Fiona holds a Certificate in Community Development from UCG, a BA in Sociological, Political and Legal Science, a LLM-in International Comparative Disability Law and Public Policy from NUI Galway, and currently completing the final year of the LLB Programme at NUI Galway. Fiona has a broad medical syndrome combined with psychosocial and mental health disabilities.
Her thesis for the LLM was entitled “Irish Mental Health Inpatient Services: In Crisis, A Shambles and Disintegrating”. Fiona tracked the most important non-compliance issues of fifty-eight approved centres devising tables and compiling statistics revealing non-compliance issues were repetitive and replicated from facility to facility on a countrywide basis.
Fiona is a long-standing advocate for the human rights approach to medical and mental healthcare and her primary interests revolve around medical and mental health law and practices and the implementation of UNCRPD is of particular interest in advancing the human rights of persons with disabilities in practice too.