Our Team

A researcher, librarian, consultant, and project manager with over 15 years of experience across cultural heritage and digital scholarship, knowledge management, AI evaluation, and open research infrastructures. Christopher’s work spans strategic leadership in national repository alignment, participatory AI auditing, and national open access publishing development. As Research Fellow and Open Health Research Engagement Officer for the Open Health Research Ireland Network (OHRIN) project Christopher is the project manage working to develop the OHRIN membership network and Diamond OA journal.

A Qualitative Research and Evaluation Lead my role is focused on establishing a research function in NQPSD. I was the HSE lead for Research Collaboration for Quality and Patient Safety (RCQPS) from 2016 until 2022. Currently establishing a Quality and Patient Safety research network (co-funded by HRB) aiming to build a community of QPS researchers, knowledge users, patients, public and other stakeholders to change the landscape of Irish QPS research. I led on the co-design of evaluation framework and toolkit aimed at those completing evaluations of their QPS initiatives. I contributed to the establishment of multiple research partnerships with academic centers including UCD, Trinity, RCSI and UCC. This included supervising a doctoral candidate and mentoring post-doctoral researchers which are sponsored by NQPSD. I am an active researcher both leading and collaborating on research and contributing to successful research funding applications.

A librarian with experience in health, academic, and special libraries. She has advocated for Open Access, implementing organisational Open Access policies and delivered training on open access publishing and practice. She was manager of the Lenus Irish Health repository, chair of the HSE Open Access Steering group and Lenus Working Group lead from 2017 to 2019. Chair of the Research@THEA repository group from 2021 to 2022. She lectured on the Library and Information Studies Masters programmes in University College Dublin and Dublin Business School. Laura is a current Phd candidate with TU Dublin’s School of Media exploring diverging professional values and power structures in Librarianship as evidenced in librarian led podcast content.

Christoph Schmidt-Supprian is Head of Content Management & Open Scholarship at the Library of Trinity College Dublin. He is passionate about the role of research libraries in preserving all publications, print and digital, making them available to present as well as future readers, whilst pushing for open and sustainable formats, practices and standards. Christoph holds a PhD in modern history from Trinity College Dublin (2006), has lectured on information organisation in University College Dublin and in the Dublin Business School, and sits on the Council of the Library Association of Ireland.

Padraig is a librarian with the HSE Library and is the Manager of Lenus, the Irish Health Research Repository. He has presented and taught on Open Access and Open Research in the HSE and in lead of the organising team for the HSE Open Access awards. He was an author and researcher on the HSE research and development office report ‘Research Activity in the HSE and its Funded Organisations’

My role as Information Officer with the ICGP since 2005 involves providing information and teaching support to both our members and ICGP staff. I completed a Masters in Education and Training (e-Learning) (MEME) in 2021 from DCU. I also have a Masters in Librarianship and Information Studies (MLIS) from UCD and a Bachelor in Business Studies (BBS) from Trinity College. I am a member of the LENUS (Health Institutional Repository) Working Group since 2012. I participated in ICGP’s first systematic review and its’ subsequent update on “the effectiveness of educational interventions for primary care health professionals designed to improve self-management in patients with chronic conditions”. I collaborated on the publication ’20 Years of the Methadone Treatment Protocol in Ireland’ in 2018. I have presented at conferences as well as written a number of articles for Forum: the Journal of the Irish College of General Practitioners.

Librarian from 1999 to December 2022 in the Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP) tasked with providing Library and Information services to ICGP Members, Staff, Project Directors/Clinical Leads and external stakeholders as required. Appointed Head of Research, Policy & Information since December 2022 to present. My new role involves supporting the goals of the ICGP Strategic Plan as well as management of staff and workload in the Research, Library and Research Hub. In order to achieve these goals we provide the research and analyse relevant data that allows ICGP to advocate on behalf of it’s Members to ultimately deliver high-quality patient care in Irish General Practice. I have a B.A. from UCD as well as a Masters in Librarianship and Information Studies (M.L.I.S.) from UCD. I have been involved in this area for over 25 years and have authored and supported ICGP articles, systematic reviews and reports throughout this time.

A working General Practitioner as well as a researcher at the School of Medicine, University of Limerick. His research interests include Healthcare Informatics, Data analytics, Primary Care/General Practice, Healthcare economics. Mike O’Callaghan is a dual-qualified engineer and GP. He studied medicine at the University of Limerick. He trained on the TCD/HSE GP training scheme, graduating in 2016. Mike currently works six sessions per week in general practice in Bruff General Practice in County Limerick, with the remaining four sessions assigned as Clinical Lead to the ICGP Research Hub. He holds a Masters in Healthcare Informatics and is a PhD candidate at University of Limerick, exploring the harnessing of data for healthcare purposes as exemplified in his work on COVID-Watch during the pandemic and the reports he has produced/co-authored for ICGP in relation to Irish General Practice.

Dr Johanna Archbold, MLIS, PhD, Director of the IOAP; leads TUS Midlands Library at the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS). She is a librarian and 18th century book historian with over 15 years-experience in research, academic libraries, research funding and creative enterprise. Johanna has published on her historical and library research interests, received research funding and spoken nationally and internationally on a wide variety of topics. She is an active member of the Library Association of Ireland (LAI) on the LAI Library Ireland Week Taskforce and the LAI’s IFLA Library Map of the World project, a tool supporting global library advocacy highlighting the impact & potential of libraries in delivering on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Professor Drennan is currently Professor of Nursing at University College Dublin, prior to this he was Chair of Nursing and Health Services Research at University College Cork and chair of Healthcare Research at the University of Southampton. He is registered in the general, psychiatric, learning disability and tutors’ divisions of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland Register. His main area of clinical practice was emergency nursing. He was a key member of the Taskforce for Staffing and Skill Mix in Nursing and was involved in the development of the report and recommendations on Safe Nurse Staffing and Skill Mix for General and Specialist Medical and Surgical Care Settings in Acute Adult Hospitals in Ireland (Department of Health, 2016). He has been the external judge for the HSE’s Open Access awards since 2018 and is an advocate for open health research practice.

Andrew Simpson oversees RCSI Library’s Education, Research & Clinical Support services including all areas of Open Research. This has included the migration of the RCSI Repository to new software to enable a single repository for all item types and integration with a new CRIS; the creation of a post providing FAIR Data support, and monitoring and reporting of OA publications and performance. Andrew previously worked in the UK at University of Portsmouth where he established a service within the Library to support Open Research, and oversaw the migration and integration of the repository with a new CRIS. He has been an active contributor to NORF groups over the last few years, most recently contributing to the Policy Briefs on National Open Access Monitoring and Coordinated Support for Open Access Repositories.