Staff Research Profiles

Academic Research Areas and Research Profiles

ICS is one of the most multidisciplinary schools at UCD, representing disciplines, topics and approaches from the humanities, social sciences, and STEM. Unique research areas to UCD include Communications,
Digital Policy, and Information Science, as well as the highly technologically grounded HCI and Information
Systems. The School is uniquely and prestigiously designated as an iSchool, a university-level institution
devoted to understanding the role of information in society; ICS is the only iSchool in the country, as well
as on the whole of the Island.

	(opens in a new window)Assoc Prof Marguerite Barry (Associate Professor) Research Interests Ethics in Human Computer Interaction and AI; Understanding interactivity and designing for digital interaction; Ethics in computing education; Digital communication for health and wellbeing; Positive computing.
	(opens in a new window)Dr Marco Bastos (Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow) Research Interests Algorithmic governance; Computational social science; Critical data studies; Disinformation; Misinformation; Network science; Social media and politics; Social media platforms; Social networks.
	(opens in a new window)Dr Patrick Brodie (Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow) Research Interests Digital infrastructures; Environmental media; Energy transitions; Extractivism; Critical data studies; Media and technology industries; Climate; Digital geographies; Data colonialism; Critical minerals.
	(opens in a new window)Prof Benjamin Cowan (Professor) Research Interests Conversational User Interfaces, Perspective Taking, Speech Interfaces, Human Computer Interaction, Experimental & Cognitive Psychology.
	(opens in a new window)Assoc Prof Amber Cushing (Associate Professor) Research Interests Digital preservation and cultural heritage; Information behaviour; Personal information management
	(opens in a new window)Dr Kevin Doherty (Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow) Research Interests Human-Computer Interaction; Healthcare; Mental Health Technology; Design Research.
	(opens in a new window)Dr Elizabeth Farries (Assistant Professor) Research Interests Data retention and protection; Digital identities; Digital policy; Gendered safety online; Human rights; International intelligence sharing; Law; Pandemic technologies; Policing surveillance technologies; Secure and private online communications; Social justice.
	(opens in a new window)Dr Stefanie Havelka (Assistant Professor) Research Interests Human-computer interaction related to privacy and security in ubiquitous computing; digital literacies (including information and mobile literacy); equity, equality, diversity, accessibility, and inclusion in LIS theory and practice; critical librarianship; metadata in knowledge organisation.
	(opens in a new window)Prof Kylie Jarrett (Professor) Research Interests Digital platforms; creative labour; platform work; digital labour; political economy; social media
	(opens in a new window)Prof Aphra Kerr (Professor) Research Interests Cultural Industries; Digital games; AI Ethics; AI work; Algorithmic Literacy; Platforms; Media Power; Digital Policy
	(opens in a new window)Dr Páraic Kerrigan (Assistant Professor) Research Interests Critical data studies; Gender, sexuality & digital cultures; Equality, diversity & inclusion; Media industries; Technology.
	(opens in a new window)Dr Susan Leavy (Assistant Professor) Research Interests Artificial intelligence ethics; Cultural analytics; Language technology and society; NLP; Trustworthy AI.
	(opens in a new window)Dr Lai Ma (Associate Professor) Research Interest Open research; Scholarly communication; Research evaluation; Research policy; Research infrastructure; Critical information studies.
	(opens in a new window)Dr Claire McGuinness (Assistant Professor) Research Interests Digital and blended learning; Information and digital literacy; Library and information science and practice; Media literacy and information disorder; Professional LIS education and training; Reflective practice.
	(opens in a new window)Prof Kalpana Shankar ((opens in a new window)Professor) Research Interests Research evaluation/research practices; Information infrastructures.
	(opens in a new window)Prof Eugenia Siapera ((opens in a new window)Professor) Research Interests AI; Digital media, platforms, and platform governance; Digital politics and policy; Digital racism and misogyny; Digital systems and social justice; Gender and race; Media, journalism, and democracy
	(opens in a new window)Dr Brendan Spillance (Assistant Professor) Research Interests Credibility, Bias, Misinformation, Disinformation, Mal-information, Human Computer Interaction, Human Judgement of Information, Security, Defence, Geopolitics, News, Journalism, Behavioural Science and Cognitive Psychology.
	(opens in a new window)Dr James Steinhoff (Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow) Research Interests Political economy of digital media, critical AI and data studies, automation, digital labour, data science, virtual reality.
	(opens in a new window)Dr Arjumand Younus (Assistant Professor) Research Interests AI For Social Good, Text Analytics and Natural Language Processing, Computational Social Science; Social Media Analytics