ProfessorMaeve Conrick

Professor Maeve Conrick was educated at UCC (First Class Honours BA and MA), the Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland (Swiss Government Scholarship) and the Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille 1, France (NUI Travelling Studentship in French). She completed her doctorate in Linguistics at Aix-Marseille I, France, under the direction of Professor Georges Mounin. Her research interests are primarily in the areas of Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, with particular reference to French and English, and include Language Policy and Language Planning, Language and Gender, Canadian Studies and Québec studies. She has published extensively in those areas in books, book chapters and articles in international journals. Among her recent publications are co-edited books, Landscapes and Landmarks of Canada, real, imagined, (re)viewed (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2017) and Multiculturalism and Integration: Canadian and Irish Experiences (University of Ottawa Press, 2010). She has published articles in a range of peer-reviewed international journals including the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, International Journal of Francophone Studies, British Journal of Canadian Studies, Québec Studies and Canadian Journal of Irish Studies / Revue canadienne d'études irlandaises. She is currently Editor of the British Journal of Canadian Studies. In 2017, Professor Conrick was the first Irish academic to receive the honour of the Governor General's International Award in Canadian Studies, awarded for outstanding contribution to scholarship and the to development of Canadian Studies internationally.
In 2012 Professor Conrick was awarded the degree of Doctor of Literature (DLitt), a higher doctorate on published work, by the National University of Ireland. Career distinctions to date include an appointment as Specialist Advisor to a UK House of Commons Committee and the Prix du Québec awarded by the Government of Québec. She has contributed actively to many national and international professional associations and has held office on the Executive Committee of the British Association of Applied Linguistics, the European Second Language Association (Treasurer), as a Director of the Association internationale des études québécoises and the International Council for Canadian Studies, as President of the Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland (two terms), and as a Trustee of the Ireland-Canada University Foundation (ICUF). In 2011, she was appointed by the Irish Government as a member of the Higher Education Authority (HEA) and was its Deputy Chair from 2012 to 2014. She was appointed as a Board Member of the National Library of Ireland (NLI) by the Irish Government in 2015 (and re-appointed for a second term)and acted as Chair of the NLI Audit and Risk Committee. In 2019, Professor Conrick was appointed as a Member of the Dublin Dental University Hospital Board by the Minister for Health. In 2020, the Government of Ireland appointed her as a lay member of the Judicial Conduct Committee. She is also currently a member of the Governing Authority of University College Cork, appointed by the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. She completed two terms as a member of the Press Counil of Ireland, and In 2022, was elected Deputy Chair. 

In 2025, she was appointed by the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF 2029) as an Intenational Expert on Main Panel D, Arts and Humanities.