Irish Research Council announces funding for 17 TU Dublin Researchers

Published: 4 Oct, 2022

The Irish Research Council has announced €27m in funding for new research projects under the Irish Research Council’s flagship Government of Ireland programmes, including awards for 17 TU Dublin researchers.

Under the scheme, the awardees will conduct research on a multitude of topics, ranging from a future Irish arts policy, machine translation and social media, to protecting wild bee populations and bioplastics.

Welcoming the announcement, Louise Callinan, Director of the Irish Research Council, said: “The prestigious Government of Ireland awards recognise and fund pioneering research projects, along with addressing new and emerging fields of research that introduce creative and innovative approaches across all disciplines, including the sciences, humanities and the arts.

Funding schemes like the IRC’s Government of Ireland programmes are vitally important to the wider research landscape in Ireland, as they ensure that researchers are supported at an early stage of their career and are given an opportunity to direct their own research.”

Successful TU Dublin awardees

Abdul Aziz Noor

Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Smart Healthcare Applications: Focusing on Healthcare Decisions Support Systems.

Andrea Cleary

Collective Action: The Purpose, Functions and Motivations of Women's Music Collectives In Ireland

Caitriona Nic Philibin

Exploring Ireland's Food Traditions North and South: A Comparative Analysis of the Schools' Collection 1937-38 and the Schools' Scheme 1955-56

Charitha Marcus

Women's Political Identity Construction through Digital Media: with special reference to Irish Female Politicians

Deirbhile Nic, a Bhaird

Affective Communication in Online Social Spaces

 

Deirdre Ring

Towards a methodology for documenting Ireland's visual graphic heritage of vernacular shopfront lettering: A case study of Kilkenny Signwriting

Janet Harbison

The Belfast Harp Orchestra: Music, History and Politics

Javier Arguelles

Bio-inspired optically anisotropic photonic structures for detection of indoor volatile organic compound (VOC) pollutants

John Finnan

Connective Machines – Community Internet Radio as a Tool for the Creation of New Cultural Space

Justynne Joy Fabian

Surface Modification of Titanium Alloys for Biomedical Applications

Luana De Souza Cavalcante Carnaval

Multifunctional Smart Edible Coatings for Sustainable Food Industry Application (SmartEdibleCoat)

 

Renata Pekowska

Phenomenology of the situated museum experience, exemplifying the subjective and multi-sensory aspects of embodied encounters in the context of the digital transformation and the digital media

 

Salome Sunday

Explaining the halt in the decline in adolescent smoking in Ireland within the context of Tobacco Control interventions, and recent developments in relation to e-cigarettes

Samantha Morris

Using heritage interpretation as a tool for social inclusivity in small towns: a Community Based Participatory Research approach

Saoirse Maher

Development of optical sensing technologies for daylight photodynamic therapy (D-PDT)

 

Suzanne McCarthy

Heritage Languages in the Irish Primary School Context: an investigation into teachers' attitudes and pedagogical practice in the area of support for first language maintenance in bilingual pupils

 

Urooj Asgher

Towards Energy Optimized High-Performance Computing: Reducing Energy Cost of Communication on Modern Heterogeneous and Hybrid Computing Platforms

 Read the Irish Research Council announcement here.