Aaron Gallagher

Aaron Gallagher is a PhD Researcher in Communications at Dublin City University, specialising in sports media. He was a 2022/2023 Fulbright Scholar at the University of Maryland, conducting research at the Povich Center for Sports Journalism in the United States. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism in 2017 followed by a Master’s Degree in Social Media Communications in 2019.

He has worked for a number of years as a sports journalist, and has been published in national publications like The Journal, The Irish Times and Ireland's state broadcaster RTÉ. He was Editor-in-Chief of DCU's student newspaper and was named National Press Journalist of the Year at the National Student Media Awards. He was awarded News Journalist of the Year at the Hybrid Media Awards and named on SportforBusiness.com’s ’30 Under 30: Young Leaders of Tomorrow’ in 2018.

He took part in the Washington Ireland Programme in 2021 and recently completed a sports policy traineeship with the European Olympic Committee at their EU office in Belgium. He is a Board Member for the International Association for Communication and Sport (IACS) acting as Graduate Student Representative. His research interests are sport, media, journalism and communications.