Dr. Meg Ryan is an Assistant Professor in Trinity College Dublin, and Director of the MSc in Global Mental Health.

Her research interests are focused on reproductive justice, sexual and gender-based violence and LGBTQIA+ health and mental health, with a particular focus on qualitative methodologies. Meg is TCD PI for a research partnership with International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and the Moroccan Family Planning Association (AMPF). This project is funded by the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI), and explores the experience of reproductive violence among Moroccan women and refugee women accessing health care in Morocco. Meg received a BA(Hons) in Psychology from TCD, where she also completed the Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology.

Her doctoral research explored the experience of providing crisis pregnancy counselling in Ireland during a period of legislative changes regarding abortion provision. Meg is a practicing Chartered Counselling Psychologist and works from a feminist psychotherapy perspective incorporating both humanistic and psychodynamic principles.

Meg is a founding member of the PSI Special Interest Group for Human Rights and Psychology and is Chair of the Research Advisory Committee for Mental Health Reform.

Gender, Sexuality & Power
 Trauma, Mental Health & Recovery