Maura Hiney

Maura Hiney, Ph.D., is Adjunct Professor of Research Integrity at University College Dublin’s Institute for Discovery, where she collaborates with the Research Culture team on the links between integrity and research culture. In 2025, she was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in recognition of her contributions to research integrity policy. She is a founding member of the Irish National Research Integrity Forum and co-developed Ireland’s first National Policy on Research Integrity (2014, updated 2019 and 2024) as well as the 2022 Guidelines on Collaborative Research. She currently leads the first national survey on research integrity in Ireland. Internationally, she has worked with Science Europe and the ALLEA Permanent Working Group on Science and Ethics, where she co-authored the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity (2017, revised 2023). She serves on the boards of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation, the Embassy of Good Science, and several European Union project advisory boards.