DrKaren McGrath

Dr Karen McGrath is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Agricultural Extension and Innovation at the School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin. Karen completed a BAgrSc in Animal and Crop Production and a MAgrSc in Agricultural Extension and Innovation before completing her PhD, all at UCD. Her PhD research applied a social science lens to explore digital agriculture and technology adoption by farmers. It focused on the impacts of digitalisation on farming and demonstrated how co-design approaches can be utilised to create effective and user-centric digital innovations. 

Karen is a member of the Knowledge Exchange in Agriculture Group within the School of Agriculture and Food Science. She contributes to teaching on the Masters in Agricultural Extension and Innovation Programmes, and supervises undergraduate and postgraduate minor theses.