Cormac Sheehan cormac.sheehan@nuigalway.ie

Dr. Cormac Sheehan, a graduate of the Department of Anthropology at NUI Maynooth, is an associated researcher with the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, NUI Galway. Sheehan’s doctoral work focused on the cultural issues to suicide and self-harm in west Dublin. For this work, Sheehan received IRCHSS and NIRSA scholarships. Sheehan completed this work in 2003 and has since written this up for publication and is currently under review.

From 2001 onwards, Sheehan has lectured in a number of departments at NUIM, DBS, and the Milltown Institute, broadly on medical and psychological anthropology, addiction studies, social care, social policy, history of anthropology, drama therapy, and suicide and self-harm. Sheehan has published widely in anthropology journals, and has a paper in press with Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry.