About This Project

This project is managed by Dr Peter Tiernan from the School of STEM Education, Innovation and Global studies at the Institute of Education, DCU.

The development of this website has been kindly funded by DCU Invent under the ‘Explore’ funding call. The purpose of this call is to provide seed funding for innovative ideas across Dublin City University.

Dublin City University (http://www.dcu.ie) comprises over 17,500 students including over 2600 postgraduate students, of whom c. 800 are research students. Following the incorporation in 2016 of leading colleges of education (St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra; Mater Dei Institute of Education; Church of Ireland College of Education) into the University, the number of DCU staff members increased from 400 to over 650.

The University is now a multi-campus university occupying approximately 60 hectares just north of Dublin City Centre. DCU is Ireland’s most innovative university and fastest growing university, and delivers more than 200 programmes across its five faculties – Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Health, Engineering and Computing, DCU Business School and DCU Institute of Education. Excellence in DCU education and research activities has led to the University being consistently ranked among the top young universities globally, appearing in the 2021 QS Top 70 under 50, and 2020 Times Higher Young University Top 150. Nationally, DCU has been named Sunday Times ‘University of the Year’ three times (2004, 2010, 2021).

Dublin City University aims to transform lives and societies through education, research and innovation. In order to achieve this, DCU has arranged much of its research activities to address major areas of societal and economic needs – health, information technology, sustainability, resilience and education. To ensure that DCU research increases its real-world impact, DCU are focusing on priority areas where it has recognised strengths and where society is facing significant challenges.

These areas are:

        • health technologies, and the healthy society
        • information technology and the digital society
        • advanced manufacturing and materials
        • sustainable economies and societies
        • democratic and secure societies
        • educational research and innovation