Mary Kelly

Mary Kelly was awarded a research fellowship from the ESRI (1971-1974) to study at Cambridge University. On returning to Ireland she joined the School of Sociology, University College Dublin (UCD). In the late 1980s, she was a founding member of the Equality Studies Centre in UCD. In the early 1990s she established the first Masters Programme in Sociology by course work and minor dissertation in Ireland. Her research interests included sociology of education; sociology of the environment and media studies. She died in April 2010. See http://www.ucd.ie/sociology/staff/profiles/drmarykelly/home/