Mary Galvin is an Irish academic and mental health advocate.
Galvin received her doctorate at University College Cork, before going on to work at Trinity College and University College Dublin.[1] She is perhaps best known for her interdisciplinary work on the relationship between technology and mental health, focusing on conditions like dementia.[2]
Galvin has published in journals like Leonardo (The MIT Press)[3] and Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (Oxford University Press).[4]
An open source application that Galvin designed to help elicit and share personal narratives, Digital Story Cubes, received some 10,000 installations on Android.[5] [6] The app was selected as a finalist for the Europeana Design Challenge in 2015.[7]
In 2013, Galvin was a finalist in the Higher Education Authority's Making an Impact Competition, in which she discussed the role that consumer technologies can play in supporting individuals suffering from dementia.[8]
She is a member of the board at the Coolmine Therapeutic Community, a registered Irish charity providing treatment for drug and alcohol addictions.[9]
In a 2017 interview, she outlined her belief that research can be used to bring about positive change in public health: "No experience is the same and what is great is that I get the chance to collect these experiences in the hope of bringing about change in healthcare policies and or how healthcare practitioners can improve their interactions with their patients."[10]
Galvin is originally from Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford.[11]