Margaret Mc Loone is a Lecturer in Health Science and Health Promotion within Department of Health & Nutritional Sciences within the Faculty if Science. Margaret las lectured on a wide variety of programmes since commencing her post in 2000 from level 6 to level 9 postgraduate award programmes Her main areas of interest and expertise are health determinants, health promotion practice, population health, settings and topics in health promotion. 

Margaret current research interests are in the following areas; Infant Feeding, Mental Health, Mental Ill health, Well-being and Healthy Campus.  Margaret holds an honours degree in Sport and Exercise Science from the University of Limerick.  She also holds a Masters degree from National University of Ireland, Galway in Health Promotion Studies.  Margaret is currently pursuing a PhD within the Discipline of Health Promotion in NUI, Galway in the area of Infant Feeding under the guidance of Professor Saoirse Nic Gabhainn and Professor Colette Kelly.