Welcome! I’m Maedbh King, PhD.

After a decade on both the East and West coasts of the U.S., I returned to Ireland with my family to apply my research training to a different question: why our institutions work the way they do, and how to challenge and improve them so they serve everyone.

My work spans three areas: research culture, science policy and education advocacy. In my research culture role at Trinity College Dublin, I develop research and policy that promote responsible research practices, challenging the metrics and incentives that shape academic careers.

I recently finished my term as joint Editor-in-Chief of the MIT Science Policy Review, where I worked to make sure evidence-based insight reaches the people shaping global governance. My final volume as editor was Volume VII: The Geopolitics of Science Policy.

Closer to home, I advocate for change in the Irish primary school system. As a researcher and parent representative with the human rights group Education Equality, I campaign for a truly pluralist system, where taxpayer-funded public primary schools welcome and respect all families equally, whatever their religious background. I've written about this here and here. 

I also write regular letters to the editor, mostly in The Irish Times, on issues I care about. You can read them here.

Whether in a research lab or a primary school classroom, the question I come back to is who is this built for, and how do we make it work for everyone?