Maura Hiney

Dr Maura Hiney is a qualified nurse who holds a PhD in Molecular Epizootiology and Diagnostics. Her career spans roles as a researcher, Head of the University of Galway Research Office, and Senior Manager at a national funding agency, where she led policy, evaluation, and international activities.

Maura is currently an Adjunct Professor of Research Integrity at University College Dublin’s Institute for Discovery. She works with the UCD Research Culture team to examine connections between research integrity and culture. In 2025, she was elected to the Royal Irish Academy for her contributions to both national and international research integrity policy. Maura is a founding member of the Irish National Research Integrity Forum and played a key role in developing the first National Policy on Ensuring Integrity in Irish Research (updated in 2019 and 2024) and the 2022 Guidelines on Ensuring Integrity in Collaborative Research. She is currently the principal investigator on the first Survey on Research Integrity in Ireland. Internationally, she has collaborated with various groups to develop policies that promote trust in science, including Science Europe and the former ALLEA Permanent Working Group on Science and Ethics, where she served as Chair and co-authored the ALLEA European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity (2017 and 2023). She participates on the boards of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation and the Embassy of Good Science, and acted as co-chair of the 8th World Conference on Research Integrity in 2024. Maura Hiney was a partner in the SOPs4RI project, which produced SOPs and guidelines to support good research practices and research integrity promotion plans for inclusion in European grant agreements. She is also a member of the Policy Advisory Boards for several EU-funded projects focused on ethics and research integrity.