Jennifer Moran Stritch is a lecturer and postgraduate supervisor in the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Health. Trained as a social worker in the United States, she has professional experience across inpatient psychiatric services, prison facilities, community mental health and homelessness supports. Her teaching focuses on personal development, therapeutic group work skills, and loss and grief for health and social care professionals.
Jennifer is the principal investigator of the Loss and Grief Research Group, part of the TUS Social Sciences ConneXions Research Institute. She teaches on the RCSI/Irish Hospice Foundation MSc in Loss and Bereavement and is a Certified Thanatologist and a Fellow in Thanatology with the Association for Death Education and Counselling.
In 2015, Jennifer co-hosted the first Death Café in the greater Limerick area, creating a space where people could gather over cake, tea and coffee to talk openly about death and grief. She is a member of the Global Dying Well Initiative’s international steering group and a founding member of the Limerick Local Bereavement Network. She is professionally certified as an End-of-Life Doula by the University of Vermont. In 2025, Jennifer was named TUS RISE Research Supervisor of the Year for the Faculty of Science and Health.