Caroline Ann O’Sullivan is a senior lecturer and Head of the School of Media in Technological University Dublin where she has worked since 2017.

She was previously co-director of the Centre for Creative Arts Research and Senior Lecturer in Creative Media in Dundalk Institute of Technology where she lectured from 2000-2017. A cultural sociologist, Caroline has lectured across the disciplines of Media and Film Studies, Digital Media Culture, Popular Music and intersectional issues in Creative Media Industries. 

Caroline holds a PhD in Sociology from Trinity College Dublin, an MSc in Multimedia from DCU and a BA in Sociology and Information Science from UCD. She has published and presented worldwide on intersectional issues in the arts and media, gender and class in the music and screen industries; media literacy, popular culture, identity and expression online and the night time economy.

  Caroline has extensive experience in committee membership and oversight. She was previously a member of the management committee of Honeycomb – Creative Works, a €5,000,000 INTEREG IV project funded by SUEPB promoting the Creative Industries across the border counties of the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and West of Scotland.  She is currently a member of the steering committee of the European wide Live Music Mapping project and is the branch chair of the UK and Ireland branch of the International Association of the study of Popular Music.