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SmartGrass: improving the sustainability of livestock farming

Research team

  • Principal Investigator: Professor Judith Harford, Deputy Head, UCD School of Education
  • Co-PI: Assistant Professor Rachel Farrell, Director of the Professional Master of Education (PME), UCD School of Education
  • Co-PI: Assistant Professor Aoibhínn Ní Shúilleabháin, Assistant Professor, UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics
  • Project Team: Karen Maye, School Placement Lead and Head of PME Outreach Initiatives
  • Project Team: Marelle Rice, PME Tutor and Methods Lecturer


Other contributors

  • The Professional Development Service for Teachers
  • Senior Inspector for STEM with the Department of Education
  • Microsoft Education Ireland
  • Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications
  • The Central Bank of Ireland
  • ShcooVR
  • Wriggle Learning
  • Women in Technology and Science
  • Laois Education Centre
  • Irish Economics Association
  • UCD Access & Lifelong Learning
  • Ubuntu Network
  • Playtown, Tullamore


Participating schools

Laois

  • Portlaoise College
  • Coláiste Íosagáin, Portarlington
  • Presentation Primary School, Portarlington


Offaly

  • Tullamore College
  • Sacred Heart School, Tullamore
  • St. Mary’s Secondary School, Edenderry
  • Oaklands Community College, Edenderry
  • Killina Presentation Secondary School, Rahan
  • St. Colman’s National School, Mucklagh
  • Scoil Mhuire, Tullamore


Dublin

  • St. Paul’s Secondary School, Greenhills
  • St. Tiernan’s, Balally
  • Hartstown Community School
  • St. Brigid's GNS, Cabinteely 
  • Harold's Cross NS
  • St. Patrick's NS, Glencullen
  • John Scottus NS, Ballsbridge


Kilkenny

  • St Brigid's National School, Kells


Meath

  • Scoil Bhríde NS, Kilbride


Funding

  • Science Foundation Ireland
  • Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications
  • Microsoft Education Ireland
  • Wriggle Learning
  • Laois Education Centre
  • Department of Education
  • The Thinkers’ Midwife
  • The Professional Development Service for Teachers

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