Dr. Siobhán Lucey received her PhD (Economics) from the University of Glasgow. She is a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and an Erasmus+ DELTA scholar and a Visiting Fellow at the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at the Australian National University.

She is an alumnus of the Advance HE Aurora programme for female leaders and a winner of the Network Ireland Cork "Employee Shining Star" award. An experienced academic in Economics, she has previously worked at the University of Stirling and has held visiting scholar positions at the University of Edinburgh, University of St. Andrews, University of Dundee, University of Strathclyde and the Australian National University (GIWL); she is currently a visiting scholar at Boston College. 

She is Chair of the University's External Examiners Committee; Co-founder and inaugural President of the University Women's Network (Mna@UCC - Women's Network | University College Cork (ucc.ie)); and a Network Ireland Cork committee member (Network Ireland Cork Branch). 

Her academic and research interests focus on various areas of applied econometrics including education, EDI, health and crime. She is a founding member and co-Chair of the ISS21 Crime and Social Harm (CSH) research cluster.