As Director of the Responsible AI Cultural Leaders Academy, Oonagh supports the cultural sector to respond to the challenges and opportunities that AI technologies have on creative practice, and cultural management. She focuses on skills development, capacity building and strategic decision making.

She began working with the Arts Council in 2024 as a Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) Research Fellow, where she worked with the New Technologies and Innovation team to develop AI Governance structures and AI Policy for Arts Council, and led research into the use of AI in creative practice.

Her current role as Director of the Responsible AI Cultural Leaders Academy is part funded by BRAID, in parallel to this role she is as Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society at Goldsmiths University. Her writing on Responsible AI in the cultural sector has been published in six languages, she is a keynote speaker, and advisor to cultural organisations globally. She sits on the DCMS College of Experts, is a former Turing Fellow and Churchill Fellow.