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Integrating Digital Technology

As digital technologies advance and become more embedded in our lives, critical and engaged social science and business research can help us to understand the impacts and implications, and to design better for the future. Researchers across UCD are demonstrating how these technologies are powerful tools for transforming society.

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At a glance...

€2.5M
Prof Kylie Jarrett awarded a €2.5M ERC Advanced Grant for project on the digital economy gig
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4 UCD College of Social Sciences and Law subject ranked in the top 100 QS World Rankings 2025.
1st
Ireland gained its first New European Bauhaus Award for the UCD-led community climate action project Ripple.
Excellence
UCD's Dublin European Institute was awarded a Jean Monnet grant to become a Centre of Excellence in the New Political Economy of Europe.

Creating Impact

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Headquartered at UCD, Europe’s first cross-national birth cohort study provides policy-makers with comparable cross-national information on the development of children’s wellbeing from birth to age 24-years. Growing up in a digital Europe (GUIDE)
Headquartered at UCD, Europe’s first cross-national birth cohort study provides policy-makers with comparable cross-national information on the development of children’s wellbeing from birth to age 24-years.
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Our sustainable finance experts are using cutting-edge AI and machine learning tools to detect greenwashing and provide data contrasting corporate green claims and greenhouse gas emission performance. Greenwash.ai
Our sustainable finance experts are using cutting-edge AI and machine learning tools to detect greenwashing and provide data contrasting corporate green claims and greenhouse gas emission performance.
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Working with law enforcement and industry to build capacity and develop tools to fight crime, UCD is home to Europe\'s leading centre for research, education and training in cybersecurity, cybercrime and digital forensics. UCD Centre for Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Investigation
Working with law enforcement and industry to build capacity and develop tools to fight crime, UCD is home to Europe's leading centre for research, education and training in cybersecurity, cybercrime and digital forensics.

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