Assoc ProfessorAilish O'Halloran

I am an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (UCD). I am passionate about transnational education (TNE) and in particular the intercultural competence development and global citizenship education opportunities TNE presents. I’ve been engaging transnationally since 2006.

In 2017 I was appointed to my current role, Deputy Provost Beijing Dublin International College (BDIC). I joined UCD in 2014 as the Vice Principal of Teaching and Learning BDIC. BDIC is joint college of UCD and Beijing University of Technology (BJUT), the first joint college of UCD, established in 2012.

Previously (2011-2014), I was a lecturer with the Institute of Technology Tallaght, where I first embarked in transnational education, in joint programmes at Nanjing University of Technology (NJUT).

My PhD research investigated filled elastomers as candidate materials for dielectric elastomer actuators. During my PhD studies I spent over 2 years (2006-2009) researching with peers at the Materials Research Laboratory, University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB).