Dunia Hutchinson

Dunia Hutchinson is the Group Director of Intellectual Disability & Autism Services with Inspire Wellbeing, an all-island charity. She has previously worked with the Society of St Vincent de Paul as their National Manager of Homeless Services and with the HSE & Tusla as a frontline service manager and Social Care Worker in residential services for children and young people. She has lectured on the Social Care education programmes in the former DIT and IT Carlow and was a member of the Social Care Workers Registration Board until March 2023.  A Maynooth University graduate in Applied Social Studies, Dunia also holds an MPhil in Gender & Women’s Studies from Trinity College Dublin and a Diploma in Law from the Law Society of Ireland in addition to her core professional qualifications from the former Dublin Institute of Technology.