Dr. Lisa O’Rourke Scott is a chartered psychologist who has been an academic and researcher in Limerick Institute of Technology since (2006). She is Course Director of Social Care Work and Principal Investigator on the Genders and Sexualities Research. She has been the Chair of the Standing Committee for Research Ethics at LIT, and a member of Academic Council. She established and is currently the Principal Investigator on the Genders and Sexualities Research Group (GSRG). She is a Contributing Lecturer to the ADEPT Research Group. Recent publications include; ‘Transformation in the neoliberal academy in Ireland: Athena SWAN, feminist activism and social class’, Gender Work and Organisations (forthcoming),’ Linguistic Imperialism, Toponymy, Semiotics & Taxonomies: the Anglicisation of Irish place names in hegemonic library cataloguing systems’, Journal of Radical Librarianship (2019); ‘Voice of the Child, Report on women exiting domestic violence experiences of custody and access in the court system’, ASCEND Domestic Abuse Prevention Service (2018);  ‘Room 101: Are Gender Specific Cigarette Packets the Way Forward?’ Irish Journal of Medical Science (2018).Commissioned piece for RTE Brainstorm (October 2018) – Why do we Lie, Available at https://www.rte.ie/eile/brainstorm/2018/1024/1006287- why-do-we-lie/

Areas of Research Focus: Gender and sexual identities, gender-based violence and gender in the context of work.