Dr Mary Tumelty is a lecturer at the School of Law, UCC. She holds an LLB and a PhD (UL), and her research interests include medical law, patient safety, and alternative dispute resolution.
Mary has a strong record in interdisciplinary and empirical research. She has presented and published her research nationally and internationally. Her work has also been funded by the Irish Research Council and the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
In 2019, Mary was appointed to the Health and Social Care Professionals Council (CORU) by the Minister for Health. She is an external examiner for the Health Law and Ethics LLM at Nottingham Trent University, and a member of the Management Committee for EU COST Action “The European Researchers’ Network Working on Second Victims”.