Anne Marie Shier is a Lecturer at Technological University Dublin and a Doctoral Candidate at University College Cork. Her doctoral research focuses on reunion in intercountry adoption in the Irish context. Anne Marie has a Bachelor of Social Sciences and Master of Social Work from UCC and a Pg Diploma in Teaching and Learning from TU Dublin. As a Fulbright Awardee based at The Rudd Adoption Research Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst she will continue her Doctoral Research on reunion in intercountry adoption.