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Eamonn Conway heads the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and is Joint Director, Centre for Culture, Technology and Values at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. A native of Galway, is a priest of the Tuam diocese. Rev. Dr. Conway has a B.A. in philosophy and sociology (NUI Maynooth) and has studied theology at Maynooth Pontifical University and at Eberhard-Karls University in Tubingen, Germany. He taught at All Hallows' College in Dublin for seven years, and is Visiting Professor at the Graduate Theological Foundation, Indiana (USA).

One of his principal research interests is the impact of technology on culture and religion. In particular, he is examining implications of the Information Society for the Christian vision of the human person; the digital divide; a human-centred approach to technology. His is also interested in other aspects of Faith and Culture Studies such as the relationship between the media and the Church and the Church and its exercise of power. Recent publications include Twin Pulpits: Essays in Media & Church (Veritas, 1997), The Splintered Heart (Veritas, 1998) and Child Sexual Abuse & the Catholic Church - A Pastoral Response (Columba Press, 1999). He and Michael Breen are co-chairs of the LSI group Religious Values and Social Change, one of the 15 societies that comprise the SophiaEuropa project.