About this Event
Dr Colm Mac Gearailt currently lectures in Marino Institute of Education and for Hibernia College. His research focusses on history education, the Irish language, and state examinations as they pertain to Irish history. He holds a PhD from TCD (2019) and was awarded a Government of Ireland Irish Research Council Postgraduate scholarship in 2017 to complete his doctoral thesis. In 2019 he completed a postdoctoral research placement, as part of a forthcoming biography of Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, under Dr John Walsh. He previously conducted a major translation of the autobiographies of Ernest Blythe, from Irish to English, as a contribution towards the late Prof David Fitzpatrick’s Ernest Blyth: A Double Life (Cork 2018).
TU Dublin partners with Autodesk on new construction education centre
The €22m centre for construction education will be located at TU Dublin in Broombridge.
Software company Autodesk has committed 10 years of support to TU Dublin’s new hub for construction education, with the aim of preparing graduates in Ireland for careers in a “rapidly changing” sector.
The new €22m Centre of Excellence for Construction Education, Research, Enterprise and Innovation will be located at TU Dublin’s campus in Broombridge, Cabra. Construction is due to begin later this year.
Autodesk, which is known for software products such as AutoCAD, is one of several founding partners and investors in the centre. TU Dublin said other partners will be announced soon.