PhD Candidates

	Justin Edwards (he/him) Research Interests: Human-computer interaction, interruptions, multitasking, speech interfaces, proactive agents Thesis Title: Understanding Spoken Interruptions to Inform Design of Proactive Speech Agents Email: justin.edwards@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor(s): Assoc Prof Benjamin Cowan (primary supervisor) and Prof. Julie Berndsen (second supervisor)
	Orla Cooney (she/her) Research interests: Human Computer Interaction, Conversational User Interfaces, Digital Mental Health Thesis Title: Designing Speech Agents to Support Mood Logging Email: orla.cooney@ucdconnect.ie Supervisors: Assoc Prof Benjamin Cowan, Dr. Gavin Doherty (TCD)
	David Carrie (they/them) Research interests: include information behaviour, information literacy, gender identity, equity in library service provision and exploring the diverse lived experiences of those within the LGBTQIA+ community. Thesis Title: The role of information in the formation of gender identity for non-binary and genderqueer people Email: david.carrie@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor(s): Dr. Crystal Fulton and Dr. Claire McGuinness
	Loise Macharia (She/Her) Research Interests: Journalism Practice; Media studies; Political Conflict; Democratic systems; Governance Thesis Title: Constructive News & Conflict:” A study of Media Coverage and Terrorism in Kenya 2020-2022 Email: loise.macharia@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Marguerite Barry
	Xinna Li (She/her) Research Interests: Health Communication, Science Communication, Social Media Thesis Title: Social Media, Information Types and Sources, and the Public Perception and Response to COVID-19 in China Email: xinna.li@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Professor Eugenia Siapera
	Andrea Muzzarelli Research Interests: practice-based approaches to information, informational issues applied to sustainability transition studies, information societies, communities of practice, social sustainability. Thesis Title: Education for Sustainability through Communities of Practice: Information, Meaning, Identity, and the building of a “Learning Alliance” in the Irish Ecovillage of Cloughjordan. E-mail: andrea.muzzarelli@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Lai Ma
	Giulia Osti (she/her)    Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence for GLAMs, Computer Vision, Digital Curation, Heritage Studies, Knowledge Organisation, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Mixed Research Methods, Data Science.   Thesis Title: Customising AI for Digital Curation Work that Utilises Controlled Vocabularies    Email: giulia.osti@ucdconnect.ie  Supervisors: Dr Amber Cushing, UCD and Assoc Prof Suzanne Little (DCU)
	Paola PeÃ±a (Peña) (she/her) Research interests: My research focuses on the communicative mechanisms that people and machines employ during speech interactions and how these can promote more natural conversations. Thesis title: The division of labour in human-machine communication: Exploring the allocation of perspective-taking resources.   Email: paola.pena@ucdconnect.ie Supervisors: Assoc Prof Benjamin Cowan and Dr. Rachel McDonnell
	Otavio Vinhas (he/him; they/them) Research Interests: Misinformation, Fact-checking, Social Media, Dewesternization Thesis Title: When Fact-checking is not WEIRD: Challenges in fact-checking beyond the Western World Email: otavio.vinhas@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr. Marco Bastos
	Yunhan Wu Research Interests: My area of interest is the non-native (L2) speakers’ language production & generation pattern, and the partner model in human-machine dialogue, especially focused on Mandarin Chinese speakers. This mainly focuses on how non-native speakers generate their non-native language when they interact with a speech agent and if there is any difference between L2 human-human interaction. Thesis Title: L2 speaker language production in human-machine dialogue interaction. Email: Yunhan.wu@ucdconnect.ie  Supervisor(s): Assoc. Prof Benjamin Cowan