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UMT Digital Campus Group

The UMT DCG is established to provide high-level oversight in creating and overseeing the delivery of the digital roadmap and work programmes in support of UCD’s academic mission and UCD’s University Strategy 2030 Breaking Boundaries. The focus of the roadmap is to build on and expand the capabilities of the university digital campus across all locations where the university is active, to ensure alignment with wider campus infrastructure development and to ensure strong digital competencies are developed in our student and staff community.

It will advise and make recommendations to the UMT on emerging digital solutions, digital innovations and strategic digital investment opportunities. Furthermore it will guide the organisation in the effective use of Artificial Intelligence technologies and services.

It will focus on setting out and implementing a clear roadmap, which will inform capital strategic planning, ensuring that digital technologies are in direct support of the University’s ambition in learning, research and innovation, and services. Furthermore, it will ensure collective ownership in the execution of change.

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For further information, please do not hesitate to get in touch with  (opens in a new window)UCD's IT PMO Manager .

UMT Digital Campus Group Meeting Schedule 2025/2026

 Meeting Date

Monday, 22 September 2025, 2-4pm

Monday, 24 November 2025, 2-4pm

Wednesday, 4 February 2026, 2-4pm

Thursday, 30 April 2026, 2-4pm

 Wednesday, 3 June 2026, 2-4pm

Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 2-4pm

Monday, 23 November 2026, 2-4pm

Terms of Reference

  • Set and implement a clear roadmap to ensure that our digital technologies support our ambitions in learning, research and innovation and services.
  • Ensure a people-centric, technology-enabled ethos is clear in all aspects of the roadmap, ensuring they are customer focused, value driven and seamless across functional areas.
  • Provide a focal point for recommendations from Colleges, Schools, Units and Institutes concerning advancements in digital information technology as they impact the academic mission of the University.
  • Ensure faculty members and teachers have inclusive, engaging, adaptive and interactive applications available to them, and the required training, for effective teaching and learning.
  • Improve the digital campus environment that students interact with providing an inclusive, seamless, engaging and supportive teaching and learning experience.
  • Ensure the research community has access to best-in-class digital services, HPC and secure data management platforms to protect their data and minimise administrative burden.
  • Identify and oversee initiatives to modernise the institution’s digital workspaces, processes, services and infrastructure, ensuring existing and new technologies are fully leveraged.
  • Focus on streamlining administrative and academic processes through automation, data-driven decision-making and the integration of applications.
  • Promote the use of data analytics and business intelligence providing insights for better student engagement, planning, resource allocation and performance monitoring.
  • Oversee cybersecurity policies and programmes to protect the university’s digital assets and ensure compliance with regulatory standards.
  • Ensure that UCD’s digital environment is well-governed, well-architected, sustainable and is a good business and technical fit to underpin UCD's critical business capabilities.
  • Ensure that key success metrics are captured, measured and monitored on each project and programme of work to underline the importance of value based delivery.
  • Make recommendations to the UMT on UCD’s digital campus, enterprise architecture, applications and services and the prioritisation of projects that deliver the most value.
  • Provide oversight of the sustainability dimension of UCD’s digital campus.

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