PhD Candidates

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

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.

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.

“Applying Inclusive Design Practice to Novel Interfaces for Extreme Users with Locked-in Syndrome by using VR Head-mounted Display (HMD)”.

Studying the effect and perception of light and colour in AR / VR headsets

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

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Studying the relationship between AI and ethics

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

Focusing on the affordances of immersive storytelling to stimulate prosocial behaviour; comparing the efficacy of an immersive vs. a non-immersive pro-environmental intervention.

Studying technology and the role it can play to affect social change

Interested in the collision of technology and society and where conflicts of ethics, trust, and governance emerge

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Investigating how the Public Funding and Support System provide equitable public funding and support for Learners in need of Educational HEAT solutions

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

Measuring the impact
of augmented reality (AR) applications on learners’ engagement, motivation, and
performance focusing on undergraduate students in third-level business education.

Bureaucracy Map: An inclusively designed User eXperience template for institutional navigation.

Exploring the relationship between perfume, access and power.

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

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

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

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

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.