Dr Caroline O'Sullivan

Dr Caroline Ann O’Sullivan is a Senior Lecturer and the Academic Lead fof the Culture and Society Research Hub.

Prior to taking up her current role she was Head of School of Media in TU Dublin where she has worked since 2017. She was previously co-director of the Centre for Creative Arts Research and Senior Lecturer in Creative Media in Dundalk Institute of Technology where she lectured from 2000-2017 in Media and Film Studies, Digital Media Culture, Popular Music, Innovation and Contemporary issues in Creative Media Industries, Research Methodologies and Practice Based Research. 

Caroline holds a PhD in Sociology from Trinity College Dublin, an MSc in Multimedia from DCU and a BA in Sociology and Information Science from UCD.

Caroline is the chair of the executive committee of UK and Ireland branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). She is a current member of the board of the Arts Council appointed in 2024.

She has acted as a research advisor (2017-2022) for the University of the Underground a free, pluralistic and transnational university which delivers research and postgraduate programmes across Europe and was external examiner for their MA programme in Sandberg Instituut (Netherlands) from 2017-2019. 

She was a member of the management committee of Honeycomb – Creative Works, a €5,000,000 INTEREG IV project funded by SUEPB promoting the Creative Industries across the border counties of the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and West of Scotland. 

Caroline currently supervises PhD students in the School of Media and delivers a module, Advanced Qualitative Research Methods for Media Studies, to PhD students. 

She also teaches Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and Popular Music: Culture, Texts and Contexts on the first year of the BA programmes in Journalism, and Film and Broadcasting.

Cultural Sociology, Media, Gender, Popular Culture and Popular Music