Category Archives: PhD & Research Subjects

Tara Baoth Mooney nominated as consultant for UNIDO

Tara Baoth Mooney, SMARTlab’s SMARTfashion and Sustainability Studio Manager/Artist in Residence, has just returned from Bangladesh where she delivered a series of seminars and workshops in sustainable fashion at the Bangladesh University of Textiles. Tara was appointed by the United … Continue reading

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Anita McKeown presents on state-wide creative placemaking initiatives in New Jersey at SPIRES Learning Workshop

On 12-13 February 2013 Anita McKeown, SMARTlab researcher and CATALYST Project Manager, has presented the findings of her three-week research trip at the SPIRES workshop bringing together the learning and findings of SPIRES members and researchers.

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Inclusion in Professor Dew Harrison’s Book ‘Digital Media Technologies for Virtual Artistic Spaces’, released February 2013

SMARTlab’s Anita McKeown’s chapter ‘Virtual Communitas, “Digital Place-Making,” and the Process of “Becoming”’ has been included in Professor Dew Harrison’s forthcoming title. The book brings together a variety of artistic practices in virtual spaces and the interest in variable media … Continue reading

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Human Flashmobs with Dr Gayil Nalls, S4SN, 12 October, New Orleans, USA

PhD graduate Gayil Nalls will be presenting Human Flashmobs: An Evolutionary Construct at the upcoming conference of The Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 11–12 October 2012. Nalls’ research explores a behavioural aspect of living North … Continue reading

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Taey Kim presentations and exhibitions, Bangor and Korea, 7 – 27 September 2012

Taey Kim, a SMARTlab PhD candidate and artist, is an invited speaker at the ‘Cultural Translation and East Asia: Film, Literature and Art’ conference at the University of Bangor, 7–8 September 2012. She will present a paper entitled ‘Live as … Continue reading

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Anita McKeown wins SPIRES award for research trip to Rutgers University

Anita McKeown, the SMARTlab at UCD’s CATALYST Manager, has been awarded one of two international funding awards from SPIRES (Supporting People who Investigate Research Environments & Spaces), to support a three-week research trip to Rutgers University, New Jersey. In addition … Continue reading

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The Illusion of Intelligence short film wins Best Student Video Award at the AAAI 2012 Video Competition

The Illusion of Intelligence, a short film by SMARTlab PhD student Karolina Zawieska with Bart Kevelham, Maher Ben Moussa and Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann has won the Best Student Video Award at the AAAI 2012 Video Competition, held in conjunction with the … Continue reading

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Taey Kim presents on new work in Displacement and Artistic Research, Queen Mary, University of London, 29 June 2012

Taey Kim, SMARTlab PhD Candidate and Artist-Researcher, is invited to present her work at the Conference ‘Displacement, Resistance, Representation: Culture and Power in Contexts of Migrancy’, at Queen Mary University of London on 29 June 2012. She will present her … Continue reading

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RTÉ Science Squad features SMARTlab, airing 7pm, 14 June 2012

Stay tuned for SMARTlab’s debut on RTÉ 1, as The Science Squad takes an entertaining look at some of the exciting and important scientific research that is currently underway in Ireland. Programme 1 – A Sense of Things to Come … Continue reading

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Neuro Hero receives the prestigious Arthur Guinness Fund ‘Start-Up’ award

Dr Aviva Cohen joined SMARTlab as a researcher in 2011. At the time she was focusing on the Research & Hope website.  SMARTlab provided structure and support that helped her to develop this further. It also gave her tools that … Continue reading

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