Dr Roger O’Sullivan is the Director of CARDI. He has previously worked in Queen’s University Belfast and the Rural Community Network in Cookstown. He has undertaken a wide range of research on issues relating to older people including research for the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister and the Northern Ireland Housing Executive.

Elaine Cartmill is the Administration & Finance Officer with CARDI.  Previously she has worked as a Development & Support Officer on a cross border project with Age Action Ireland and Age Concern Northern Ireland, on ‘Actively Ageing Well’ with Age Concern NI and previous to those positions with Newry & Mourne Leader Company on the Leader+ project and other rural initiatives.  Elaine is a 2008 Churchill Fellow being awarded the opportunity to travel to New Zealand to study ‘reminiscence methods and intergenerational practices within care facilities’.

Paul McGill is the Strategic Policy Officer of CARDI. He graduated in law and worked as a journalist covering education, mainly for the Irish Times, Belfast Telegraph, Guardian and TES.  Later he worked for the National Curriculum Council in England and then for ten years as a social policy consultant specialising in education, training, employment, equality, poverty and social exclusion issues. Before joining CARDI he was with NICVA, where his main job was to edit the monthly social policy magazine SCOPE.

Nicola Donnelly is the Communications Officer with CARDI. She graduated in journalism and has previously worked in corporate communications at Bord Bia (The Irish Food Board) and as Communications Officer with international development NGO Concern Worldwide. She has also worked as a PR executive with Carr Communications.