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Dermot Roantree

Current Editor of Studies

Dermot Roantree is the tenth editor of ‘Studies’ since its foundation in 1912, and its first lay editor. He has a PhD in Modern History from University College, Dublin. His doctoral thesis concerned 19th century church-state relations, John Henry Newman, and liberal Catholicism in Ireland, Britain, and Europe. Dermot was a secondary school teacher before working first on eLearning projects and then in communications. He continues to work as a content editor for Irish Jesuit Communications.

Stephen Collins

Political correspondent of the Irish Times

Stephen Collins is the political editor of the Irish Times. He has been a political journalist for over 25 years and was formerly the political editor of the Sunday Tribune and the Sunday Press, having started work as a journalist with the Irish Press Group. He has written a number of books on Irish politics, the most recent being ‘Ireland’s Call: Navigating Brexit’ (2022). His other books include ‘People Politics and Power: From O’Connell to Ahern’ (2007) and ‘Breaking the Mould: How the PDs changed Irish Politics’ (2005). He has a BA in History and Politics and an MA in Politics from University College Dublin.

Kevin Hargaden

Director and Social Theologian at Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice

Dr Kevin Hargaden is Director of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, Gardiner Street, Dublin 1, as well as the Centre’s social theologian. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. His primary research interest concerns how Christian ethics intersects with economic questions, which was the subject of his 2018 publication ‘Theological Ethics in a Neoliberal Age: Confronting the Christian Problem with Wealth’.

Tony White

Former director in Ireland of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants

Dr Tony White worked for twenty years as Irish Director of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. He spent a similar period in higher education with the Higher Education Authority, the National Council for Educational Awards and as Registrar of Milltown Institute. He is currently a member of the governing body of the National College of Ireland and of the Medical and Health Sciences Board of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He has published a book and a number of articles on aspects of Irish higher education.

Gerry O’Hanlon SJ

Chairman of the Studies Board

Gerry O’Hanlon is an Irish Jesuit priest, formerly Dean of Theology at the Milltown Institute, Provincial of the Irish Province, and staff member of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice. He has published extensively on public theology, and reform within the Catholic Church. He is an Adjunct Professor of Theology at the Loyola Institute in Trinity College Dublin.

Suzanne Mulligan

Professor of the Practice, Institute for Social Concerns, University of Notre Dame

Suzanne Mulligan is a Professor at the Institute for Social Concerns in the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, US. Before her move to Notre Dame, she had taught moral theology both at the Milltown Institute, Dublin, and at the Pontifical University, Maynooth. Catholic Social Teaching is her primary research area, especially such subjects as the common good, homelessness, poverty, and gender violence. Her most recent publication is on CST and homelessness.

Peadar Kirby

Professor Emeritus of International Politics and Public Policy at the University of Limerick

Dr Peadar Kirby is Professor Emeritus of International Politics and Public Policy at the University of Limerick. He has written books on diverse themes – liberation theology, globalisation, the Irish economy, social justice, and most recently on the need to transform market society in the era of climate change, drawing on the insight of the economist Karl Polanyi. He is fluent in Irish.

Tom Layden SJ

Chair of the Loyola Institute Board of Trustees

Tom Layden SJ