SMARTlab PhD Seminar @ UCD June 29-3/4 July 2026
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Welcome!
All registered PhD candidates at UCD MUST attend all sessions. All others welcome to attend individual sessions.
All Meeting Rooms are in the UCD O’Connor Centre for the Future of Learning, located by the main gate on the Stillorgan Road. Parking is free during the summer in the O’Reily Hall car park next door.
The zoom link for the full week is below. PLEASE turn off your audio prior to entering the zoom.
Lizbeth Goodman is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Meeting chat link https://ucd-ie.zoom.us/launch/jc/64839461827
Meeting ID: 648 3946 1827
Welcome
Day 1, Monday June 29th: O’Connor Room L 3.18
10:00 - 10:15 Welcome all! Call to Presence: Touchstones—On Being Where you are, Where you are not: led by Lizbeth Goodman
10:15 - 10:30 Rules of Engagement in the SMARTlab PhD (etiquette)
10:30 - 11am Around the room to meet the PhD Candidates!
11-11:30am All information - everything everywhere at once: the PhD Programme overview at speed
11:30-12:00 Guest Lecture- Reinventing Digitality with Artistic Tenacity, by Dr Lynne Heller
12:00-12:15 What do you mean by that?—academic jargon-busting game
12:15-1:00pm SMARTlab TJU faculty introductions- many ways to conduct research - the gestalt shift: Dr Kirby Wycoff and Dr Jacelyn Biondo
1:00-1:45 pm Lunch break
13:45 - 14:30 Dr Amanda Rabinowitz: Conducting ethical rehabilitation research
14:30 - 15:00 Conducting Emergent Design Research with N=1 Methods by Dr Conor Brennan
1500 - 17:00 Special Session with the An Saol Foundation
For Life and Living with Severe Acquired Brain Injury: panelists- Reinhard Schaler (Director), Padraig Schaler and Pat Byrne with Lizbeth, Conor, Amanda, Kirby, Jacelyn, Lou Hunter et al
6pm on optional group supper booked at Platform Pizza, Bray
Day 2, Tuesday June 30th: O’Connor Room L 3.18
10am Call to Presence led by Jacelyn Biondo: Dancing your PhD!
10:30 - 11:00 Dr Hongsuk Yoon: From Interface to Infrastructure: Expanding the Scope of HCI Research
11:00 - 12:00 Organising and Documenting your PhD Journey led by Lizbeth (Forms and processes/Make your folders: PhD, Postdoc, Quote bin)
12:00-1pm Dr Kirby Wycoff, Dr Jacelyn Biondo, Dr Amanda Rabinowitz and Prof Lizbeth Goodman Roundtable on Ways to Conduct a PhD
1:00 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 4:00 Introducing the Plumbline and Circles of Knowledge, led by Lizbeth, The Plumbline! 5 minutes per student
4:00 - 5:00 Diarmuid Stokes, UCD expert on Academic Referencing: On Systematic Reviews versus Literature Reviews with a System
6:00 - 9:00 Optional Dinner, booked at Burler and Barry, Bray
Day 3 Wednesday, July 1st: O’Connor rooms L1.15, L1
10:00 - 10:15 Call to Presence: led by Mary Nolan: Feeling your PhD
10:15 - 11:30 Mags Greyson: Hands-on Workshop on Futures Present - exploring responsible creative risk in research
11:30 - 12:30 Getting things straight: Dr Kirby Wycoff on Alignment of your Ontology, Epistemology and Methodology
12:30-12:45 Speed round- What do you mean by that?—academic jargon-busting game
12 :45-1:45pm Lunch break
13:45 - 14:30 Dr Pierre Jolivet: Deep Dive in Critical Theory: Walter Benjamin
14:30 - 15:30 Dr Pierre Jolivet leads the new and improved/expanded Theory Quiz
15:30- 16:30 Dr Aigars Ceplitis - Deep Dive into Grounded Theory and
15:30-16:30 Eva Murphy mock viva with Lizbeth, Colin, Anita (O’Connor L0.04)
16:30- 17:00 Ask me Anything!!! Led by Lizbeth
6pm on Optional group supper - The Martello, Bray- supper booked outside and then in for the Traditional PUB QUIZ!
Day 4, Thursday, July 2: O’Connor Rooms L1.15, L1.17
Writers Retreat - Day 1 – nb: bring snacks as lunch is later today!
10am Call to Presence led by Carol Brill: Sensing your PhD
10:30 - 11:00 Workshop on Visual Thinking and Variations on Presenting Research, led by Lizbeth: independent work and
11:00am Lizbeth with Research Ireland
11:30 - 12:30 SMARTlab TJU students present on their work: Lou Hunter, Chris Mitchell, Paul Coleman
12:30 - 1pm Dr Chris Hales introduces SMARTlab Riga PhD student projects
1:00 - 1:30 Mary Nolan: Ethics of Care
1:30 -2:00 pm Mary Carden: Gamifying Visual Processing Therapy
2:30 - 4 pm Lunch- SMME BBQ on the Belfield House Lawn (if sunny) or in the Confucious Institute (if rainy)
2:00- 3:pm RSP for new candidate Salma: Paul, Lizbeth, Jeffrey and Blanaid
4:00 - 6pm Special Session on Deafblind Awareness with the Anne Sullivan
Foundation and Usher Syndrome Ireland with the INCLUDE Deafblind Project Team: Deirdre, Sorcha, Carol, James, Lizbeth, Colin, Mary N, Phil, Jose, Rob, Kate, et al. (PPI IGNITE)
6pm on Optional Supper - Datta Tandoori Bray
Day 5, Friday July 3: Location TBC (UCD or Bray, rain or shine)
Writers Retreat - Day 2
10am Call to Presence led by Mary Carden: PhD Mindset: top tips
10:30 - 11:30 Mirror Mirror on the Wall: giving yourself permission to shine and to work on your PhD, led by Lizbeth, Chris H, Kirby & Jacelyn
11:30 - 12:30 Presence, Absence & Writing: create your own your flow-state, led by Lizbeth & in parallel Jacelyn and Kirby lead a Dance Therapy workshop on site at An Saol
12:30 - 1pm Responsible Critique and Feedback: sharing while caring & Selection of dates for the Autumn seminar
1:00 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:00 On Common Ground: Gwendoline Sandow leads an interactive walking/writing inspiration exercise
3:00 - 4:30 Walking the Journey Together: Annotated Bibliographies / Establishing a Buddy System: local and distant methodological pals to take this important journey with you!
4:30 - 5pm Gifts that Keep on Giving- tips and offers of solidarity from all to all
6:00 - 8:00 Optional Supper - Harbour Bar Bray (Upstairs, Pope Side), Customary Knees-up at the ‘Lonely Planet Best Pub in the World
Until we Meet Again!
Optional Days, Saturday, July 4th
Writers Retreat - Day 3 (Optional)
10am Call to Presence led by Lizbeth and the Doggies of Philosophy (PhDoggies)
10:30 - 1pm Intensive Directed Writing, led by Lizbeth
1:00 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 6pm Sign up for individual time with Lizbeth, Chris, Colin, Kirby, Jacelyn or Amanda to work on your specific writing issues/needs
6:00 – late Optional Exploration of a local castle or other cultural site with supper - location to be discovered!
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