A native of Co. Laois, Adrian Kavanagh is a lecturer at the Maynooth University Department of Geography. He currently has the role of Third Year/Final Year (Undergraduate Studies) Manager within the Department, while he also administers/organises the Final Year (Double Honours) research project programme (the GY310B module). He was elected on to the University's Academic Council as a representative of the Faculty of Social Science in May 2016. His main research interests focus on the geography of elections and his website offers insights from these researches.