Prof Norelee Kennedy talks Research and Physiotherapy

In this episode, Finbarr and Erin chat with Prof Norelee Kennedy, Vice President for Research at the University of Limerick. Professor Norelee Kennedy was appointed Vice President for Research at the University of Limerick in July 2019 and took up the post in January 2020.

Some of Norelee's responsibilities in her role as Vice President for Research at the University of Limerick include:

• Research affairs of the University, including research support services, related enterprise and commercialisation of UL’s research.
• Leadership in the formulation, development and delivery of the University’s research policy, strategy and support services.
• Key role in the overall leadership and strategic management of the University.
• Work with the research community in UL, nationally and internationally, to grow research capacity, quality, output and revenue.
• Promote and encourage excellence in the research environment and ensure the provision of effective, responsive structures, services and information systems to support the research function.
• Provide policy advice, relevant reports and evaluations of research capacity, quality and output through the research office.
• Research governance, conduct, integrity and ethics.
• Ensure excellent management of research contracts, finances and research expenditure including research overheads.

Norelee Kennedy is an Associate Professor of Physiotherapy at the School of Allied Health and is an active member of the Health Research Institute and its Health Implementation Science and Technology cluster. She graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a BSc in Physiotherapy (1999) and a PhD (2004) in the field of physiotherapy, health economics and rheumatology. She also has a Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics (TCD 2000) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (NUI Galway 2004).

Norelee was appointed Lecturer in Physiotherapy at UL in 2004, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2015 and Associate Professor in 2018. She was the Head of School of Allied Health, UL from 2014-2019. During that time, she oversaw the first external quality review of the school, six regulatory body programme approvals and monitoring of professional programmes as well as the establishment of two new professional graduate entry Masters programmes in Physiotherapy and Human Nutrition & Dietetics. She managed over 50 staff in the school, delivering programmes to c400 students across the four disciplines of Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech & Language Therapy and Dietetics. She also co-led the successful first School of Allied Health Athena SWAN application for a Bronze award in 2018.

https://www.ul.ie/presidents-office/professor-norelee-kennedy

This episode is produced by the KBS Digital Hub-Grzegorz Rogala