Joyce O'Connor

{{short description|Irish academic, President of National College of Ireland 1990-2007}}

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|office = President of National College of Ireland

|term_start = 1990

|term_end = 2007

|predecessor = Fr. Thomas Morrissey

|successor = Dr. Paul Mooney

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Joyce O'Connor was President of National College of Ireland for fifteen years. She is a sister of Seán FitzPatrick.

{{cite news

|url=http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/anglo-books-are-a-whos-who-of-the-celtic-tigers-1591551.html

|title=Anglo books are a who's who of the Celtic tigers

|date=4 January 2009

|work=Irish Independent

|publisher=Independent News & Media

|accessdate=14 January 2011}}

Educated in Loreto Convent Bray and University College Dublin, O'Connor was Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social Science, UCD and Head of the Department of Languages and Applied Social Studies at the University of Limerick where she founded and directed the Social Research Centre.{{fact|date=December 2021}}

O'Connor has published widely on education and access issues, entrepreneurship, women in business, careers, innovation and enterprise, drinking & smoking behaviours and the elderly. Professor O’Connor is involved in many Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives and is co-editor of a book on the area.{{fact|date=December 2021}}

During her period as President she managed the major expansion of the College including the major increase in student numbers and the relocation of the College from Ranelagh to the campus in the IFSC.

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|url=http://www.ncirl.ie/Current_Students/Norma_Smurfit_Library/National_College_of_Ireland:_Past,_Present_and_Future_/Profiles_of_Distinguished_Directors

|title=Profiles of Distinguished Directors

|work=Fr. Tom Morrisey

|publisher=National College of Ireland

|accessdate=15 January 2011

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|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721125739/http://www.ncirl.ie/Current_Students/Norma_Smurfit_Library/National_College_of_Ireland%3A_Past%2C_Present_and_Future_/Profiles_of_Distinguished_Directors

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