Professor Kathleen Lynch is a sociologist and has devoted her life’s work to promoting equality, human rights, and social justice through education and research. She has published eight books and three-hundred articles on all types of equality issues. She played the lead role in establishing the Equality Studies Centre in UCD in 1990 and the School of Social Justice in 2004/5. She also led the development of the M.Sc. and Diploma in Equality Studies in UCD in 1990, developed several Outreach Equality Studies programmes in collaboration with Community Groups over a thirty-year period, and pioneered the development of the BCL (Law and Social Justice) with the UCD Law Faculty in 2013/14.