Iris Elliott PhD FRSA

About

Experience

• Head of Policy and Research at Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission
  Mar 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 5 mos

• University of Cambridge ()
  • Member of the Policy Fellows Network at the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy
    Feb 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

    Strategic advisor on the development of evidence based, equality and human rights aligned public policy.

  • Visiting Scholar
    Jan 2021 - Mar 2021 · 3 mos

    Contributed human rights and equality expertise to the £6million Economic Social Research Council funded study 'Research for Health in Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa'. I provided strategic assistance on: a Women's Leadership Initiative, Communications (evidence to impact) and Sensitive Research. Based at the University of Cambridge's Department of Sociology, I worked with partners in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the USA during the Visiting Scholarship. I am continuing to collaborate on the Women Leaders in Health and Conflict Initiative.

• Visiting Scholar at Queens University Belfast
  Sep 2016 - Present · 9 yrs 11 mos

• Citizenship, Recovery and Inclusive Society Partnership (CRISP) Secondee at Yale University
  May 2016 - Mar 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

  CRISP is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE). I was the co-ordinator for Mental Health Foundation and secondee with Yale University Programme for Recovery and Community Health.

• Editorial Board Member at Journal of Public Mental Health
  Feb 2015 - Mar 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos