Research Day

An annual event at NCI where staff and faculty present on the innovative research they've undertaken.

Research Day at NCI allows faculty to present on their recent contributions to academia and industry.

Research Day is an event that takes place every year at NCI. It is a celebration of the work of our staff and faculty and their contribution to academia and industry. It is also an opportunity for us to gather as colleagues, to learn more about the different research interests across the college and develop collaborative connections.

Each year, academics from NCI's Computing, Business, Psychology and Education faculties, as well as members of the Library and ELI teams, present their work to their colleagues.

Below are the abstracts, slides and video presentations from previous Research Day events.

Previous Research Day Events

Research Day 2023

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Presentation & Speaker Information

1	Presentation: Keynote: Bitcoin and its Energy Usage Speaker: Professor David Malone (Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Maynooth University)
2	Presentation: A Virtual Educational Robotics Coding Club Framework to Improve K-6 Students Emotional Engagement in STEM Speaker: Alexandra Alcala (Early Learning Initiative)
3	Presentation: Choreographing for Public Value in Digital Health Speaker: Dr Nicole Gross (School of Business)
4	Presentation: Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours towards schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and autism in Ireland: A population-representative study in 847 participants Speaker: Dr David Mothersill (School of Business – Psychology)
5	Presentation: Being truly my authentic self: American transgender students’ experiences of navigating gender, identity, and personal growth while studying abroad Speaker: Dr Amanda Kracen (School of Business – Psychology)
6	Presentation: Just-in-time Interpretation of an Interpreter Speaker: Jonathan Lambert (Norma Smurfit Library)
7	Presentation: Developer Experience: Towards Improving Productivity through Human Factors Speaker: Dr Abdul Razzaq (School of Computing)
8	Presentation: Keynote: Patient and caregiver experiences of chronic illness: The role of modifiable factors Speakes: Assoc Prof Rebecca Maguire (Department of Psychology, Maynooth University)
9	Presentation: The ProBrain Lab: Research Overview Speaker: Dr Caoimhe Hannigan & Dr Michelle Kelly (School of Business – Psychology)
10	Presentation: Co-production of an early years person-centre care programme in the context of evolving funding opportunities, research, education, practice and policy at national and community level Speaker: Dr Josephine Bleach & Marion Byrne (Early Learning Initiative)
11	Presentation: Multiple View Texture Mapping: A Rendering Approach Designed for Driving Simulation Speaker: Dr William Clifford (School of Computing)
12	Presentation: Tracking the EURO STOXX 50® Speaker: Dr Gaia Barone (School of Business)
13	Presentation: Patterns2KG: JAMS pipeline for modeling music patterns Speaker: Dr Abdul Shahid (School of Computing)

Research Day 2022

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Presentation & Speaker Information

1	Presentation: Keynote: Dense perception for autonomous vehicles Speaker: Prof John McDonald (Department of Computer Science, Maynooth University)
2	Presentation: The influence of the global education reform movement in official education policies in Ireland Speaker: Paula Zimmer De Castro (School of Business)
3	Presentation: Do work placements matter for job quality? The case of economics graduates Speaker: Dr Miguel Flores (School of Business)
4	Presentation: Online learning predictors of mental health in third-level students during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland Speaker: Dr April Hargreaves (School of Business – Psychology)
5	Presentation: Utilising game design to create engaging educational environments Speaker: David Williams (PhD Candidate, School of Computing)
6	Presentation: Irish apprenticeships in financial services: Negotiating gender and navigating social justice Speaker: Jonathan Brittain and Dr Corina Sheerin (CELL – Apprenticeships; School of Business)
7	Presentation: State of Ireland's mental health: Findings from a nationally representative survey Speaker: Dr Roy Fox (School of Business – Psychology)
8	Presentation: A STEM family eLearning framework to increase family engagement in disadvantaged communities Speaker: Kate Darmody (Early Learning Initiative)
9	Presentation: Measuring attitudes towards obesity from a behavioural perspective: Theory and research Speaker: Dr Conor Nolan (School of Business – Psychology)
10	Presentation: Cognitive interventions for people with early-stage dementia in Ireland Speaker: Dr Michelle Kelly (School of Business – Psychology)
11	Presentation: The effect of mindfulness practice on older adults' cognitive function and sleep quality Speaker: Colm Lannon-Boran (PhD Candidate, School of Business – Psychology)
12	Presentation: HALO: Health and loneliness in older adults Speaker: Dr Caoimhe Hannigan (School of Business – Psychology)
13	Presentation: Keynote: Research at the Maynooth University School of Business and opportunities for collaboration Speaker: Assoc Prof Tatiana Andreeva (School of Business, Maynooth University)
14	Presentation: A Machine learning based eye tracking framework to detect Zoom fatigue Speaker: Dr Anu Sahni (School of Computing)
15	Presentation: 3D reconstructed models for driving simulation and testing Speaker: William Clifford (School of Computing)
16	Presentation: An exploratory study: The introduction of an external non-family accountant into the family firm and the impact on institutional logics Speaker: Theresa Mulcahy (School of Business)
17	Presentation: Global pandemic solidarity under constraint: Technology transfer and the failed responsibility of pharmaceutical business Speaker: Dr Nicole Gross (School of Business)
18	Presentation: Early target selection and evidence accumulation is impaired in the left hemifield after right hemisphere stroke Speaker: Dr Ger Loughnane (School of Business)
19	Presentation: Brain charts for the human lifespan Speaker: Dr David Mothersill (School of Business – Psychology)
20	Presentation: The making of zero curves Speaker: Dr Gaia Barone (School of Business)
21	Presentation: I'm finally going to do what I want to do: The re-engagement experiences of `older' mature learners in further education Speaker: Dr Conor Mellon and Karen Ryan (Centre for Education and Lifelong Learning)
22	Presentation: Evaluation of the Parenting365 programme: Supporting children with additional needs living in an area of socio-economic disadvantage Speaker: Holly Dennehy (Early Learning Initiative)
23	Presentation: AFTM: Agent based fault tolerance manager in cloud environment Speaker: Dr Shivani Jaswal (School of Computing)
24	Presentation: An extensible and dynamic service description framework for mobile environments Speaker: Dr Rohit Verma (School of Computing)

Research Day 2021

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Presentation & Speaker Information

1	Presentation: TrainRDM – Open Science and Research Data Management Innovative and Distributed Training Programme Speaker: Timothy Lawless (Norma Smurfit Library) Video: Watch Timothy's presentation.
2	Presentation: Faith in the Workplace: An Exploratory Study of the Experiences in Dublin-based Tech Companies Speaker: Desmond Gibney (School of Business) Video: Watch Desmond's presentation.
3	Presentation: Clinically Validated Integrated Support for Assistive Care and Lifestyle Improvement: The Human Link Speaker: Assoc Prof. Horacio Gonzalez-Velez Video: Watch Horacio's presentation.
4	Presentation: Using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure to Measure Biases in the Areas of Autism, Bullying, and Attractiveness in Employability/Innocence Speaker: Dr Michelle Kelly (School of Business - Psychology) Video: Watch Michelle's presentation.
5	Presentation: Innovation, Resilience and Continuity – The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Early Childhood Practice in Ireland Speaker: Dr Meera Oke, Dr Conor Mellon, Anna Barr, and Dr Natasha O Donnell (Centre for Education and Lifelong Learning) Video: Watch Meera's presentation.
6	Presentation: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviours Towards Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and Autism in Ireland: A Pilot Study Speaker: Dr David Mothersill, Dr Ger Loughnane and Dr April Hargreaves (School of Business Psychology)
7	Presentation: Development of Functionality for Teaching Through Reflection Speaker: Dr Leo Casey and Dr Meera Oke (Centre for Education and Lifelong Learning) Video: Watch Leo's presentation.
8	Presentation: Feature Selection for Machine Learning-based Phishing Websites Detection Speaker: Dr Arghir-Nicolae Moldovan (School of Computing)
9	Presentation: Creating Restorative Communities Speaker: Kate Darmody and Emma Wheatley (Early Learning Initiative) Video: Watch Kate's and Emma's presentation.
10	Presentation: Emotion Regulation Strategies and Stress in Irish College Students and Chinese International College Students in Ireland Speaker: Dr Conor Nolan (School of Business Psychology) Video: Watch Conor's presentation.
11	Presentation: Determinants of Students’ Salaries in the Professional Training Year Speaker: Dr Miguel Flores and Dr Panagiotis Arsenis (University of Surrey School of Business) Video: Watch Miguel's presentation.
12	Presentation: Investigating Active Learning in Interactive Neural Machine Translation Speaker: Dr Rejwanul Haque (School of Computing) Video: Watch Rejwanul's presentation.
13	Presentation: Competing Logics in Family Firms who Engage in the Professionalisation Process by Hiring External Professional Accountants at Management Level Speaker: Theresa Mulcahy (School of Business) Video: Watch Theresa's presentation.

Research Day 2019

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Presentation & Speaker Information

1	Presentation: Beyond Fast and Furious: Smart Approaches to Data-Intensive Parallel Programming Speaker: Assoc Prof. Horacio Gonzalez-Velez (School of Computing)
2	Presentation: Investigating Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Students with ADHD and Anxiety Speaker:Dr Conor Nolan (School of Business - Psychology)
3	Presentation: Government Proposals to Acquire the Liquor Trade in the First World War: The Case of Macardle, Moore and Company, Brewers Speaker: Desmond Gibney (School of Business)
4	Presentation: A Comparison of the Home Learning Environment of Families at Risk of SocioEconomic Disadvantage to National Norms in Ireland Speaker: Dr Gráinne Kent (Early Learning Initiative)
5	Presentation: SPuMoNI: Smart Pharmaceutical MaNufacturIng Speaker: Dr Adriana Chis (School of Computing)
6	Presentation: Robotic Coding Clubs: A Community Action Research Project Speakers: Lana Cummins and Glenn Connell (Early Learning Initiative)
7	Presentation: Branding Abortion: The Influence of Consuming Visual Imagery on Irish Citizens’ Abortion Referendum Experience Speaker: Dr Louise Maguire (School of Business)
8	Presentation: The Impact of Lifestyle Factors on Older Adults’ Brain Health Speaker: Dr Michelle Kelly (School of Business - Psychology)
9	Presentation: Automatic Bootstrapping of OpenFlow in Wireless Ad hoc Networks Speaker: Dr Sachin Sharma (School of Computing)
10	Presentation: Overcoming Resistance: Business Model Innovation Processes in Tech SME Speaker: Dr Nicole Gross (School of Business)
11	Presentation: Analytics-Based Decomposition of a Class of Bilevel Problems Speaker: Dr Ade Fajeminis (School of Computing)