Person

Walsh, Fintan

1979

Government of Ireland Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (IRCHSS) in Drama Studies at the School of Drama, Film and Music, Trinity College, Dublin

A Director of Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre from 2014-2025, leading research, knowledge exchange and public engagement projects in theatre, performance and socially engaged arts, while overseeing an Artist Fellowship scheme. He has been Director of Birkbeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality (BiGS, 2018-23), Chair of the School of Arts Research Ethics Committee (2019-23), and served on the steering committee of Birkbeck Institute for Social Research (2018-23). He was Programme Director of MA Text and Performance (2016-23) for which he established an industry partnership with Camden People's Theatre. He also has been Programme Director BA Theatre and Drama Studies and affiliate programmes (2014-16). Prior to joining Birkbeck, Fintan worked at Queen Mary University of London (2011-2012) and Trinity College Dublin, where he was Irish Research Council Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (2009-2011). He has been a visiting lecturer/researcher at Freie Universität Berlin (2014/16), Humanities Institute, University College Dublin (2014), and Helsinki University (2015)