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Insight's global footprint got a boost in March with this announcement: Insight part of €9m joint investment in US-Ireland research https://www.insight-centre.org/insight-global-insight-part-of-e9m-joint-investment-in-us-ireland-research/

Insight Global: Insight part of €9m joint investment in US-Ireland research - Insight Insight’s global footprint received a boost earlier this year with the announcement of a joint investment of €9 million through a tripartite research and development partnership between the United States of America (USA), Republic of Ireland (RoI) and Northern Ireland (NI), spanning 16 research ...

We are proud of how Insight members engage nationally & internationally. For today's story, we profile PhD candidate Sweta Malik who is based in the University of Galway . You can read about her work here:

Insight Global: International representation, national standards - meet Sweta Malik - Insight Insight’s people are involved in all sorts of international collaboration and representation. Take Sweta Malik, a PhD candidate in Insight at the University of Galway, for example. This year, she was selected for the International Electrotechnical Commissions YP 2022, representing Ireland. She is ...

For today's story, read about Olugbenga Oti’s work to improve students’ access to mental health support!

Insight Wellbeing: Read about Olugbenga Oti's work to improve students' access to mental health support - Insight Olugbenga Oti is a PhD candidate in Insight@UCC. Her research interests include Digital Mental Health Interventions for Young People in Higher Education, Health and Technology and Machine Learning. Her current research is focused on Improving Access to Mental Health Support for Students in Higher Ed...

We know nutrition apps are popular, but are they useful if you're going on a diet? Have a read of this RTE Brainstorm piece Cathal O'Hara written back in March for today's story.

Insight Wellbeing: We know nutrition apps are popular, but are they useful? - Insight Many people use diet tracking apps when trying to improve their lifestyle, but are they any good? Insight’s Cathal O’Hara wrote a piece in RTE’s Brainstorm last March. In it he argues that nutrition apps have the potential to be a useful support in improving behaviour when it comes to food, bu...

Today's story comes from Professor Jim Duggan who has developed SafePlan, an app that supports people at risk of su***de, which is soon to be be trialed by the HSE. You can read about it here.

Insight Wellbeing: Su***de prevention app, Safeplan, to be trialed - Insight Su***de is a prominent cause of death worldwide, particularly among young people. It occurs throughout the lifespan and was the fourth leading cause of death among 15-19 year–olds globally in 2019.

Big congratulations to our own Eoin Delaney who won the Best Application of AI in a Student Project Award at the AI Ireland Awards this week! Read about it here:

Insight's Eoin Delaney wins 2022 AI Ireland Award - Insight Eoin Delaney, currently a 4th year UCD PhD student in the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics and the VistaMilk SFI Research Centre won the Best Application of AI in a Student Project Award at the recent AI Ireland awards. He won the Award for his research on Explainable AI (XAI), specifi...

20% of people cause up to 95% of further infections.
Great coverage in the Irish Independent of fascinating Insight research by Dr Joe Meagher and Prof Nial Friel .

Covid Ireland: Only 20pc of people with Covid cause up to 95pc of further infections, study finds A small number of Covid-19 super-spreaders are responsible for transmission of the virus to the majority of people who get infected, a new study has revealed.

Today for we are featuring the success that is Insight's Moving Well Being Well project. The initiative was awarded €100k Department of Justice Community Safety Innovation Fund grant. You can read more about it here:

Insight Wellbeing: Moving Well Being Well awarded €100k Department of Justice Community Safety Innovation Fund grant - Insight The Moving Well Being Well project aims to increase physical activity and wellbeing in young children across Ireland. The project has just received a 100k boost to support physical literacy education in socially disadvantaged areas to help prevent anti-social behaviour later in life.

Insight researchers were involved in an EU-funded project which aimed to make linguistic linked open data ready to use to help ensure that no citizens are left out of the digital revolution. Dr John McCrae spoke to the EU research publication CORDIS about it. https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/442461-increasing-the-uptake-of-language-technologies?WT.mc_id=exp

EVENT: Don't miss 'The Science of Better' event with Insight this Thursday Nov 10. This Operations Research Industry Event is supported by Dell Technologies and will happen at the River Lee Hotel, Cork.
Learn more and register here -

Operations Research - 'The Science of Better' workshop for Industry This workshop is kindly supported by Dell Technologies Please note that due to the limited number of places available for this event, Attendance will be limited to those that express their interest to attend early enough. We require your email for the purpose of further correspondence with you about...