to present her research at the Northern Irish Assembly in Stormont in 2018. She has also been invited speaker at OFFSET Design conference (2019), Imagine Festival (2019) Belfast Media Festival (2018), and the Belfast Film Festival (2017).  She was the academic consultant for, and her research featured heavily in the award-winning My Tribe/ Mo Threibh Season 1 and 2, the documentary series on Musical Subcultures produced for and broadcast on RTÉ.  Admitted onto the Higher Education and Training Awards Council (HETAC now QQI) expert register in 2006, she has has consulted for HETAC, Screenskills Ireland, the Office of Public Works and The National Centre for Technology in Education.

Caroline was the Irish Representative on the executive committee for the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) UK and Ireland Branch (2016-2020), and is a member of the Women’s Film and Television History Network, the Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI), the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), European Popular Culture Association (EPCA) and the Irish Social Science Platform (ISSP) 

She has published and presented worldwide on gender; media literacy, popular music, reality television, the culture of social media, identity and expression online, Internet youth culture and creativity, and entrepreneurship in education.

 

Lecturing Profile

Caroline currently supervises PhD students in the School of Media and delivers a module, Advanced Qualitative Research Methods for Media Studies, to PhD students. 

She also teaches Equality, Diversity and Inclusion on the Postgraduate Diploma for Creative Leadership, and Popular Music: Culture, Texts and Contexts on the first year of the BA programmes in Journalism, and Film and Broadcasting.