The partnership between the ALL Institute and Microsoft DreamSpace received high praise yesterday when they received the RIA 2020 US-Ireland Research Innovation Award for Innovation in Talent Development.
In 2018 Microsoft and the ALL Institute embarked on a research partnership which examined the impact of the DreamSpace 21CLD education activity- led by Dr Katriona O’Sullivan.
The research has paved the way for a stronger evidence base assessing the overall impacts of DreamSpace for students, teachers, and broader society, thus allowing DreamSpace to use evidence-based activities to increase STEM participation.
Microsoft Ireland’s DreamSpace is an immersive, research-based STEM experience for students to enhance their STEM skills, develop their understanding of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) concepts, promote an understanding of the technology sector career pathways, and support and inform classroom curriculum development. By creating and delivering authentic and experiential learning experiences, focused on teachers and students, the project is supporting the wider Government STEM strategy 2024.
The US-Ireland Research Innovation Awards which are now in their sixth year, are a joint initiative between the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) and the American Chamber of Commerce, to recognise excellence in research innovation, creation and invention by an organisation, as a result of US FDI in Ireland. This year marked the first year of the Innovation in Talent Development category.
The ALL Institution looks forward to the coming years, where this partnership will go from strength to strength
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ALL Member, Dr. John Owuor, Presenting at Conference, Athens, Greece
5th IASSIDD Europe Congress Diversity & Belonging: Celebrating Difference
Date: Wednesday, 18 July 2018
ALL Member Fleur Boot Facilitates CRE Programme on Intellectual Disability and Assistive technology
Bengaluru, India
Date: Saturday, 14 July 2018
Dr. Unai Diaz-Orueta Gives Workshop at the University of Deusto, Bilbao Invited by Basque-Navarrese Society of Neuropsychology
"Neuropsychological Assessment of Older People: the relevance of a process-based approach"
Date: Wednesday, 11 July 2018
New Article: Fleur Boot, John Owuor and Mac MacLachlan, ALL Members publish in Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
Access to assistive technology for people with intellectual disabilities: a systematic review to identify barriers and facilitators
Date: Tuesday, 10 July 2018
ALL Member Dr. Unai Diaz-Orueta Invited Speaker at the Summer Course series in the University of the Basque Country
Topic: "Cognitive ageing: current and future challenge (in collaboration with the clinical neuropsychologists Dr. Iban Onandia (University of the Basque Country) and Mr. Javier Oltra-Cucarella (University of Alicante).
Date: Monday, 09 July 2018
New Article Published: ALL Director Mac MacLachlan in Disability and Rehabilitation
"The perceived needs-access gap for health services among persons with disabilities in a rural area within South Africa"
Date: Friday, 29 June 2018
ALL Institute Director Mac MacLachlan presents a paper at Tokyo University
Symposium on Older People and Assistive Technology, referencing recent publications on Assistive Technology Policy and Systems Thinking for Assistive Technology
Date: Thursday, 28 June 2018
ALL Director, Mac MacLachlan at the National Rehabilitation Centre for Persons with Disability, Japan
ALL Institute Director, Mac MacLachlan and Prof Eilish McAuliffe (UCD) visited Takenobu Inoue, Director of the Dept of Assistive Technology, at the National Rehabilitation Centre for Persons with Disability, in Saitama, Japan; with whom they are working on a joint project.
Date: Wednesday, 27 June 2018
ALL Director, Prof. Mac MacLachlan in Japan
ALL Director Mac MacLachlan visits WHO Centre for Health Development, Kobe, Japan, to discuss research and development issues related to Assistive Technology.
Date: Tuesday, 26 June 2018
ALL Member Dr. Ana Maria Sanchez Rodriguez has Book Chapter Published
Rodríguez, A. M. S. (2018). Contesting Neoliberalism: Bringing in Economic and Social Rights to End Violence against Women in Mexico. In G. MacNaughton & D. F. Frey (Eds.), Economic and Social Rights in a Neoliberal World (pp. 173): Cambridge University Press.
Date: Tuesday, 26 June 2018