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Lisa FlanneryHead of Marketing
As Head of Marketing in the central UCD Marketing and Communications Office, Lisa leads a team of marketers focused on brand and reputation strategy as well as the planning, management and evaluation of multiple national and international integrated marketing campaigns each year. This year, the team are focused on delivering an extensive brand re-set project and providing marketing leadership to the university’s transition to Salesforce CRM for prospective student recruitment, marketing and events.
Founded in 185 Year by John Henry Newman, University College Dublin is one of Europe’s leading research-intensive universities. UCD is Ireland’s largest and most diverse university. It actively promotes university life as a journey of intellectual and personal discovery through its highly innovative and flexible UCD Horizons undergraduate curriculum and is the most popular destination for Irish school-leavers.
The University places great emphasis on the internationalisation of the Irish student experience – preparing all UCD students for future employment and life that crosses borders, boundaries and cultures.
The Latest from University College Dublin
🎥👩🎓✨ Ireland has a new world champion after UCD alumna Lara Gillespie secured gold in the elimination race at the Track World Championship.
The former UCD Ad Astra Academy Elite Sports Scholar and reigning European champion is Ireland's first Track World Champion in more than…
“It’s really special and I’m so proud of my country and our small team here,” said Lara. “It took focus and composure and I maintained my determination and belief throughout.”
One of the toughest challenges in cycling, the UCI elimination race saw 24 competitors begin. Every two…
"Keeping the Hirschfeld 'awake' challenges forces that prefer queer histiories hideen or earased - memory is resitaence."
Many thanks to Páraic Kerrigan for delivering a fantastic Flatley Lecture and for advising our interested graduate students!
From Belfield to World Champion. Congratulations Lara Gillespie 👏👏👏
Great to see our regular soigneur @optimum_dee not far from the action too!
@ucdsportsclubs @ucddublin @ROSNUTRITIONGRP @fbd_ie @SheehyMotors @goapplegreen
🏆 World Champion!
Massive congratulations to Lara Gillespie, who has been crowned UCI Women’s Elimination Race World Champion! 🚴♀️🌍
A proud @ucddublin graduate (Health & Performance Science @ucd_sphpss ) and former @ucdadastracadmy Ad Astra Elite Sports Scholar!
It’s here! The IUA ‘Three Minute Thesis’ competition is on November 19th ⏰ An 80,000-word thesis would take 9 hours to present, their time limit… 3 minutes!
👉 Click here to meet the finalists and register to watch live: https://www.iua.ie/3minutethesis
Delighted to see Ireland's Associate Membership of CERN is now official. This is excellent news for reserach in Ireland and for the School of Physics in @ucddublin where in the process of filling a strategic academic role in this area.
🧑🎓✨ Huge congratulations to UCD Mathematics student Mhyls Salapuddin, a recipient of this year’s prestigious Hamilton Prize, the top honour for undergraduate mathematical students in Ireland.
Mhyls, now in the final year of a BSc in Mathematics at UCD Science, was among nine…
👩🎓✨ Warmest congratulations to Aimee Connolly, founder and CEO of Sculpted by Aimee, who has been recognised for her outstanding business achievements at this year’s UCD Alumni Awards.
👏👏👏 @sculptedbyaimee 👏👏👏
Aimee launched her now internationally recognised beauty…
The beauty entrepreneur was one of nine high-achieving UCD alumni whose outstanding accomplishments were honoured at the 12th annual UCD Alumni Awards earlier this month.
The worthy recipients were:
🔹 UCD Alumni Award in Arts and Humanities: Dr Emily O’Reilly / BA 1979,…
Well Done and Huge Congratulations to Parth Naik @naikparth04 who passed his PhD Viva Voce last Thursday. 👏 Pictured here with supervisor Marcus @BaumannGroupUCD. Thanks to Prof C. Oliver Kappe of Univ of Graz (extern), Paul Evans (intern) and Serena Cussen (chair).
Successful engagement with Irish society onevery level and across every sphere of activity
UCD’s world extends beyond its campus, city and borders. UCD students and worldwide network of 279,000 alumni benefit from a UCD education that enables them to thrive and contribute in an increasingly global community. As the number one ‘university of destination’ for international students coming to Ireland, UCD’s 8,428 international students make up 29% of the student body, while international academics make up 30% of UCD’s faculty.
As Ireland’s Global University we value global research, teaching, exchange, and collaborative programmes. University College Dublin has an extensive global network of partner institutions, comprised of over 400 institutions across more than 89 countries.
UCD has established the first Beijing-based awarding institution and the first Confucius Institute for Ireland. We have a comprehensive network of mobility, study abroad and joint awarding partners across the globe, ensuring opportunities for UCD staff and students to partake in overseas study.
UCD Global seeks to foster and develop links by supporting a variety of University-wide and College-level collaborations.
UCD is a member of several international networks and collaborations within research and education, such as Universitas 21 (U21), Tempus, Erasmus, Erasmus Mundus Action 1 and Action 2. Being a part of international networks and programmes offers exceptional opportunities for student and staff mobility, scholarships as well as research and teaching collaboration. In addition to our network of university partners we have a number of other strategic relationships with government ministries, sponsors and funding bodies.
Mission and vision
- To contribute to the flourishing of Dublin, Ireland, Europe and the world through:
- The excellence and impact of our research and scholarship
- The quality of our graduates
- Our global engagement; providing a supportive community in which every member of the University is enabled to achieve their full potential
Ranked within the top 1% of higher education institutions worldwide
1,611+
PhD Students
€153m
in research grants
Research and innovation are essential drivers of a dynamic economy, an informed society and a vibrant culture. The spectrum of research and innovation at UCD encompasses individual scholars, research groups, start-up companies and large-scale collaborations with industry and other partners. Research is conducted within each of the University’s extensive range of disciplines, and in multidisciplinary research programmes addressing challenges of global scale.
UCD expertise is recognised worldwide, with international accreditations for UCD degrees from the world’s leading professional organisations in Veterinary Medicine, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Regional and Urban Planning, and Engineering.
In 2018/19 UCD researchers secured €153 million in research grants from national and international funding agencies, companies and foundations. Since 2009/10 UCD researchers have secured over €1 billion in such grants. Their research underpins national research and technology institutes and centres. UCD has had nationally-leading success in many of the most prestigious European awards, including European Research Council and Marie Sklodowska-Curie schemes.
Over the last decade UCD researchers have increased their annual number of papers in the international literature by 40% and have authored more than 31,000 papers in total. 54% of the papers were co-authored with researchers from more than 130 countries. These papers are cited by other researchers at a rate that is 71% above the world average.
As Ireland’s leader in innovation, technology transfer and commercialisation, UCD’s commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship recognises the importance of active participation and collaboration to exploit leading-edge research and development outputs. Supports for innovation include NovaUCD – the Centre for New Ventures and Entrepreneurs and NexusUCD – the Industry Partnership Centre. Since 2003 UCD has provided support to over 360 companies and early-stage ventures through the services and supports provided across the university, through NovaUCD, and through business support programmes run and managed by NovaUCD.
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