UCD Research
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UCD is a leading European research-intensive university. Learn more at www.ucd.ie/research
🌱✨🚀 New research presents a roadmap for the plant science and technology breakthroughs needed to make long-term human life on the Moon - and later Mars - possible.
UCD's Dr Nicholas Brereton is a co-author on the NASA-led paper published today in New Phytologist.👇
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UCD's Dr Nicholas Brereton is a co-author on the NASA-led paper published today in New Phytologist.👇
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November 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🌱✨🚀 New research presents a roadmap for the plant science and technology breakthroughs needed to make long-term human life on the Moon - and later Mars - possible.
UCD's Dr Nicholas Brereton is a co-author on the NASA-led paper published today in New Phytologist.👇
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UCD's Dr Nicholas Brereton is a co-author on the NASA-led paper published today in New Phytologist.👇
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AI researchers, innovators & partners came together at the Chamber of Intelligence: AI Showcase at UCD today to share the impacts of research across CeADAR, Insight and Adapt.
Great to hear how this work is driving positive change in society! #AIShowcase
Great to hear how this work is driving positive change in society! #AIShowcase
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
AI researchers, innovators & partners came together at the Chamber of Intelligence: AI Showcase at UCD today to share the impacts of research across CeADAR, Insight and Adapt.
Great to hear how this work is driving positive change in society! #AIShowcase
Great to hear how this work is driving positive change in society! #AIShowcase
📢Chamber of Intelligence: An #AI Showcase: 25 Nov at UCD
Join Insight, CeADARIreland & the AdaptCentre for a dynamic AI research showcase connecting researchers, innovators & industry partners working at the cutting edge of AI.👇
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Join Insight, CeADARIreland & the AdaptCentre for a dynamic AI research showcase connecting researchers, innovators & industry partners working at the cutting edge of AI.👇
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November 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
📢Chamber of Intelligence: An #AI Showcase: 25 Nov at UCD
Join Insight, CeADARIreland & the AdaptCentre for a dynamic AI research showcase connecting researchers, innovators & industry partners working at the cutting edge of AI.👇
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Join Insight, CeADARIreland & the AdaptCentre for a dynamic AI research showcase connecting researchers, innovators & industry partners working at the cutting edge of AI.👇
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📰📺📻💻 2026 UCD Earth Institute Journalist in Residence call
📣 APPLY NOW
A great opportunity for up-and-coming and established journalists to work with UCD’s environmental and sustainability researchers!
🗓️ Deadline: 5pm, 8 December
Apply👉 lnkd.in/gWQJRgNk
📣 APPLY NOW
A great opportunity for up-and-coming and established journalists to work with UCD’s environmental and sustainability researchers!
🗓️ Deadline: 5pm, 8 December
Apply👉 lnkd.in/gWQJRgNk
November 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
📰📺📻💻 2026 UCD Earth Institute Journalist in Residence call
📣 APPLY NOW
A great opportunity for up-and-coming and established journalists to work with UCD’s environmental and sustainability researchers!
🗓️ Deadline: 5pm, 8 December
Apply👉 lnkd.in/gWQJRgNk
📣 APPLY NOW
A great opportunity for up-and-coming and established journalists to work with UCD’s environmental and sustainability researchers!
🗓️ Deadline: 5pm, 8 December
Apply👉 lnkd.in/gWQJRgNk
Dr Sulagna Maitra and Dr Vivek Nallur have been awarded Research Ireland #COALESCE funding for their Harm2Healing project, exploring how #AI can assist care-plan design for survivors of gender based violence.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Dr Sulagna Maitra and Dr Vivek Nallur have been awarded Research Ireland #COALESCE funding for their Harm2Healing project, exploring how #AI can assist care-plan design for survivors of gender based violence.
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Launching #UCD_Ai stories!
Meet Vanessa Carvalho, researcher with UCD's ConwaySPHERE group & #UCDAIHealthCareHub making a real difference to patients' lives.
❤️ 'Every line of data is a person'
Learn more about @ucddublin.bsky.social #data #revolution in #health #UCD_Ai
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Meet Vanessa Carvalho, researcher with UCD's ConwaySPHERE group & #UCDAIHealthCareHub making a real difference to patients' lives.
❤️ 'Every line of data is a person'
Learn more about @ucddublin.bsky.social #data #revolution in #health #UCD_Ai
www.ucd.ie/research/inf...
November 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Launching #UCD_Ai stories!
Meet Vanessa Carvalho, researcher with UCD's ConwaySPHERE group & #UCDAIHealthCareHub making a real difference to patients' lives.
❤️ 'Every line of data is a person'
Learn more about @ucddublin.bsky.social #data #revolution in #health #UCD_Ai
www.ucd.ie/research/inf...
Meet Vanessa Carvalho, researcher with UCD's ConwaySPHERE group & #UCDAIHealthCareHub making a real difference to patients' lives.
❤️ 'Every line of data is a person'
Learn more about @ucddublin.bsky.social #data #revolution in #health #UCD_Ai
www.ucd.ie/research/inf...
📚'Cultural Policy: Perspectives on the Island of Ireland' (Routledge, 2026), a new publication edited by Dr Victoria Durrer (UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy), Dr Ali FitzGibbon (QUB) and Dr Kerry McCall Magan (British Council Ireland) has been launched! Read more👇
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November 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
📚'Cultural Policy: Perspectives on the Island of Ireland' (Routledge, 2026), a new publication edited by Dr Victoria Durrer (UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy), Dr Ali FitzGibbon (QUB) and Dr Kerry McCall Magan (British Council Ireland) has been launched! Read more👇
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Minister James Lawless TD has announced a €34.5M investment in cutting-edge research under the Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future Programme.
Seven UCD initiatives were funded under the Projects stream and two UCD projects were funded under the Awards stream.
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Seven UCD initiatives were funded under the Projects stream and two UCD projects were funded under the Awards stream.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Minister James Lawless TD has announced a €34.5M investment in cutting-edge research under the Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future Programme.
Seven UCD initiatives were funded under the Projects stream and two UCD projects were funded under the Awards stream.
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Seven UCD initiatives were funded under the Projects stream and two UCD projects were funded under the Awards stream.
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#ScienceWeek🥣 Take the Oat bite and granola taste test
at the Explorium this Sunday 16 Nov! #UCDxExplorium
UCD's Joy Nnadiegbulam, Simona Grasso & Niamh Harbourne want your help to explore the development of new food products!
▶️https://explorium.ie
at the Explorium this Sunday 16 Nov! #UCDxExplorium
UCD's Joy Nnadiegbulam, Simona Grasso & Niamh Harbourne want your help to explore the development of new food products!
▶️https://explorium.ie
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
#ScienceWeek🥣 Take the Oat bite and granola taste test
at the Explorium this Sunday 16 Nov! #UCDxExplorium
UCD's Joy Nnadiegbulam, Simona Grasso & Niamh Harbourne want your help to explore the development of new food products!
▶️https://explorium.ie
at the Explorium this Sunday 16 Nov! #UCDxExplorium
UCD's Joy Nnadiegbulam, Simona Grasso & Niamh Harbourne want your help to explore the development of new food products!
▶️https://explorium.ie
💫 Rioko Moscardini is representing UCD in this year's IU 'Three Minute Thesis' competition!
🗳 Register to attend and vote in the ‘audience choice’ award at iua.ie/3minutethesis
🗳 Register to attend and vote in the ‘audience choice’ award at iua.ie/3minutethesis
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
💫 Rioko Moscardini is representing UCD in this year's IU 'Three Minute Thesis' competition!
🗳 Register to attend and vote in the ‘audience choice’ award at iua.ie/3minutethesis
🗳 Register to attend and vote in the ‘audience choice’ award at iua.ie/3minutethesis
🧠 #ScienceWeek Catch Anupa Sara Paulose's talk 'Not All Brains Fight the Same: Why Women and Men Experience Alzheimer’s Disease Differently' at 10.30 & 11.30, 12 Nov @ExploriumI!
Anupa is a Neuroscience PhD candidate at UCD School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science. #UCDxExplorium
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Anupa is a Neuroscience PhD candidate at UCD School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science. #UCDxExplorium
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November 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
🧠 #ScienceWeek Catch Anupa Sara Paulose's talk 'Not All Brains Fight the Same: Why Women and Men Experience Alzheimer’s Disease Differently' at 10.30 & 11.30, 12 Nov @ExploriumI!
Anupa is a Neuroscience PhD candidate at UCD School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science. #UCDxExplorium
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Anupa is a Neuroscience PhD candidate at UCD School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science. #UCDxExplorium
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#ScienceWeek Dr Áine Ní Choisdealbha of UCD Babylab is at Explorium today & Fri 14th to chat to visitors about 'Ages 0 to 100: A Century of Learning about Babies'. #UCDxExplorium
🍼👶Pop by and say hello! explorium.ie
#Research #Babylab
🍼👶Pop by and say hello! explorium.ie
#Research #Babylab
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
#ScienceWeek Dr Áine Ní Choisdealbha of UCD Babylab is at Explorium today & Fri 14th to chat to visitors about 'Ages 0 to 100: A Century of Learning about Babies'. #UCDxExplorium
🍼👶Pop by and say hello! explorium.ie
#Research #Babylab
🍼👶Pop by and say hello! explorium.ie
#Research #Babylab
Prof Judith Harford (UCD) and Prof Paul Reville (Harvard University) with former Minister for Education Richard Bruton and Prof Aine Hyland (UCC) at the launch of 'Advancing Equity: Insights from the Power2Progress Intervention' this week.
#Education #Research #Power2Progress
#Education #Research #Power2Progress
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Prof Judith Harford (UCD) and Prof Paul Reville (Harvard University) with former Minister for Education Richard Bruton and Prof Aine Hyland (UCC) at the launch of 'Advancing Equity: Insights from the Power2Progress Intervention' this week.
#Education #Research #Power2Progress
#Education #Research #Power2Progress
The DISRUPT project has been awarded a #ERC Synergy Grant for research that could reduce the energy consumption of next-generation wireless networks by 50%.
DISRUPT brings together world-leading researchers from UCD, TU Delft and Fraunhofer IAF. #ERCSyG
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DISRUPT brings together world-leading researchers from UCD, TU Delft and Fraunhofer IAF. #ERCSyG
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November 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The DISRUPT project has been awarded a #ERC Synergy Grant for research that could reduce the energy consumption of next-generation wireless networks by 50%.
DISRUPT brings together world-leading researchers from UCD, TU Delft and Fraunhofer IAF. #ERCSyG
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DISRUPT brings together world-leading researchers from UCD, TU Delft and Fraunhofer IAF. #ERCSyG
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The Irish Academy of Management has announced Prof Susi Geiger as the 2025 Distinguished International Scholar, marking the first time an Irish academic has received this prestigious honour.👇
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November 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The Irish Academy of Management has announced Prof Susi Geiger as the 2025 Distinguished International Scholar, marking the first time an Irish academic has received this prestigious honour.👇
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🎭📚A new volume 'Creative Pedagogies in Practice: Case Studies from Creative Futures Academy at UCD' explores how creativity can transform teaching, learning and collaboration.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
🎭📚A new volume 'Creative Pedagogies in Practice: Case Studies from Creative Futures Academy at UCD' explores how creativity can transform teaching, learning and collaboration.
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👇 ucd.ie/research/new...
PhD student Louise Keegan receives the inaugural Crean travel bursary award for her work on the impact of cocaine exposure on the development of the prenatal brain.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
PhD student Louise Keegan receives the inaugural Crean travel bursary award for her work on the impact of cocaine exposure on the development of the prenatal brain.
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✈️New research from UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School shows that taking greater investment risks with technologies and new lines of business can help lower emissions from the aviation industry.
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October 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
✈️New research from UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School shows that taking greater investment risks with technologies and new lines of business can help lower emissions from the aviation industry.
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🇮🇪Ireland will gain an AI Factory Antenna to boost national capabilities, co-funded by @deptoffhed.bsky.social & @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social
This #AI infrastructure will be implemented by a consortium led by ICHEC & CeADAR-Ireland's Centre for AI based at @ucddublin.bsky.social
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This #AI infrastructure will be implemented by a consortium led by ICHEC & CeADAR-Ireland's Centre for AI based at @ucddublin.bsky.social
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October 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🇮🇪Ireland will gain an AI Factory Antenna to boost national capabilities, co-funded by @deptoffhed.bsky.social & @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social
This #AI infrastructure will be implemented by a consortium led by ICHEC & CeADAR-Ireland's Centre for AI based at @ucddublin.bsky.social
www.ucd.ie/research/new...
This #AI infrastructure will be implemented by a consortium led by ICHEC & CeADAR-Ireland's Centre for AI based at @ucddublin.bsky.social
www.ucd.ie/research/new...
🗓️ Major European project RIGHTS-TO-UNITE will hold its interim conference on 30 Oct 2025 at UCD.
Join the project team and international speakers to discuss the future of European integration research from a rights angle!
➡️https://rightstounite.eu/rights-to-unite-interim-conference/
Join the project team and international speakers to discuss the future of European integration research from a rights angle!
➡️https://rightstounite.eu/rights-to-unite-interim-conference/
October 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🗓️ Major European project RIGHTS-TO-UNITE will hold its interim conference on 30 Oct 2025 at UCD.
Join the project team and international speakers to discuss the future of European integration research from a rights angle!
➡️https://rightstounite.eu/rights-to-unite-interim-conference/
Join the project team and international speakers to discuss the future of European integration research from a rights angle!
➡️https://rightstounite.eu/rights-to-unite-interim-conference/
🎭New book published by UCD Press goes behind the scenes of the groundbreaking #WakingTheFeminists grassroots movement for gender equality in Irish theatre.
📕WTF Happened: #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre (UCD Press, 2025)👇
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📕WTF Happened: #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre (UCD Press, 2025)👇
www.ucd.ie/research/new...
October 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
🎭New book published by UCD Press goes behind the scenes of the groundbreaking #WakingTheFeminists grassroots movement for gender equality in Irish theatre.
📕WTF Happened: #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre (UCD Press, 2025)👇
www.ucd.ie/research/new...
📕WTF Happened: #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre (UCD Press, 2025)👇
www.ucd.ie/research/new...
The Irish Social Science Data Archive (ISSDA) based at UCD Library has launched ISSDA Dataverse!
The new platform significantly enhances how users can access, discover and work with archived social science data.
🗓️Sign up for the upcoming ISSDA Dataverse demo on 16 Oct!⬇️
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The new platform significantly enhances how users can access, discover and work with archived social science data.
🗓️Sign up for the upcoming ISSDA Dataverse demo on 16 Oct!⬇️
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October 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The Irish Social Science Data Archive (ISSDA) based at UCD Library has launched ISSDA Dataverse!
The new platform significantly enhances how users can access, discover and work with archived social science data.
🗓️Sign up for the upcoming ISSDA Dataverse demo on 16 Oct!⬇️
ucd.ie/research/new...
The new platform significantly enhances how users can access, discover and work with archived social science data.
🗓️Sign up for the upcoming ISSDA Dataverse demo on 16 Oct!⬇️
ucd.ie/research/new...
Congratulations to Prof Helen Roche on her appointment to the Board of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI)!⬇️
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October 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Congratulations to Prof Helen Roche on her appointment to the Board of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI)!⬇️
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🏅Congratulations to Dr Tess McCann on winning the 2025 UCD_Conway Festival Gold Medal!
Dr McCann was recognised for published research describing the discovery of a mutation in a gene called emc1 that causes major vision problems in zebrafish.
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Dr McCann was recognised for published research describing the discovery of a mutation in a gene called emc1 that causes major vision problems in zebrafish.
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October 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🏅Congratulations to Dr Tess McCann on winning the 2025 UCD_Conway Festival Gold Medal!
Dr McCann was recognised for published research describing the discovery of a mutation in a gene called emc1 that causes major vision problems in zebrafish.
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Dr McCann was recognised for published research describing the discovery of a mutation in a gene called emc1 that causes major vision problems in zebrafish.
ucd.ie/research/new...
Phase 2 of Ireland’s largest ever cancer research programme
Precision Oncology Ireland (POI) was launched today!
Since 2019, Precision Oncology Ireland (POI) has accelerated personalised cancer therapy & diagnostics, POI-2 represents double the scale & ambition.👇
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Precision Oncology Ireland (POI) was launched today!
Since 2019, Precision Oncology Ireland (POI) has accelerated personalised cancer therapy & diagnostics, POI-2 represents double the scale & ambition.👇
ucd.ie/research/new...
October 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Phase 2 of Ireland’s largest ever cancer research programme
Precision Oncology Ireland (POI) was launched today!
Since 2019, Precision Oncology Ireland (POI) has accelerated personalised cancer therapy & diagnostics, POI-2 represents double the scale & ambition.👇
ucd.ie/research/new...
Precision Oncology Ireland (POI) was launched today!
Since 2019, Precision Oncology Ireland (POI) has accelerated personalised cancer therapy & diagnostics, POI-2 represents double the scale & ambition.👇
ucd.ie/research/new...