Dr Niamh Murphy is a senior lecturer in the School of Health Sciences at Waterford Institute of Technology. She has a PhD and Masters from The Queens University Belfast (1999; 1991) and an undergraduate degree in physical education from the University of Limerick (1988). Dr Murphy has 25 years of teaching and research supervision experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in health promotion and exercise and health. Research interests and publications include population physical activity, evaluations of community-based health promotion initiatives, physical activity policy, and the role of mass events in population health. Dr Murphy is a member of the International Society for Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH), Health Enhancing Physical Activity Network (HEPA) Europe (steering group member) and International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA). She is co-investigator of the Irish Physical Activity Research Collaboration (I-PARC).