Bio
Sinead has spent nearly 2 decades working as a lecturer in academic institutions, mostly Waterford Institute of Technology, teaching a wide variety of legal courses including modules involving employment law, family law, child law and mediation.
Sinead has extensive course leadership experience involving dispute resolution (and dispute avoidance!). Sinead completed her Masters at the University of Cambridge, examining commercial insurance law, corporate finance law and insolvency law. Her Ph.D was undertaken at Trinity College Dublin. Her thesis outlines the origins and development of family mediation internationally and then comparatively analyses the adoption and process of family mediation in Ireland and Northern Ireland. It is considered to be an authoritative work on the subject.
Sinead completed Friary Law’s Civil & Commercial Mediation course in 2012. She is the Chairperson of the Board of Management of a school for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder for the past five years. Sinead is the lead Academic Consultant to the Family Mediation Project, a public private partnership between WIT and ARC Mediation.
Sinead has published articles on Child Law, Constitutional Law, Family Mediation, Domestic Violence Law and Child Maintenance in the Irish Journal of Family Law and the Family Law Journal. Sinead was awarded the degree of Barrister-at-Law from the Kings Inns in 2000.
