Dara Cassidy

Dr Dara Cassidy is Head of Digital Education at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences in Dublin, where she contributes to institutional strategy, policy and governance for AI in education. A member of the Health Professions Education Centre, she teaches on postgraduate programmes and leads the education strand of RCSI's AI and Digital Health Committee. She is RCSI lead on AI2MED, an Erasmus+ project advancing the integration of AI into healthcare, and has served on the Working Group on the Ethical Use of AI and Data in Education, which revised the European Commission's AI guidelines for educators. Previously Director of Online Learning at Hibernia College, Dara has over 25 years' experience in technology-enhanced higher education. Her current research explores how educators navigate questions of agency, identity and professional self in the age of generative AI.