Associate Professor, Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, Her research and teaching interests include organizations, digital sociology, gamification, conflict resolution and disaster management, globalization and comparative social change. Her books include Networks of Democracy: Lessons from Kosovo for Afghanistan, Iraq and Beyond published by Stanford University Press in 2005; and Community, Competition and Citizen Science: Voluntary Distributed Computing in a Globalized World, UK, Ashgate Publishing, 2013. From 2016-2019, she was PI and Coordinator of Gaming for Peace (GAP), a 2 million euro project funded under H2020 CSA and running from 2016-2019. GAP creates a curriculum of 'soft skills' (gender awareness, cultural awareness, communication) for peacekeeping personnel and embeds it in a role-playing digital game with assessment. In 2020-2022, Dr Holohan is PI of a grant from the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs which supports the use of GAP by end user organizations and the collection of research data. She is PI of Transformation in Learning and Training (TiLT), which is developing curricula and digital role-playing games to mitigate individual and systemic biases around gender, race and ethnicity, in public organizations, delivered through an online platform.