Ten DkIT projects awarded funding under new initiative for Technological Universities sector

Ten student-staff projects from Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) have been awarded funding under the new ‘N-TUTORR—Transforming Learning’ initiative for Ireland’s Technological Universities sector. 

The announcement of the funded projects took place at an event in the Spencer Hotel, Dublin, on 23rd May. Dr Niamh Shaw, who is a writer, award-winning science communicator and educator about space, and who is from Dundalk, Co Louth, gave a keynote speech at the celebration. 

DkIT students Anita Byrne from Dunleer and Clare Carvill from Louth, and Dr Moira Maguire, who is from Dundalk and who is head of teaching and learning at the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at DkIT, are among a team awarded funding for a project.

Their proposal will see them co-create a journal club and workshops for postgraduate research students at DkIT to improve their academic writing and critical thinking. 

The N-TUTORR ‘Students as Partners in Innovation and Change’ funding grants have been awarded to 131 projects across the seven institutions that make up Ireland’s Technological Universities sector, including DkIT. A total of more than €650,000 is being awarded under the programme, with each project receiving up to €5,000 in funding. 

Funded by the European Union—NextGenerationEU, N-TUTORR is coordinated through the Technological Higher Education Association (THEA), with support from the Higher Education Authority (HEA). 

For more information about the ‘N-TUTORR—Transforming Learning’ initiative, go to www.thea.ie/TransformingLearning and follow the official hashtag #NTUTORRFellowships.