Research Day

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

NCI 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. 

Research Day 2024

NCI's Research Day 2024 was held on campus on June 18th.

To view a full breakdown of speakers and topics on the day, please download the NCI Research Day 2024 Brochure.

Previous Research Day Events

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

Research Day 2024

Agenda and Brochure

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Presentation & Speaker Information

1

Presentation: Developing an Irish Restorative Community — Insights, Lessons, and Theory Contributions

Speaker: Emma Wheatley & Miranda Curry (Early Learning Initiative)

2

Presentation: Delivering on UN Sustainable Development Goals through Community Action Research

Speaker: Dr Josephine Bleach (Early Learning Initiative)

3

Presentation: An Exploratory Study: The Influence of a Professional Non-Family Accountant within a Family Firm and the Impact on Institutional Logics.

Speaker: Theresa Mulcahy (School of Business)

4

Presentation: What’s in a name? Solving a family history puzzle, using archival research while going digital

Speaker: Desmond Gibney (School of Business)

5

Presentation: Mental health contacts and referrals for children and young people with social work involvement: findings from two epidemiological studies

Speaker: Dr Barry Coughlan (Psychology Department)

6

Presentation: Sleep alterations in Parkinson disease

Speaker: Ziba Asadpoordezaki (Psychology Department)

7

Keynote Presentation: Meaningful Consultation with Autistic Students for Inclusive Education from Early Childhood through to University

Speaker: Assoc Prof Sinéad McNally (School of Language, Literacy and Early Childhood Education, DCU Institute of Education, Dublin City University)

8

Presentation: Keynote: Insights on Teacher Professional Identity in Cambodian Schools

Speaker: Prof Leo Casey & Deirdre Tinnelly (Centre for Education and Lifelong Learning)

9

Presentation: Experiential Learning: The Realm of Learning and Connection through ECEC Field Visits

Speaker: Siobhán Canavan & Anna Barr (Centre for Education and Lifelong Learning)

10

Presentation: EngageSLT: From challenge to solution

Speaker: Jane Sheridan, Emre Kavak & Mark Igushkin (School of Computing)

11

Presentation: Honey2Fish - A Hybrid Encryption Approach for Improved Password and Message Security

Speaker: Dr Rohit Verma (School of Computing)

12

Keynote Presentation: Harnessing AI in Optical and Wireless Networks

Speaker: Prof. Marco Ruffini, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, CONNECT and IPIC research centers

13

Presentation: "They'll remember how you made them feel": Are public libraries in Ireland meeting the needs of Irish Travellers?

Speaker: Tamara Malone (Norma Smurfit Library)

14

Presentation: FAIR Versioning of Datasets

Speaker: Dr Alba González–Cebrián, Michael Bradford, Dr Adriana E. Chis & Prof Horacio González–Vélez (Cloud Competency Centre)

15

Presentation: Privacy-Preserving Logistic Regression for Cloud Environments

Speaker: Dr Jorge Mario Cortes Mendoza (Cloud Competency Centre)

16

Presentation: A Q Methodology Study: Exploring Early Childhood Teachers Subjective Views on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in Irish Pre-Primary Schools

Speaker: Siobhán Canavan (Centre for Education and Lifelong Learning)

17

Presentation: Coding Connections: Early Childhood Educators Guiding Computational Thinking with Robotic Play

Speaker: Anna Barr (Centre for Education and Lifelong Learning)

18

Presentation: Examining the relationship between pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) and brain function during social cognition in individuals with schizophrenia and controls: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Speaker: Dr David Mothersill (Psychology Department)

19

Presentation: Keeping the Connection-Stretch Graduate Programme

Speaker: Ramona Mihalka & Nikki Ryan (Early Learning Initiative)

20

Presentation: Findings from the IRC-Funded Study on Examining Factors Influencing the Implementation of Evidence-Based Interventions for People with Dementia in Ireland

Speaker: Dr Caoimhe Hannigan & Dr Michelle Kelly (School of Business – Psychology)

Research Day 2023

Agenda and Brochure

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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

Speaker: 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

Agenda and Brochure

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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

Agenda and Brochure

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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

Agenda and Brochure

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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)