Dr Roger O’Sullivan is the Director of CARDI.  He has previously worked in Queen’s University Belfast and the regional rural organisation Rural Community Network. He is currently joint convener of the UK Funders Forum on Ageing, guest editor of the journal Quality in Ageing and Older Adults and was recently rapporteur for the Ditchley Foundation’s international conference on the Impact of Ageing on Developed Economies. Dr O’Sullivan 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 at 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 Research Officer at 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 at 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. 

Conor Breen is the Policy Officer – Research Translation at CARDI. He graduated in law from University College Dublin and has previously worked for the Education Directorate at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris. He then moved to London to manage the research function at PR agency The Communication Group and also worked as Senior Researcher at the National Association of Pension Funds.