Professor Sheila Greene, AIB Professor of Childhood Research at Trinity College Dublin, is Co-Director of Growing Up in Ireland. In this role she will have particular responsibility for the child development aspects of the Study and is the Theme Leader for the Education and Child Development Panel.

Sheila Greene is co-founder of the Children's Research Centre (with Professor Robbie Gilligan) and became the Centre's Director on 1st October 2004. Sheila graduated from Trinity and trained as a clinical psychologist at The Institute of Psychiatry in London. She was the Head Psychologist on the Maternal and Infant Health Study at the Children's Hospital in Boston and a staff member at Harvard Medical School before returning to the Psychology Department in Trinity as a lecturer. She has been involved in the establishment and direction of postgraduate courses in clinical and counselling psychology and women's studies. She was elected to serve as Dean of Arts (Humanities) on two occasions and from August 2001 to July 2004 held the office of Senior Lecturer (chief academic officer) of the College. In March 2005 she was appointed to the AIB Chair in Childhood Research.

Her publications include ‘The psychological development of girls and women’ (Routledge, 2003) and (with Dr Diane Hogan) ‘Researching children’s experience: Approaches and methods (Sage, 2005).


Phone: 01 896 3851
Email: sgreene@tcd.ie