PhD Candidates

Wellbeing for responsible technology, governance, and compliance practitioners through emerging technology experiences

Design thinking and Further Education and Training (FET) practitioners: the impact of the design and evaluation of a novel design-thinking framework for FET practitioners in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) training

TAR (Telepresence Autism Research) focusing on the positive impact telepresence technology can have on people with Autism and other nonverbal and ‘hard to reach’ individuals.

Countermeasures to undermine allostatic load in People of Color in America through Nutrition and Personal Genetics

Developing a use case for using Mixed Reality in the underwater environment.

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Dis/Abilities Reconfigured:
Defining Human Capabilities and Vulnerabilities in an Age of Cyberthreat.

Researching computational thinking and kinaesthetic learning through open source software and inclusive design.

Creating, accessible, inclusive knowledge toolkits and/or experiences through AI and Game Technology for those, living with learning disabilities

Providing a framework to better support communities seeking to engage in action-based projects in environmental conservation and management to increase the impact of community action towards achieving national goals for biodiversity conservation.

Joel's interests lie at the intersection of design, technology and inclusion and this inspires his work at The Focus Co. and his PhD research at SMARTLab UCD.

Focused on inclusive design, global readiness, general compliance, business intelligence, release, and secondary channels.

Investigating the use of Technology as an Intervention for the vision issues associated with Dyspraxia

Bringing nature to
all abilities through VR-Nature to help reduce depression.

Researching the UNHCR’s Compreshensive Refugee Response Framework to apply to workers displaced by AI and automation.

Exploring the relationship between nêhiyawêwin (Cree language) and Gaeilge (Irish language) sound shapes and the relationship they have to the landscapes and land formations they engage with through song creation as methods for language learning and custodial land engagement.

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John's handwriting is a terrible mess and his colouring-in tends to be quite outside of the lines. He owns several, partially used, notebooks but loses all of them regularly and with great consistency.

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Mary is examining the intersection of fermentation, feminism and leadership for ecologically sound, sustainable transformation.

Studying the relationship between AI and ethics

Exploring the relationship between perfume, access and power.