Humanitarian Action Study Group

Miriam is a graduate of the University of Limerick, where she earned a First Class Honours degree in Politics and Public Administration. She subsequently pursued PhD research and later completed a Professional Diploma in Project Management at the University of Limerick, further strengthening her organisational, coordination, and delivery capabilities.

Miriam has tutored across a wide range of undergraduate Public Administration modules at UL. Her academic interests centre on the relationships between governance concepts, practices, and processes and social inclusion/exclusion, the role of public administration in advancing social justice and equity, and community development and participation.

She has worked as an Assistant Project Coordinator on an Irish Aid–funded research project under the Programme for Strategic Cooperation, and has much experience in sales and recruitment. Miriam was also actively engaged in community development, having established a Residents’ Association and played a key role in coordinating and resolving front boundary issues affecting 98 properties. This involved extensive liaison with public representatives, local government, state agencies, management company members and agent, as well as the preparation of all necessary legal documentation.