Professor Michal Molcho, Head of School of Education,is a Sociologist (Sociology of Health) and the founder of the Children Studies Discipline. Professor Molcho is leading the development and expansion of this inter-disciplinary programme in the College of Arts. Before assuming the role of Head of School of Education, Professor Molcho was the Head of the Discipline of Childrens Studies,Vice Dean for Research (2021-2022) and Vice Dean forInternationalisation (2018-2021). In the academic year 202122, Professor Molcho introduces a new masters degree, MSc in Adolescent Health, and she is the Director of this programme.Previously she was a lecturerHealth Promotion, National University of Ireland, Galway, and member of the Health Promotion Research Centre (HPRC) since 2005. Prior to joining the Department of Health Promotion, she worked in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel (1996-2004) as a researcher and later as an associate researcher and project director in the Research Program on Adolescent Health. Qualifications include B.A. in Criminology, M.A. in Sociology of Health and Ph.D. Sociology (2003). Teaching commitments include modules on the M.A. in Health Promotion, M.Sc. in Occupational Health, the Medical undergraduate programme (Professionalism) and the B.A. Connect with Children, and is course coordinator of the Postgraduate Diploma in Health Promotion delivered in Dublin and the acting director of the MAPostgraduate Programme in Health Promotoin. Other relevant activities include: - Deputy Principal Investigator for Ireland with the WHO collaborative study, HBSC. Member of the International Coordinating Committee, Deputy Chair of the Scientific Development Group, the Methods Development Group and the Protocol Preparation Group for the 200910 amp; 201314 surveys, and chair of the Violence and Injury focus group of the HBSC network;- Consultant for WHO Region for Europe, the Violence and Injury Prevention Programme for the year of 2011;- Member of the steering committee of the Irish Child Safety Alliance. - Member of the adult Irish Survey of Life style and Nutrition (SLÁN) 2007 study consortium.

adolescents health; injuries; violence; health inequalities, childhood cancersurvivorship

My main teaching interests include children and adolescents health and well being, inequalities and marginalisation, and children in social contexts.My teaching involves various methods including service learning, enquiry based learning, flipped classroom approach, as well as small and large group teaching. I am a great believer in reflection on learning and on my teaching as a way to develop lifelong scholars. Many of my classes combine theory and practice as way to achieve deep learning.