Catherine Deegan
Lecturer
Email: Catherine.Deegan@TUDublin.ie
Dr Catherine Deegan has a primary degree and PhD in Applied Physics from Dublin City University, as well as a Postgrad Diploma in Clinical Engineering from Trinity College Dublin. She worked as a Biomedical engineer at St James Hospital, as well as previously holding teaching positions in DCU, TCD and Maynooth University. Catherine has worked at TU Dublin since 2000 and is currently an Assistant Head of School in Electrical and Electronic Engineering with management responsibilities in teaching, programme development, staff development, and research. In 2016-17, Catherine was seconded to Ireland’s National Forum for Teaching and Learning as the project manager to lead a review of the digital capacity in Irish higher education. She is also engaged in pedagogical and practice research and has recently completed an MA in Higher Education on the impact of assistive technology on Irish higher education practice. She was shortlisted for AHEAD Ireland's national Universal Design for Teaching and Learning in 2020 for her work in using universal design for learning in teaching research methods to undergraduates. Catherine co-leads the TU Dublin Assistive Technology Community of Practice, funded by the National-Forum and IMPACT, as well as the TU Dublin EDI fund. Additional applied research interests incorporate various sensor integration applications including, sensor fusion, image processing biometrics, biomechanics and associated wearable technology. She has supervised several Masters and PhD students and has led a successful commercialisation venture that led to technology transfer licencing and a successful spin-out company in 2012.
Research/Practice Interests: Universal Design for Learning, Learner Diversity, Technology Enhanced Learning, Assistive technology in Higher Education, Learners and teachers with diverse needs,