I am super thrilled to announce that I have been named one of the five inaugural Irish National Forum Teaching and Learning Research Fellowships! I was shortlisted from an initial field of 54 along with eight top-notch Irish T&L researchers. It’s super cool that two of these were UCD Colleagues (Geraldine O’Neill – who was also one of the five awardees – and Tara Cusack) and two others were AISHE colleagues (Bernadette Brereton and Ronan Bree).

The five fellows and information on their projects can be found on the National Forum website. My fellowship research is titled:

Teaching and Learning for the Next Era of Digital Innovation

This research aims to help teaching and learning in Ireland plan for the next digital era. It will explore how disciplines and departments are advancing towards emerging digital technologies with an eye to the future world into which graduates will enter. The project will inform the professional development of those who teach so that they might be better positioned to foster skills, knowledge and competencies to deal with realities that are hard to imagine from today’s perspective as technologies such as big data, the internet of things and artificial intelligence revolutionise all disciplines.