Dr Siobhán O’Connor is the Principal Investigator of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine funded FarMHealth research project. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Health and Human Performance in Dublin City University and Co-director of the Centre for Injury Prevention and Performance.  Dr O’Connor has extensive experience in health research, particularly injury surveillance, wellbeing and mental health help-seeking in high-pressure occupations and has published over 90 research papers in this field. Her interest in farming and farm families stems from growing up on a farm in East Cork.

Dr. Anna Donnla O’Hagan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Health & Human Performance at Dublin City University and is a Co-Investigator on the FarMHealth research project. She has a strong background in health, and wellbeing research, with a specialty in occupational health, performance, and psychology. Her main research interests include performance in high-pressure occupations, stress, mental health, and wellbeing.

Dr. Joe Firnhaber is the postdoctoral researcher on the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine funded FarMHealth research project. Before joining the project, he completed a PhD on Irish Masculinity at the University of Limerick. In addition to gender, Joe’s research focuses on the ways that language, place, and culture shapes people’s wellbeing and understanding of themselves. Joe's motivation to work with farmers and farm families stems from growing up in rural America and experiencing both the challenges and benefits that rural communities face.

Sandra Malone is the research assistant on the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine funded FarMHealth research project. Sandra has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Masters of Science in Health Psychology awarded by National University of Ireland, Galway. She has previous experience in farmer mental health research and was highly commended at the Global Undergraduate Awards in 2021 for her study on Irish dairy farmers entitled ‘Investigating the Effects of Stress on Farmer Self-Efficacy and How it is Undermined by Mental Health and Social Support’. Sandra also has experience in farm health and safety research, having contributed to the Teagasc BeSafe project which evaluated a tractor safety intervention for Irish farmers. Sandra has a huge interest in farmer mental health and safety, coming from a dairy farm in Co. Westmeath herself.

Dr Sinéad O’Keeffe holds the position of Assistant Professor in Athletic Therapy in the School of Health and Human Performance at Dublin City University. Sinéad is a Certified Athletic Therapist and key member of the Centre for Injury Prevention and Performance. Her main research interests are within the areas of mental health, injury and performance-related outcomes within the community, inclusive of sporting and farming cohorts. Sinéad has a keen interest in farmer mental health from being an active farmer on a suckler farm in County Clare.