Prof Lizbeth Goodman (BA, MA, MLitt, PhD, FTRSA) is Chair of Creative Technology Innovation for UCD, and Full Professor of Inclusive Design for Education in the College of Engineering and Architecture (Interdisciplinary Studies). Previously she was Director of Research for Futurelab: the UK's thinktank for the future of Education under chair Lord David Puttnam. She currently leads workpackages on 3 major Horizon/IMI projects, and holds grants with SFI, the IRC, and industry partners, as well as directing studies for the PhD in Inclusive Design and Creative Technology Innovation at UCD. She was appointed to a personal chair in Creative Technology Innovation in 2010 in London, and has been awarded major prizes including Woman of the Decade (WEF 2019), G100 Global Chair for the Care Economy, Disability Inclusion and Supportive Leadership (WEF 2024), Best Woman in Technology, and Best Woman in Academia and the Public Sector (2008 Blackberry Rim Innovation Awards), et al. She founded and directs the Inclusive Design Research Centre of Ireland at UCD, in partnership with SMARTlab clg, SMARTlab national hubs, and the SMARTlab Academy4theFuture with the Women's Economic Forum and UN Women, and in global collaboration with the IDRC of Canada and the Centre for Inclusive Design of Australia, and SMARTlab European and global hubs in the Netherlands, the UK, Sweden, and the USA, Canada, and Australia. She founded the SMARTlab in its first iteration in 1992 in the UK and has developed the award-winning practice-based PhD Programme at the associated MAGIC Multimedia and Games Innovation Centre and Gamelab, funded by the UK Government's innovation programme with NESTA, and BBC support. Lizbeth designed with industry partners and founding collaborators at the Stephen Hawking School, as a prime inclusive innovation and knowledge transfer space in the London docklands, before moving the lab to Dublin in 2010. The IDRC of Ireland at UCD was born of all that foundational work. She currently serves as a Governor of the University of London (Innovation Advisor, Ravensbourne College of Art and Design) and with the European Innovation Council as a 'Super Expert', advising on maintaining standards across the European innovation sector. The new IMAGINALS Project, using novel XR tools to empower humanity to protect this Earth and its future for all people, is her current focus along with the establishment of an all-island and globally connected INCLUDE Centre for Inclusive Engineering, harnessing interdisciplinary knowledge in service of a more inclusive and sustainable society.
Dr Mae is a world-renowned scholar, activist, and visionary thinker and doer. She was the first Woman of Colour to go into interstellar orbit with NASA. She is Principal (Commander) of the 100 Year Starship Project. One of the most notable women of all time, she is an American(opens in a new window)engineer,(opens in a new window)physicia
Born in (opens in a new window)Alabama and raised in (opens in a new window)Chicago, Jemison graduated from (opens in a new window)Stanford University with degrees in (opens in a new window)chemical engineering as well as (opens in a new window)African and (opens in a new window)African-
Jemison left NASA in 1993 and founded a technology research company. She later formed a non-profit educational foundation and through the foundation is the principal of the (opens in a new window)100 Year Starship project funded by (opens in a new window)DARPA. Jemison also wrote several books for children and appeared on television several times, including in (opens in a new window)a 1993 episode of (opens in a new window)Star Trek: The Next Generation. She holds several (opens in a new window)honorary doctorates including the most recent, from UCD in recognition of her work with the IDRC and SMARTlab on the IMAGINALS project (which links to a Team Empathy concept for the 100YearStarship) and has been inducted into the (opens in a new window)National Women's Hall of Fame and the (opens in a new window)International Space Hall of Fame.
Deputy Director: EDI Policy and Practice, Access and Lifelong Learning
Visiting Associate Professor IDRC
Anna, a highly regarded education leader, researcher and author in inclusion practices, is Adjunct Associate Professor and Co-Director at UCD’s Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC). The Centre facilitates and promotes research and scholarship in the domain of Inclusive Design and fosters innovation in education, social inclusion and real-world impact.
Associate Professor Kate Frazer is Director of Faculty Development (September 2023 to 2026). Previous senior academic leadership roles include Programme Director MSc Nursing (Public Health Nursing 2021 to 2023), Head of Subject Public Health and Community Nursing (2018 to 2021), Director of Graduate Research Degrees (2016 to 2021), and NUI Subject External Examiner appointment (2015 to 2018). She is a Registered General Nurse with over 30 years of clinical practice, education and research experience in nursing and health services. Prior to her move to academia, Kate gained extensive experience working in varied healthcare systems in Northern Ireland, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Senior clinical nursing appointments include Clinical Nurse Specialist (Hepatitis C) and Assistant Director of Nursing.
View Profile
Jaime Jones is Associate Professor in Ethnomusicology and Deputy Associate Dean (Undergraduate) in the College of Arts and Humanities at University College Dublin, where she teaches modules on world music, ethnomusicology, Indian music, popular music, music and religion, and film music.
View Profile
Associate Professor and Director of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion for the UCD College of Engineering & Architecture
Samantha L. Martin is an associate professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy at University College Dublin. Her main research and teaching interests lie in Classical antiquity and the phenomenology of landscapes. She is the editor of Food and Architecture: At the Table (Bloomsbury, 2016) and co-editor of the forthcoming volume Mobs & Microbes: Market Halls, Civic Order & Public Health.
My research focuses on the uses of data and information (digital and otherwise) in the social sciences, open data, and data archives, as well more recently work on research evaluation and peer review. I have held funding from the US National Science Foundation, Alfred P Sloan Foundation, Irish Research Council, and Science Foundation Ireland.
View Profile
Dr. Jeb Weisman is an anthropologist specializing in the impact of advanced information technologies on people and culture, as well as a health informaticist. He is the Director of Global Health Informatics at the Arnhold Institute for Global Health and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health & Health System Design at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. All of his work has addressed issues of inclusion and humanization in an increasingly digitized world. Jeb has spent more than 35 years working in the field of applied health information systems (HIS), beginning with the development of the first electronic patient record system for homeless and medically underserved children, families, an immigrant populations.
am a theatre historian and a queer theatre and performance studies scholar whose research examines the intersection of theatre and identity, primarily sexual, gender, national, and race. I am director of the UCD Centre for Canadian Studies. Before returning to graduate school, I taught acting at the Randolph Academy for The Performing Arts in Toronto, and was assistant producer to Sherrie Johnson at da da kamera and the Six Stages Festival, also in Toronto.
View Profile
Abraham Campbell is an Assistant Professor for University College Dublin (UCD) and director of UCD’s VR lab which examines the use of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality to explore practical use cases of VR and AR . He was previously a funded investigator for the CONSUS SFI centre, part of the EU pilot funded AHA – AdHd Augmented project, and previously a co-lead on the SFI STROHAB project to explore the use of VR in stroke rehabilitation. He has been involved in past startups such as MeetingRoom which was granted HSPU status by EI, and a 3D programmer for Freegaming one of Ireland first ever AR startups hosted by the NDRC.
As director of the UCD VR lab, he leads a team of researchers exploring the use of VR/AR in teaching, training, therapy, telepresence, and display technologies.
Full Professor Of Mechanical Engineering
Co-Director BioMed and Materials Engineering
Michael Gilchrist, PhD, DEng, FIMechE, FIEI, FIMMM, FInstP, is Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering. His leadership roles have included 7 years as Head of the UCD School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering (2011-18), and 3 years as VP for Research in UCD's College of Engineering, Mathematical & Physical Sciences (2009-11).