ProfessorLizbeth Goodman

Full Professor, UCD SMME, College of Engineering & Architecture
Prof Lizbeth Goodman is Chair of Creative Technology Innovation and Full Professor of Inclusive Design for Education at University College Dublin, where she directs the Inclusive Design Research Centre of Ireland at UCD, in partnership with SMARTlab clg and the Academy4theFuture. She is Chair of EDI for SMME and is an Athena Swan programme representative for Engineering & Architecture. Lizbeth founded the SMARTlab in its first iteration in 1992 and has developed the award-winning practice-based PhD Programme through the institute, along with the associated MAGIC Multimedia and Games Innovation Centre and Gamelab, which Lizbeth designed with industry collaborators as a prime knowledge transfer space in the London docklands prior to moving the lab to Dublin in 2010-11. Lizbeth and her teams specialise in developing ground-up technology solutions with and for people of all levels of cognitive and physical ability. in all her work, she applies an inclusive design method to practice-based innovation to transform lives through providing unlimited access to education and tools for creative expression. Prior to joining UCD, Lizbeth was Director of Research for Futurelab Education, working with David Puttnam and the team to establish innovative platforms for the future of education in a context of global change.In 2018 she launched the Academy4theFuture at Davos, and in 2019 she and the team returned to Davos to present the SMARTlab WEF Women awards, delivered to the UNDP summit in October 2020. In 2019 she was named Woman of the Decade by WEF Women. In 2008 she was named Best Woman in Academia and the Public Sphere; and Best Woman in Technology by the Blackberry Rim international awards panel. She was nominated to Chair the Royal Irish Academy's Social Sciences Committee in 2012. She is the author/editor of 14 books and many peer- reviewed papers, has supervised 70 PhDs to successful completion, and is a prolific broadcast presenter on TV, Radio and Online. She is PI and co-PI of several major funded research projects, and an evaluator and judge of numerous research council and EC evaluation panels. She is known as an expert in Digital Inclusion, including learning models for communities at risk. She is an award-winning advocate of community-based ethical learning and teaching models using interactive tools and games to inspire and engage learners of all ages. She specialises in working with people who do not have physical voices (whether due to disability, injury, illiteracy, or other social/political factors), enabling the use of new creative technologies for expression vocally, in writing, and with movement and music.