Professor Michelle Butler is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science and Health at Dublin City University. She has extensive research, teaching, assessment, and curriculum development experience and previously held academic leadership positions at the University of British Columbia and University College Dublin. Her background is in nursing and midwifery, and she has conducted research studies in nursing, midwifery, and health services management, in Canada, the UK and Ireland. Her research expertise is in evaluation research, mixed methods, qualitative methods, case study, Delphi and consensus methods, and systematic reviews. She also has a particular interest in building research capacity with clinical and health services partners and has established joint research networks between clinicians and academics in Canada and Ireland. Currently she is Chair of the REACH Collaboratory - a joint research initiative between DCU and the HSE Dublin North City and County.