Emeritus Professor Evelyn Mahon

Prof. Evelyn Mahon, Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College, Dublin, retired as an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and Social Policy. A sociologist, she successfully led a number of funded research projects on sensitive health and social research issues., including Post-Separation Parenting (2011), and Assisted Reproductive Technology – IVF Treatment in Ireland (2014). Recognising the importance of empirical research, she founded and directed the master’s programme (M.Sc.) in Applied Social Research at Trinity College, in 1997. This work led her to establish and chair the first Research Ethics Committee in the School. She has served on several committees including the Epidemiology, Heath of the Population and Primary Care Committee of the Health Research Board.