Academic Katriona O'Sullivan to head centre aimed at bringing disadvantaged students into higher education

Professor Katriona O'Sullivan: 'The launch of this centre is our commitment to proving, through evidence and action, that equity strengthens the whole system.' Picture: Moya Nolan

Award-winning academic and author of the bestselling memoir  Poor, Professor Katriona O’Sullivan, is to lead a new national centre focused on supporting students from underrepresented communities to access higher education.

Maynooth University has officially opened the National Centre for Inclusive Higher Education, Ireland’s first national centre dedicated to equity, inclusion, and access in higher education.