Governance and Leadership

DCU Centre for AI and Digital Futures in Education (AIDE)

The DCU Centre for AI and Digital Futures in Education (AIDE) is guided by a governance structure designed to support research excellence, interdisciplinary collaboration, strategic growth, and societal impact.

The Centre brings together expertise from across education, technology, psychology, data science, languages, policy, and related disciplines to advance research on artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and digital futures in education.

Director

Dr Peter Tiernan

Director, DCU Centre for AI and Digital Futures in Education (AIDE)
Head of School, School of STEM Education, Innovation and Global Studies, DCU Institute of Education

Dr Peter Tiernan provides strategic leadership for the Centre and oversees its research, partnerships, funding development, and engagement activities.

DCU Members

Name	Academic Grade (e.g. Professor, Assistant Prof., Research Fellow etc.)	School
Dr Peter Tiernan	Associate Professor	School of STEM Education, Innovation & Global Studies
Dr Enda Donlon	Associate Professor	School of STEM Education, Innovation & Global Studies
Dr Eamon Costello	Associate Professor	School of STEM Education, Innovation & Global Studies
Dr Amina Charania	Associate Professor	School of STEM Education, Innovation & Global Studies
Dr Hsiao-Ping Hsu	Assistant Professor	School of STEM Education, Innovation & Global Studies
Dr Margaret Farren	Associate Professor	School of STEM Education, Innovation & Global Studies
Dr Yvonne Crotty	Associate Professor	School of STEM Education, Innovation & Global Studies
Dr Denis Moynahan	Assistant Professor	School of STEM Education, Innovation & Global Studies
Dr Margaret Leahy	Associate Professor	School of STEM Education, Innovation & Global Studies
Dr Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin	Associate Professor	School of STEM Education, Innovation & Global Studies
Dr Manuel Fernández López	Assistant Professor	School of STEM Education, Innovation & Global Studies
Mr Mahmoud Hamash	Assistant Professor	School of STEM Education, Innovation & Global Studies
Prof Martin Brown	Professor	School of Policy & Practice
Dr Anne Marie Kavanagh	Assistant Professor	School of Human Development
Dr Sinéad McNally	Associate Professor	School of Language, Literacy & Early Childhood Education
Dr Andrew McCarren	Associate Professor	School of Computing
Dr Hyowon Lee	Assistant Professor	School of Computing
Dr Monica Ward	Associate Professor	School of Computing
Dr Patrick Boylan	Senior Technical Officer	School of Psychology
Dr Aparajita Dey-Plissonneau	Assistant Professor	School of Applied Language & Intercultural Studies
Dr Rob Lowney	Senior Learning Technologist	Teaching Enhancement Unit
Dr Martina Crehan	Head of the Teaching Enhancement Unit at DCU	Teaching Enhancement Unit

Academic Advisory Board

Name	Affiliation
Prof Punya Mishra	Director of Innovative Learning Futures, Arizona State University, USA
Prof Roger Austin	School of Education, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK
Prof Tony Hall	Faculty of Education, University of Galway, Ireland
Prof Markku Turunen	TAUCHI Research Centre, Tampere University, Finland
Prof Luke Carson	Faculty of International Studies, Hiroshima City University, Japan
Prof Sedat Gümüş	Department of Educational Policy and Leadership, Education University of Hong Kong, China
Dr Gareth Young	School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Dr Plamen Miltenoff	Science and Research Institute, University of Economics, Varna, Bulgaria
Dr Luma Tabbaa	Engineering and digital design, University of Kent, UK

Postgraduate & Postdoctoral Members

Dr. Hadjer Taibi