Professor Pat Dolan
Pat is the joint founder and Director of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and an Academic Director of the MA in Family Support Studies at NUI Galway. He holds the prestigious UNESCO Chair in Children, Youth and Civic Engagement, the first to be awarded in the Republic of Ireland. He has worked with and for families as a practitioner, service manager and academic for over 20 years, and completed an extensive body of research on family issues and published in a wide range of academic publications.
Pat is the joint founder and Director of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and an Academic Director of the MA in Family Support Studies at NUI Galway. He holds the prestigious UNESCO Chair in Children, Youth and Civic Engagement, the first to be awarded in the Republic of Ireland. He has worked with and for families as a practitioner, service manager and academic for over 20 years, and completed an extensive body of research on family issues and published in a wide range of academic publications.