Latest Insight centre Podcast Episodes
Minisode #10 Dr John McCrae
The Insight Podcast - April 25, 2022 12:00 - 11 minutesDr John McCrae is head of the Unit for Natural Language Processing in NUI Galway. He tells Louise and Gráinne about the challenges and opportunities when working with data and minority languages.
Minisode #10 Dr John McCrae
The Insight Podcast - April 25, 2022 12:00 - 11 minutesDr John McCrae is head of the Unit for Natural Language Processing in NUI Galway. He tells Louise and Gráinne about the challenges and opportunities when working with data and minority languages.
S2. Ep4. Language, art and a barge - it's culture baby!
The Insight Podcast - April 21, 2022 23:00 - 33 minutesLanguage, art and an eco barge feature in episode four as Louise and Gráinne talk to Dr John McCrae about his work at the helm of the Unit for Natural Language Processing in NUI Galway. They also talk to Dr Hilary Murray about her career at the interface between art and neuroscience. Finally the...
Minisode #9: Dr Ankit Verma
The Insight Podcast - March 21, 2022 10:00 - 8 minutesWith the increasing focus on renewable energy sources, and the urgency with which we need to move away from fossil fuels, the idea of solar prospecting is perhaps a less familiar concept than other practices in the area of sustainable energy. Louise and Gráinne spoke to Dr Ankit Verma last year ...
Minisode #8 Niall O Brolcháin
The Insight Podcast - March 01, 2022 11:00 - 10 minutesGráinne and Louise spoke to Niall O Brolcháin about his work on EU project Care Peat in a fascinating discussion that explored the value of our peatlands in the climate crisis.
Minisode #7 Prof Barry Smyth
The Insight Podcast - February 14, 2022 10:00 - 14 minutesProfessor Barry Smyth realised early on in the pandemic that readily available data could be used to tell us more about what was happening. He told Gráinne and Louise all about it.
Minisode #7 Prof Barry Smyth
The Insight Podcast - February 14, 2022 10:00 - 14 minutesProfessor Barry Smyth realised early on in the pandemic that readily available data could be used to tell us more about what was happening. He told Gráinne and Louise all about it.
Minisode #6: Claudette Pretorius on youth mental health online
The Insight Podcast - February 09, 2022 00:00 - 9 minutesDr Claudette Pretorius is a psychologist working in Insight@UCD. She talks to Louise and Gráinne about her research into how teens access mental health services online
Minisode #5: Prof Andrew Parnell on Covid Modelling
The Insight Podcast - February 01, 2022 00:00 - 11 minutesThe best explanation of Covid modelling that you'll ever find. The excellent Professor Andrew Parnell from Insight@Maynooth Uni spoke to Louise and Gráinne last year about his work
S2. Ep3. Cathal's log, Stardate 2021
The Insight Podcast - October 12, 2021 23:00 - 34 minutesIt's a jam packed episode this week with Professor Norma Bargary discussing how we make sense of vast quantities of data and the importance of putting people at the centre of research. Diarmuid Kennedy and Dr Cathal Gurrin talk about The Eternal Memory, a short film (watch here: https://www.yout...
S2. Ep2. From Dublin to the Super Bowl
The Insight Podcast - September 28, 2021 23:00 - 32 minutesWe don't normally do themed episodes but this is one exception. If you have ever been curious about the process of the commercialisation of research, this is the episode for you. Two fascinating interviews. One with CEO of Stimul.ai, Naomh McElhatton who is currently working to make technology t...
S2. Ep1. Tears, tango and an Irish Mammy: The secrets of a successful PhD
The Insight Podcast - September 14, 2021 23:00 - 32 minutesGráinne and Louise talk to Dr Ciara Duignan about Flourish, a student wellbeing module running in DCU and UCD. Is integrating wellbeing into higher level education the shape of things to come. Professor Alan Smeaton talks about the challenges of the blended campus, and the advent of the new norm...
Minisode #4: Professor Griffith Rollefson
The Insight Podcast - June 23, 2021 13:00 - 10 minutesHow can data science be applied to the study of hip hop music? Professor Griffith Rollefson explained all to Gráinne and Louise
Minisode #3: Professor Máire Connolly
The Insight Podcast - June 17, 2021 09:00 - 14 minutesIn the midst of one pandemic, some are already preparing for the next. Professor Máire Connolly spoke to Louise and Gráinne about her work with Professor Jim Duggan and others on Pandem 2, a huge collaborative project dealing with Europe's preparedness for future pandemics.
Minisode #2: Dr Emer Doheny
The Insight Podcast - June 15, 2021 10:00 - 7 minutesDr Emer Doheny spoke to Louise and Gráinne about Breathe into your Phone, a project that aims to help those hospitalised with Covid using the technology they already have in their hands.
Minisode #1: Professor Madeleine Lowery
The Insight Podcast - June 15, 2021 09:00 - 10 minutesGráinne and Louise talk to Professor Madeleine Lowery about her research at the frontier of the effort to combat devastating diseases like Huntington's and Parkinson's.
Ep15. Happy Poddy's Day
The Insight Podcast - March 16, 2021 09:00 - 33 minutesThis is the final episode of The Insight Podcast and it's a goodie. Louise and Gráinne talk to Professor Máire Connolly about her work with Professor Jim Duggan and others on Pandem 2, a huge collaborative project dealing with Europe's preparedness for future pandemics. After that, they speak to...
Ep14. Life on Mars
The Insight Podcast - March 10, 2021 00:00 - 31 minutesIn this episode, Professor Kieran Moran talks about putting manners on the sport of hurling by standardising the sliotar. Dr Ankit Verma talks solar prospecting and how the geomorphology of craters could lend us an insight into life on other planets. Finally, Dr Ciara Duignan tells us about Flou...
Ep13. History repeating
The Insight Podcast - March 03, 2021 00:00 - 32 minutesThis week Gráinne and Louise talk to Dr Georgiana Ifrim of Insight@UCD about her work with Prof Brian Caulfield's group and how healthcare services and authorities are beginning to do a better job of linking in with the research community. Dr Stephen Behan of Insight@DCU tells us about Moving ...
Ep12. Puzzles from Japan
The Insight Podcast - February 24, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutesIn Episode 12 Louise and Gráinne talk to Dr Susan Leavy about her work on trustworthy AI. Dr Helmut Simonis talks Sudoku and constraint programming while Professor Simon Wilson discusses the Research Challenge of Scalability.
Ep11. Shouldn't have called it a cruise.
The Insight Podcast - February 17, 2021 00:00 - 32 minutesOn episode 11, we have Dr Margaret McCaul talking water quality and adventures in research. Dr Lukasz Porwol tells us about the EPE initiative, the virtual reality classroom. Finally, Professor James Gleeson and Professor Nial Friel explain the research challenge, Fundamentals of Data Science a...
Ep10. "The past is unpredictable"
The Insight Podcast - February 10, 2021 00:00 - 33 minutesIn this episode, Professor Andrew Parnell talks to Louise and Gráinne about his Covid 19 research. In that segment, we talk a lot about the Hamilton Institute's Covid Data Dive and some apps, all of which are available here. Insight@DCU PhD candidate Sarah Dillon speaks to us about the RISK stud...
Ep9. Hiveminds
The Insight Podcast - January 27, 2021 00:00 - 29 minutesDr Andrew McCarren is collaborating on a project called UPCOM Understanding and Preventing COVID19 Outbreaks in Meat Processing Plants - Prepared for the Future which received SFI funding in its latest Covid 19 Research and Innovation funding round. He spoke to Gráinne and Louise about the proje...
Ep9. Hiveminds
The Insight Podcast - January 27, 2021 00:00 - 29 minutesDr Andrew McCarren is collaborating on a project called UPCOM Understanding and Preventing COVID19 Outbreaks in Meat Processing Plants - Prepared for the Future which received SFI funding in its latest Covid 19 Research and Innovation funding round. He spoke to Gráinne and Louise about the proje...
Ep8. Data in a time of Covid
The Insight Podcast - January 20, 2021 00:00 - 31 minutesGráinne and Louise talk to Barry Smyth about his analysis of current Covid data and what he thinks it tells us about where we stand. You can find his blog on the subject here. Also on the pod is Charmaine Cruz, a PhD student who is working on an EPA funded project called iHabiMap: habitat mappin...
Ep7. A breath of fresh air
The Insight Podcast - January 13, 2021 00:00 - 31 minutesLouise and Gráinne talk to Insight FI Aoife Morrin about air quality in homes during lockdown. UCD site manager and Brian Caulfield's desert island buddy of choice, Donnacha O'Driscoll talks about managing the challenges of the pandemic and using the moon as a doorway to engaging the public in s...
Ep6. For peat's sake
The Insight Podcast - January 06, 2021 00:00 - 31 minutesIn episode six Louise and Gráinne talk to Niall Ó Brolcháin about the case for rewetting and farming Ireland's peatlands; Prof Eileen Gibney explains how data science can revolutionise food and nutrition research; Prof Tomás Ward and Prof Brian Caulfield talk about Insight's Sensing and Actuatio...
Ep5. The umpire strikes back
The Insight Podcast - December 16, 2020 00:00 - 30 minutesIn episode 5, Louise and Gráinne talk to Insight post-doc and international hockey umpire Dr Alison Keogh. They also chat to Ahmed Jouda who interned at Insight during the summer and who happened to have a story about mapping Lesotho. Finally, they catch up with Insight's Citizen Science project...
Ep4. "We have to deal with kangaroos"
The Insight Podcast - December 09, 2020 00:00 - 30 minutesThis week Louise and Gráinne catch up with Dr Suzanne Little who talks about her research into automated vehicles and the problems of unpredictable people; Long Pham discusses her journalism career and how it relates to her current role, while Professor Brian Caulfied discusses Covid's impact on...
Ep4. "We have to deal with kangaroos"
The Insight Podcast - December 09, 2020 00:00 - 30 minutesThis week Louise and Gráinne catch up with Dr Suzanne Little who talks about her research into automated vehicles and the problems of unpredictable people; Long Pham discusses her journalism career and how it relates to her current role, while Professor Brian Caulfied discusses Covid's impact on...
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