UCD Centre for Digital Policy

Building digital policy capability amongst the public and private sector across the EU. The Centre's Microsoft-UCD Digital Policy Programme is designed to support government and organisations with the knowledge necessary to amend existing legislation and plan for new legislation that will protect society and provide a framework in which organisations can operate.

Greenwash.ai

Sustainable finance experts from UCD and beyond have created a system to detect greenwashing using cutting-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning tools. Working towards the realisation of UN SDGs 7 (affordable & clean energy), 8 (decent work & economic growth), 9 (industry, innovation & infrastructure), and 13 (climate action), they provide data contrasting corporate green claims and greenhouse gas emission performance.

SOHAM: Sociology of Humans and Machine Lab

UCD lab using behavioural experimentation, agent-based modelling, machine learning and advanced statistics, to reveal complex mechanisms involved in forming and reshaping future societies. SOHAM is generating first-hand evidence to advance knowledge of human-machine systems and inform the emerging policies that will govern such systems. 

UCD Centre for Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Investigation

Europe's leading centre for research, education and training in cybersecurity, cybercrime investigation and digital forensics. The Centre works with law enforcement and industry to help build capacity and develop tools to fight crime.

ARITHMOS

Irish Research Council funded UCD-TU Dublin collaboration, aiming to transform maths education through the engagement of children, teachers, families, and policymakers. The project tests the efficacy of a game-based learning intervention to improve mathematics learning and reduce mathematics anxiety in children.

ARETE: Augmented Reality Interactive Reality Interactive Educational System

Horizon Europe, UCD-led project building a Europe-wide competitive ecosystem to supports fast dissemination of augmented learning content. ARETE focuses on STEM, English literacy skills and positive behaviour intervention. The human-centred project aims to make Europe a world leader of augmented reality and virtual reality in education. 

PRISM

Irish Research Council and UCD Earth Institute supported project using a citizen science approach to help map the impacts of climate change and human activities on coastal communities. The project is developing digital mapping tools to help volunteer citizen scientists record their observations of environmental impacts, and develop new approaches to build resilience.

I-CHANGE

I-CHANGE Dublin Living Lab is part of an international initiative to show how citizen science can drive behavioural change with real impact on individuals' environmental footprint.

Growing Up in Digital Europe (GUIDEPREP)

Horizon Europe, UCD-led project developing the research infrastructure necessary to implement the Growing Up in Digital Europe birth cohort study. Once operational, GUIDE will collect data about individual children growing up in Europe until those children are aged 24-years in approximately 2053.

OPERANDUM

A UCD-led European collaboration examining nature-based approaches which can offer sustainable solutions to cope with climate change and adaptation challenges. 

CeADAR

Ireland’s national centre for applied AI housing the country's only Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) in AI, CeADAR offers a comprehensive service in all aspects of innovation and applied R&D in AI, Machine Learning and Data Analytics. 

UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy

World-class expertise in a wide-ranging set of disciplines across Social Sciences and Law, Health and Agricultural Sciences and Business.

UCD Earth Institute

Fostering multidiscipline research to improve fundamental understanding of our rapidly changing environment and find solutions for a sustainable future.

GUIDE appointed to the ESFRI Roadmap, marking it as a landmark European research infrastructure

#WeAreNotWaiting: tackling diabetes through patient-led research and open-source innovation

Pesky gNATs: Using Technology to Support Mental Health in Young People

Planning for sustainability through Environmental Sensitivity Mapping

Dr Jennifer Symonds

Associate Professor at UCD School of Education, social scientist of child, adolescent, and young adult wellbeing, engagement, and educational transitions, Director of Growing Up in Digital Europe (GUIDE): Europe’s first birth cohort study of child and youth wellbeing, 

Dr Taha Yasseri

Associate Professor at the School of Sociology, specialises in analysis of large-scale transactional data and behavioural experiments to understand machines' social behaviour, online political behaviour, and collective intelligence.

Prof Francesco Pilla

Professor and Chair of Smart and Sustainable Cities at UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, UCD lead on I-CHANGE and OPERANDUM, works to build better cities by empowering local communities with cutting-edge technology.

Elizabeth Farries

Co-director of UCD Centre for Digital Policy. Senior fellow with the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO), research focus on emergent digital policy cycles and assemblages in the 4th revolution. 

Dr Flavia Santos

Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow at UCD School of Psychology, cognitive neuroscientist, founded UCD Music and Math Cognition research group and is PI of ARITHMOS Project.

Prof Gary O'Reilly

Professor of Clinical Psychology at UCD, part time appointment as a Principal Clinical Psychologist at Children's Health Ireland, developing and evaluating child friendly CBT interventions delivered through computer game and App "Pesky Gnats". 

Prof Kalpana Shankar

Professor of Information and Communication Studies, research examines how data and documentation practices and systems reflect and shape the larger society, culture, and institutions where they are enacted. 

Dr Marco T. Bastos

Ad Astra Fellow at UCD School of Information and Communication Studies, PI of Twitter-funded project “The Brexit Value Space and the Geography of Online Echo Chambers”, co-PI of Swiss National Science Foundation-funded project investigating the network structure of disinformation cascades. 

Dr Rachel Farrell

Assistant Professor of Initial Teacher Education, specialises in democratic pedagogical partnerships and expansive learning, effective use of immersive technology in post-primary education and cyber resilience education. 

Dr Stephen Davis

Assistant Professor at UCD School of Archaeology, specialises in remote sensing technology in archaeological prospection, and digital investigation of inaccessible ancient structures through laser scanning and photogrammetry.

Dr Patrick Brody

Ad Astra Fellow at UCD School of Information and Communication Studies, focusing on how spatial and environmental justice are entangled with data infrastructures, energy systems, and the supply chain organisation of global media economies.