Dr Rhona McCormack

Dr Rhona McCormack is Director of Student Affairs at the University of Limerick since 2021. She has leadership responsibility for a broad portfolio of student support services, across the areas of Access and Widening Participation, Student Health and Wellbeing and Student Support and Development. Rhona has held a variety of practitioner and management posts in Irish higher education over 30 years, including in Careers and Educational Guidance, Project Management, and Access and Widening Participation, and has worked in UL since 2006. Between 2000 and 2002, Rhona also worked in a vocational education training centre in Belize, Central America, on an Irish government overseas volunteer programme.  

Rhona holds a Bachelor of Business Studies from the University of Limerick, a Masters in Education from the Open University, and a Professional Doctorate in Higher and Adult Education from Maynooth University. Through her work in higher education and her research, she is an advocate for the importance of relationality and recognition in shaping positive experiences, a sense of belonging, and personal wellbeing, for students and staff in higher education, and particularly in a widening participation context.