🧠 Supervision of Postgraduate Research

I have supervised 11+ research candidates across disciplines, guiding innovative work in education, AI, diabetes care, and STEM assessment.

🎓 Current Supervision

📝Lead supervisor PhD (Ontiretse Ishmael) – SRL & NLP in Higher Education (MOCHAS PRTP, €100K).

📝Co supervisor: PhD (Faizan & Faisal Munawar) – AI in Type 1 Diabetes Forecasting (Sligo University Hospital).

📝MSc – Embodied Cognition in Primary Maths.

🎓 Completed Supervision

TU RISE Funded Research (2023) – Thesis Supervision (Ikechukwu Ogbuchi) "Automating Equity: Using Machine Learning to Deliver Personalised Feedback at Scale”

- PhD (Gail Cummins, 2014) – "Health Promotion for childhood education", Completed through a collaborative research programme between IT Sligo and the NUIG Health Promotion Unit. This interdisciplinary project explored the intersection of health policy and educational practice, focusing on early years' settings.

📝MSc (Katherine Love, 2019) – Industry based learning partnership, NIBERT

📝5 additional MSc/M.Ed. projects – incl. WIT, Manchester, IT Sligo.

📝 Supervised across cross-institutional, interdisciplinary projects in learning analytics, TEL, and AI.

🔬 Sample Projects & Impact

📝Transformer models for glucose forecasting – published IEEE IPAS, presented CASI 2023.

📝 Power BI & LMS integration for feedback automation – showcased Paris Ed Conf 2023.

📝 Moodle API for analytics – developed via MSc Learning Analytics research.

📝 Playground Science & Minecraft ATU – student-led outputs leading to Masters pathways.

📈 SL1T Contribution

My supervision record supports future academic leaders, promotes interdisciplinary research culture, and advances ATU's strategic priorities.

I lead national and interdisciplinary research programmes advancing innovation across AI in education, health analytics, and inclusive assessment, securing over €600K in competitive funding.

🏆 Principal Investigator – Funded Projects

- €300K – Learning Analytics for Student Success (TSAF, TU RISE, DAnIEL).

- €100K – MOCHAS NLP for SRL (PhD: Ontiretse Ishmael).

- €100K – AI for Diabetes Care (PhDs: Faizan & Faisal Munawar, Sligo Hospital).

- €59K – REAL Toolkit: AI-enhanced Assessment Design (QQI).

- €30K – Global Play2Learn Academy (HEA PIRATE Fund).

- €40K – Learning Analytics DANIEL (National Forum).

- €15K – CUA Collaboration Bursary.

- €5K – PowerApps for TEL Data Capture (TEL Innovation Grant).

🧠 Research Innovation & Institutional Impact

📝 Created Ireland's first automated reasonable accommodations system using Microsoft Fabric and Banner.

📝 Developed adaptive assessment wizard (AI-enhanced, no-code interface) and a dynamic formula repository integrated into Moodle.

📝 Built Power BI + LMS predictive dashboards for student retention and inclusive feedback.

🌍 International Collaboration & Dissemination

📝 Led cross-national projects in Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria & South Africa (BUAN, Girls in Tech).

📝Disseminated outputs via CASI, ATTD, ICIC, and the DigitalEd Conference.

📚 Peer Review & Policy Leadership

📝 Reviewer for:

📝 International Journal of Teaching & Teacher Education (IJTTE) – EdTech innovations in diverse learning environments.

📝 International Journal of Learning Analytics – AI-enhanced feedback and ethical frameworks.

📝 QQI evaluator & policy contributor; National steering group advisor.