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Dublin City University (abbreviated as DCU) ( ga, Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath) is a
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based on the
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of
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,
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. Created as the ''
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, Dublin'' in 1975, it enrolled its first students in 1980, and was elevated to university status (along with the NIHE Limerick, now the
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) in September 1989 by
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. In September 2016, DCU completed the process of incorporating four other Dublin-based educational institutions: the
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,
All Hallows College All Hallows College was a college of higher education in Dublin. It was founded in 1842 and was run by the Vincentians from 1892 until 2016. On 23 May 2014, it was announced that it was closing down, due to decreasing student numbers. The sale ...
,
Mater Dei Institute of Education Mater Dei Institute of Education ( ga, Institiúid Oideachais Mater Dei) was a linked college of Dublin City University from 1999 until its closure in 2016, located in Drumcondra, Dublin City, Ireland, near Croke Park, on the site of what was ...
and St Patrick's College. As of 2020, the university has 17,400 students and over 80,000 alumni. In addition the university has around 1,200 online distance education students studying through DCU Connected. There were 1,690 staff in 2019. Notable members of the academic staff include former
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,
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and "thinking" Guru Edward De Bono. Bruton accepted a position as Adjunct Faculty Member in the School of Law and Government in early 2004 and De Bono accepted an adjunct Professorship in the university in mid-2005. The founding president of the institution was Dr
Danny O'Hare Daniel O'Hare, often Danny O'Hare, (born 1942), is an Irish academic and former university leader, best known as the founding leader and first president of Dublin City University, one of two new universities established in Ireland in September 1 ...
, who retired in 1999 after 22 years' service. After a period of administration by an acting president, Professor Albert Pratt, Professor
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was appointed and continued as president for a full ten-year term, which ended in July 2010. Professor
Brian MacCraith Professor Brian Dominic MacCraith (born Dundalk, 1957), is an Irish physicist who was the third president of Dublin City University (DCU) in Ireland. He joined DCU in 1986 and became president in July 2010, for a term of 10 years. After his t ...
was appointed next and was succeeded in 2020 by the current president, Professor
Daire Keogh Daire Kilian Keogh (born July 1964) is an academic historian and third-level educational leader, president of Dublin City University (DCU) since July 2020. Keogh graduated in history, later taking a PhD while working part-time as a school tea ...
.


History

The institution was created in 1975, on an
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basis, and on 18 June that year Liam Mulcahy was made acting director of the institution, and a day later the first governing body met. Danny O'Hare became director in 1977, and presided over the institution, then based at Mount Street in central Dublin, for the next 22 years. It was intended at the early stage that the institution become the unified structure under which the colleges of what later became
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would unite, but by 1978 it became apparent that this would not be the case and instead an independent institution developed with a distinct identity and mission. In 1979, the institution was located on an site from the city centre, just north of Dublin City Council's Albert College Park; the '' Albert College Building'' and the neighbouring President's Residence, are the only significant buildings remaining from before this period. The
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building was the first new building, completed in 1981, along with the adjoining restaurant, and many buildings have been added since, to form an extensive modern university campus. In 1986 the ''International Study Group on Technological Education'' was set up to examine the future of the
National Institute for Higher Education A National Institute for Higher Education (NIHE) ( ga, Foras Náisiúnta um Ard-Oideachas) was a category of higher education institution established in Ireland to provide higher level technical education above the standard of the then establish ...
at Dublin and Limerick, and in its report stated that it should be elevated to university status, with naming: :''...the NIHE Dublin having the title Dublin City University or the University of Leinster.'' Ultimately the title "Dublin City University" was chosen and this was confirmed by the Dublin City University Act of 1989. The early focus of the institution was, in particular, on science and technology, although it has also had from the start a business school. It later developed a presence also in the performing arts and in the humanities. DCU is also famous for its programme of work placement or ''INTRA'' (INtegrated TRAining), which was the first such programme in Ireland. DCU has been providing Irish and foreign adults with flexible access to higher education for over 35 years. In 1982 the National Distance Education Centre was located at DCU and for many years offered programmes in the traditional ‘distance education’ mode of delivery. It changed to Oscail – DCU Online Education in 2004 to reflect the reality that its programmes were increasingly designed with large elements of online support. In 2013, DCU launched the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) with the Open Education Unit as part of the new institute. This Unit manages an increasing number of online courses and degree programmes offered to Irish residents and students around the world through DCU Connected. There was a plan in 2002 to base the headquarters of the Irish Academy for the Performing Arts in DCU, but this was later scrapped.


About


Campuses

The university has five campuses: *The main campus, usually described as being in
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but adjacent to
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and
Ballymun Ballymun () is an outer suburb of Dublin, Ireland, at the northern edge of the Northside, the green-field development of which began in the 1960s to accommodate a housing crisis in inner city areas of Dublin. While the newly built housing was ...
too *Sports campus (St Clare's) *DCU Alpha Innovation campus, Glasnevin *St Patrick's campus in Drumcondra *All Hallows campus, Drumcondra


Main campus

The total area of the main campus is approximately and is bordered by Collins Avenue, Albert College Park, Ballymun Road, Hillside Farm and St. Aidan's School. A further (including Elmhurst House) situated along Griffith Avenue have been acquired. Entrances to the main campus are from Ballymun Road, to the west, and Collins Avenue, to the north.


St Clare's (Sports) campus

There are at the St Clare's campus on the west side of Ballymun Road; this part of the campus also includes the Sports Pavilion.


DCU Alpha Innovation campus

A 10-acre site with 18,000 sq. m. of buildings, north of central Glasnevin, DCU ALPHA is a research-intensive innovation campus dedicated to inspiring the development of future technologies. It is home to 35 companies employing 350 staff who are developing products in connected health, clean energy and
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(IoT) technology.


St Patrick's campus

The grounds, including a sports field at the rear, of the former St Patrick's Teaching Training College in central Drumcondra, north of the
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, form a distinct campus. The majority of DCU Institute of Education activities are located at this campus.


All Hallow's campus

The lands and buildings of the former
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(including
Drumcondra House Drumcondra House is a Georgian house and gardens in Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland which as of 2022 forms part of the DCU All Hallows Campus and formerly part of All Hallows College. It was designed by the architects Sir Edward Lovett Pearce an ...
) on Grace Park Road in residential Drumcondra form another DCU campus. This includes a burial ground. The Church of Ireland Centre, overseeing the religious elements of the fully merged former Church of Ireland College of Education (whose old site was not bought by DCU), is also based at this campus.


Faculties and Schools

DCU Business School Faculty of Engineering & Computing *School of Computing *School of Electronic Engineering *School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences *School of Applied Language & Intercultural Studies (SALIS) *School of Communications *School of Law & Government *School of English *School of History and Geography *School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music *Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge DCU Institute of Education *School of Arts Education & Movement *School of Human Development *School of Inclusive & Special Education *School of Language, Literacy & Early Childhood Education *School of Policy & Practice *School of STEM Education, Innovation & Global Studies Faculty of Science & Health *School of Biotechnology *School of Chemical Sciences *School of Health & Human Performance *School of Mathematical Sciences *School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health *School of Physical Sciences *School of Psychology DCU Connected - Online Education


Facilities

DCU has extensive teaching and research facilities, including television and sound studios, computer laboratories and networking facilities, language and interpreting laboratories, a video-conferencing suite, and print and graphical laboratories. These are in addition to modern research and teaching laboratories in the areas of physics, chemistry, biology and engineering. One of the campus companies, Dublin City University Language Services, sells linguistic services from offices on the main campus. There are substantial sports facilities in the Sports Buildings and on the Sports Campus. The primary arts facility is The Helix performing arts centre. There is an InterFaith Centre located on the campus, a crèche, a medical centre, a Counselling Service, and a Disability Service. There was also a commercial
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Swiftcare Clinic, that closed in 2011. Other social facilities include The Venue (Student Arts Theatre, also known as omega capacity: 1,000), a
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outlet, a "Digital Café", club and society meeting and seminar rooms, two
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cafés, one at the main restaurant (the first in Ireland) and one in the Sports Building, three pool rooms, and a "Glass Room" for band practice. Retail facilities include six restaurants and two bars, a
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shop, pharmacy, barber shop, Students' Union Shop, Bank of Ireland,
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reprographic centre,
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bookshop, and a beauty salon in the sports centre.


Culture and arts

The Centre for Talented Youth and The Helix a purpose-built performance space, which includes Ireland's largest concert hall, the Mahony Hall, are both part of the university. DCU also has a campus radio station called DCUfm. An Arts Committee was established in 1983 and has since acquired more than 300 works of art, including paintings, tapestries and sculptures, for the university. The collection includes works by artists such as
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, Cecil King, Patrick Scott, Michael Warren, Stephen Lawlor,
Brian Bourke Brian Bourke (born 1936 in Dublin) is an Irish people, Irish artist. Life Bourke was born in Dublin in 1936. His parents were Thomas Bourke (Tómas de Búrca) and Eileen (Eibhlín) Bourke (née Somers). Bourke left school early and got a job in ...
,
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, Barrie Cooke and
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.


Entrepreneurship

Dublin City University has a large number of graduate entrepreneurs and these form part of the DCU Alumni Entrepreneur Network which is run by the Alumni Office. Invent, the commercialisation gateway of DCU, is home to the Entrepreneurs' Organisation. It also hosts the Irish arm of the US-based National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship ( NFTE), which helps young people from poorer backgrounds to build skills and unlock creativity. The DCU Ryan Academy, established during the presidency of Ferdinand von Prondzynski and funded by the family of the late entrepreneur Dr
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, promotes entrepreneurship and innovation, delivering short courses on a wide range of topics from Social Enterprise Development to Foresight and Future Trends. As well as for-profit entrepreneurship the academy also works in the area of
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and social enterprise.


Registration and application

Most undergraduates enter DCU through the Irish
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process. The university is also party to an agreement with the Postgraduate Applications Centre in
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.


Corporate identity

The university's current
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dates from 2001 when the new president,
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, decided to rebrand the identity as he considered the previous "three castles" logo to be out of date and not representative of the university's vision as a modern and networked research university.


Rankings

The university was named ''Irish University of the Year 2004-2005'' by the Sunday Times, UK. It was also ranked second in the league table of Irish universities in the same newspaper that year, and fourth in the two subsequent league tables. The university was one of three establishments of higher education in Ireland which are ranked amongst the top 300 universities worldwide by the
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in 2007–2008. The university was named "Irish University of the Year" by the Sunday Times newspaper once again for the 2010–2011 academic year. The university has been named numerous times as one of the world's top 50 universities that are under 50 years old, by the QS World University Rankings list. DCU's QS World University ranking is 391st (jointly) for 2018 and it is ranked in the 51-60 bracket among universities less than 50 years old.


Organisation


Governance

In accordance with legislation, the university is directed by a policy-making statutory Governing Body, whose functions are outlined in the National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin, Act, 1980, amended in the Dublin City University Act, 1989 which raised the institution's status to that of a university and provided for related matters. There are several other important acts concerning the college include the Universities Act, 1997, which allows for the creation of University Statutes. The Governing Body's 31 members are chosen by a wide range of groups and authorities, and include members elected by staff (in various classes) and students (ex-officio based on elections of Students Union officers). Graduates can directly elect one member and one further graduate member is put forward by the Educational Trust.


Chancellors

The university is headed, titularly, by the
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. , the Chancellor of Dublin City University is
Martin McAleese Martin McAleese (born 24 March 1951) is an Irish politician, dentist and accountant who has served as the Chancellor of Dublin City University since August 2011. He served as a Senator from 2011 to 2013, after being Nominated by the Taoiseach ...
(2011-2016, 2016–2021), who was preceded by
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's former
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er and Attorney General,
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(2006-2011). Byrne was in turn preceded by the Hon Ms Justice
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(2001-2006) who in turn was preceded by Dr. Tom Hardiman (-2001).


Academic governance

A statutory Academic Council, with three standing committees, oversees the teaching and research work of the university. The three permanent sub-committees, which replaced a single Standing Committee, are the Education Committee, the University Standards Committee and the Graduate Research Studies Board. There are Faculty and other administrative structures below that, down to Programme Boards for each course. Most academic structures do have student representation.


Academic structure

The academic organisation of the university is arranged into faculties and schools. DCU has recently undergone some reorganisation on the faculty level, with an incorporation process establishing one of Europe's largest Institutes of Education. There are currently five faculties, each headed by an Executive Dean. Below this level are Schools, each with its own Head, and for each degree programme, a Programme Board, with an elected chairperson. Since 2017, academic staff are assigned titles as Assistant Professor (formerly Lecturer), Associate Professor (formerly Senior Lecturer), Professor (formerly Associate Professor) and Full Professor. DCU houses the country's first purpose-built university nursing school. The university was the first University in Ireland to establish a European
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course. DCU has a long history of distance education and offers a number of undergraduate, postgraduate online courses and degree programmes delivered through DCU Connected. It also hosts the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL), which aims to be a world leader at the forefront of designing, implementing and evaluating contemporary models of digital, blended and online learning. The NIDL also manages the design and delivery of a growing suite of free online courses (i.e., MOOCs) through Ireland's Open Learning Academy. DCU is also the location for all professional Actuarial exams in
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. It also has a
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. DCU awards degrees in Business Studies and International Finance and Marketing, Innovation and Technology in
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, Saudi Arabia, in partnership with
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.


Libraries

DCU library is a
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, making it legally entitled to a copy of every book published in
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. It is a member of the IReL (Irish Research E-Library) consortium, allowing staff and students full access to over 100 online academic databases. The John and Aileen O`Reilly Library building on the Glasnevin Campus opened in 2002, replacing a facility in the original NIHE building, with funding from The
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and Atlantic Philanthropies. The building was designed by
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and received the
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Library Design Award. The building also hosts the university's maths learning centre and writing centre. The Cregan library on the Saint Patrick's campus opened in 2015, costing €50 million, replacing previous facilities nearby. The library at All Hallows is, as of 2020, undergoing renewal and expansion, and will also host the Jesuit Library from Milltown Park when complete. In November 2008, DCU Library launched DORAS, an
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, to promote the university's research by providing free online access to DCU's research publications and theses. In 2009, the library received the private papers of
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, a former
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.


Executive management

The
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, currently, Professor
Daire Keogh Daire Kilian Keogh (born July 1964) is an academic historian and third-level educational leader, president of Dublin City University (DCU) since July 2020. Keogh graduated in history, later taking a PhD while working part-time as a school tea ...
, is the "chief officer" of the university, with a role sometimes compared to that of a
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. There is a Deputy President, vice-presidents of Research and Innovation, Academic Affairs and External Affairs, and Executive Deans for each of the five faculties. Non-academic managers are a Chief Operating Officer, a Head of HR and a Head of Finance. There is a Senior Management Team and an Executive (Committee).


Employment law controversies

As with most universities, there has been some controversy and litigation over time. Controversy began over the wording and adoption of new university statutes on suspension and dismissal of staff by the Governing Authority, on the recommendation of the president, as required by the Universities Act 1997. In 2002, the Labour Court recommended that this statute be rewritten and this has been followed by long-running negotiations between the university and the trade union representing staff,
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; In 2008 a vote organised by SIPTU led to a majority (of the admittedly very small number of staff who voted) declaring no confidence in the management of the university in its conduct of these negotiations. In 2002, a Rights Commissioner recommended reinstatement of a tenured lecturer following the university's decision to treat his contract as having been repudiated. An appeal from the Rights Commissioner's recommendation by the university commenced at the Employment Appeals Tribunal in July 2009 and continued in December 2009 and January 2010. During the hearing in 2009 there was significant emphasis on statements made by the lecturer in his blog throughout 2009, which were deemed by the President, Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski, and others to be highly defamatory. In a final decision, the lecturer was refused reinstatement but given modest financial compensation. A second case related to accusations of gender discrimination against a senior female member of academic staff, and was won by the academic on appeal at the Labour Court. Litigation also arose following the purported termination by the university of the appointment of an associate professor in 2006, after he had indicated he was moving to another university, while refusing to confirm the timing of his move. The High Court ruled against DCU on three grounds, and the case was appealed by the university; this led to a 2009 Supreme Court hearing in December 2009, with DCU losing on procedural grounds. The president, Professor von Prondzynski, at the time deferred elections to the university Executive when it involved the candidacy of the purported dismissed academic, commenting that he could not see how the professor could become a member of the Executive advising him, but at the same time he stressed his openness to a range of views.


DCU Educational Trust

The university is supported by a charitable Trust, named the "DCU Educational Trust", the main work of which is in fund-raising. The trust has a donation portal and schemes for regular donation, such as the Annual Fund, which includes facilities for regular donors, and the Leadership Circle which gives recognition to significant regular donors who commit to donating minimum annual amounts. There is also an annual telethon seeking donations from alumni. The trust has an advisory and oversight board, and a small staff, led by a CEO.


Student body

The composition of the student body represents every county on the island of Ireland and over seventy countries worldwide, spread across all six continents. The university has educated students from Australia to Brazil and Japan to Iceland. International students currently make up just over 15% of the full-time student body. The university is strongly committed to international education and internationalising its campus. Apart from a large number of exchanges the university also welcomes international students as part of its Study Abroad Programme and offers programmes jointly with institutions based outside Ireland and is rapidly expanding a wide range of international activities.


Student activities


Clubs and societies

There are more than 140 clubs and societies representing a wide range of interests such as culture, computer games, sport, and academic interests.


Governing Committees

Societies and Clubs receive financial support from a proportion of capitation fees and are governed solely by student committees. The Society Life Committee (SLC) and The Club Life Committee (CLC) governs and drives policy and funding for societies and clubs at DCU. Student facilities for societies are mostly based in the Student Centre, The U, which was opened in September 2018.


Languages

One of the smaller clubs is , with a history of trips abroad and to areas of Ireland. The is for anyone interested in the Irish language.


Drama

DCU's Drama Society hosts many productions for the public every year, including its annual flagship event, the DCU Musical. In 2009, the musical ''
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'', was nominated for the Best Overall Show award, and the Best Director award with the Association of Irish Musical Societies. DCU Drama reprised RENT at Dublin's Olympia Theatre. from 15 to 20 June 2009. DCU Drama also sends plays to be adjudicated for the Irish Student Drama Association awards. DCU Drama won the Best National College Society award at the Board of Irish College Societies awards in 2002, 2003 and 2008, and was nominated for Best Society Event nationwide for ''The Full Monty'' in 2007 and ''Rent'' in 2009. DCU Drama won Best Society at DCU in 2017 and most recently performed the musical ''Sweeney Tod''d in Spring of 2018.


Music

As one of DCU's biggest and most active societies, Music Society organises lessons, workshops, concerts, open mic nights, trips to concerts, weekends away, an intervarsity Battle of the Bands and a myriad of other events every year. The Battle of the Bands is its main event, with participants coming from colleges nationwide. The 2010 Battle of the Bands took place on 29 March in DCU. Music Society won the award for Best Society in DCU in 2007.


Politics

Ireland's major political parties are represented on campus. In the 2012–2013 academic year, the
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party was the largest political party on campus and was chaired by Ruadhrí Moran. The Labour Party, who were traditionally the largest on-campus, have fallen into second place, with the
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party, chaired by Ryan Hunt in third with a drop in 30% of membership.


Media


Radio

DCUfm is a student-run radio station. The station airs regular programmes from 10:00am until midnight each weekday, every week during both semesters. It streams its output from their website, DCUfm.com. Its programmes cover arts, music, news, sport, and the
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. Automated music completes its overnight and weekend schedule. DCUfm is a project of the Media Production Society (MPS) at DCU, which was judged Ireland's best college society at the BICS Awards in 2011. The society also won the national 'most improved society' prize and the 'best online presence' award at the BICS in 2010 and 2012 respectively. MPS won the title of DCU's best society at the 2011 and 2013 DCU Society Awards and won DCU's best society event in 2014 with the 24 Hour Broadcast. The station is staffed by over 240 volunteers. Every year, DCUfm takes in up to 120 new members and provides them with training, guidance and support in teaching them how to work in radio. The station uses the industry-standard
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suite of on-air radio automation software, which is also used by the major national commercial radio stations. DCUfm has achieved national recognition for its news and sport output. Its flagship shows are ''Newswire'' and ''Action Replay'', while additional programming is introduced for special events such as national budgets, or DCU SU and Dáil elections. Its interviews with former
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, in which he insisted his economic management was largely correct, and
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leader
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were among those to receive national coverage. ''Newswire'' won the National Student Media Award for best news and current affairs radio programme for the fourth year in a row in April 2013. ''Action Replay'' was crowned best arts and features show at the 2011 awards. The station won two awards in 2010, four in 2011 (including two for DCUfm.com), four in 2012, and two in 2013. The station has been successful at the annual DCU Hybrid Awards, and the DCUfm website also won the national college society website of the year prize at the national Board of Irish College Societies Awards (BICS) in 2010.


Television

DCUtv is also operated by DCU's Media Production Society (MPS). It produces videos and programmes which are available online through the MPS
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channel. Its content often goes viral in Ireland and as a result has been promoted by some of the country's major websites and news outlets. DCUtv's major annual event is its live 24-hour telethon, which has raised as much as €5,000 for charity in one year. DCU is the first university in Ireland to produce a feature-length film. The film, named ''Six Semesters'', was funded by the university and made entirely by MPS members.


Publications

There are several publications distributed throughout the university, and below are current and past examples: * Campus (defunct)- Official DCUSU Magazine. *
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– Student Newspaper * Flashback - An end of semester review magazine for DCU, St. Patrick's and Mater Dei * The Look - A fashion supplement included with The College View * An Tarbh (defunct) – DCU student union weekly news and views magazine. * The Bullsheet (defunct) - DCU journalism students news and satirical newspaper * DCU Book Society anthology - A yearly collection of short stories and poems by DCU students * Flux There is also a magazine for staff and alumni: * DCU TIMES - University magazine


Facilities


Accommodation

The university has built several modern apartments and residences. Larkfield Apartments have 128 units, each with two study bedrooms and a shared living, kitchen and dining area within each unit. The Postgraduate Residences have 37 apartments, each with two, three or four en-suite bedrooms. The Hampstead Apartments consist of 61 units, each with three or five en-suite bedrooms and a shared living, kitchen and dining area. The College Park Apartments consist of 93 units, each with four or five en-suite bedrooms and a shared living, kitchen and dining area. All Hallows is situated in Drumcondra village within reach of the Glasnevin and St. Patrick's campuses. There are 63 bedrooms available in Purcell House to students. Accommodation is in single or double bedrooms (single occupancy only) with either ensuite or shared bathroom facilities. Each bedroom has a study area and fixed-line internet access (internet cable not provided). There is a communal kitchen and shared lounge areas.


Sport

Sports facilities on the campus include a sports complex and fitness centre which incorporates: an aerobics studio, spinning studio, quiet studio, four sports halls, two squash courts, a glass-backed Gaelic handball/
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court, a gallery that accommodates table tennis and a body conditioning arena, a floodlit astroturf
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pitch and seven grass pitches for a variety of sports, eight enclosed five-a-side AstroTurf soccer pitches, an indoor climbing wall, a four-lane 75-metre indoor sprint track and a gym. per week. The sports complex opened in January 2005. The main sports hall can be divided into three full size volleyball, badminton or basketball courts. The facilities at St. Clare's Sports Ground include the Sports Pavilion, two GAA pitches, two soccer pitches, one rugby pitch and one floodlit astroturf pitch for hockey or soccer. There are ten tennis courts at the National Tennis Training Centre in Albert College Park (four indoor acrylic courts, three outdoor hardcourts and three outdoor clay courts) and a further five tennis courts are situated at Glasnevin Lawn Tennis Club adjacent to St. Clare's Sports Grounds. There is also a GAA pitch, a grass athletics track and four or six soccer pitches (depending on configuration) in the Albert College Park. The DCU Sports Academy was launched in November 2006. Membership of the Sports Academy entitles those selected to special scholarships and supports worth up to €10,000 each including on-campus accommodation, financial support towards college books and tuition fees, personal tuition, access to key national and international competitions, physiotherapy and massage, sports nutrition advice and high performance education talks and workshops. The complex won the "Sports centre of the Year Award" in 2009.


Other

There are three licensed premises on the campus, which sell alcohol and food; the "old bar", the "nu bar" (aka beta , The Helix and Spar (off-licence). However, in early 2007 Spar stopped selling any alcoholic products indefinitely, and it remains to be seen whether or not they will renew their licence in the future. Prior to this, there were four licensed premises, but this itself followed a long period with only one licensed location, and up until 1992, there were no such premises on campus at all. There are several restaurants and cafes; the Main Restaurant and the first Starbucks café (in Ireland) are located in the Pavilion building. Zero-1 is located in the basement of the O`Reilly Library. The Invent Centre, The Helix, Nursing School and Business School each have their own restaurants. The 1838 Club is a restaurant for academic staff and postgraduate research students, it is located in the Albert College Building. There is a second Starbucks in the Sports Complex, the third in Ireland after
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Ireland. There is also a digital cafe and Xbox gaming arena above the main restaurant, The Mezzanine. In 2009 the Mezzanine was in the process of relocation to the seminar room in DCU's student centre 'The Hub' DCU Language Services offers English Language Training to a large number of international students each year. DCU LS also offers professional translation services in over 70 languages in addition to language assessments for recruitment, proofreading and transcription services. DCU LS is an IELTS exam centre. DCU has recently acquired additional lands adjacent to its main campus, which will be developed to add onto the university's sports facilities. In 2008, DCU planned to build a 10,000 seat indoor stadium and running track at its Sports Grounds.


Strategy

Shortly after the appointment in 2000 of the then new president, Ferdinand von Prondzynski, DCU adopted what was described as a highly innovative strategic plan, 'Leading Change'. For a university strategy, it was a very short document, but it set out a number of major developments and innovations. Chief amongst these was the adoption of academic strategic 'Themes', which were to govern the development of the university. Each Theme was to have a 'Theme Leader'. The academic Themes are interdisciplinary and focus on areas in which DCU has growing leadership. This strategic framework was extended in the 2005 strategic plan, 'Leadership through Foresight', in which DCU also committed itself to eight key clusters of actions to develop its leading role in its chosen priority areas. Following an announcement by the
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in August 2007, DCU received over €23m in research funding under Phase 2 of
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Cycle 4. Following an announcement by the
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in November 2007, DCU received over €16.8m in research funding for localisation research for a €30.4m "Next Generation Localisation" project headed by Prof. Josef Van Genabith (with international and domestic industry partners contributing the remaining €13.6m).


Research

Coordinated by the Office of the Vice President for Research, there are three constituent units which support the research of academics, research students and collaborative partners: Research Support Services, Graduate School, and DCU.


Collaboration and academic associations

Under its strategic plan, 'Leadership through Foresight' (2005), DCU committed itself to collaboration with national and international organisations and universities on technology and research projects. The AIC Adaptive Information Cluster with
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is one such initiative been based on computer and sensor technology to develop advanced applications in several areas. DCU and UCD also collaborate on a health research board funded programme of nursing decision making in Ireland, the first research programme in nursing in Ireland. The two universities also collaborate on the Odysseus undergraduate Computer Science Internship Programme and on the Clarity Centre for Sensor Web Technologies. The Centre for Innovation and Structural Change with National University of Ireland, Galway and University College Dublin is an initiative to better utilise and develop international level research. Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre with the
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,
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and
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is a partnership to bring together and focus software engineering in Ireland. The university also collaborates with National University of Ireland, Galway and the pharmaceutical multinational
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on biopharmaceutical research. The National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology at DCU and Wyeth Pharmaceutical have recently announced a research collaboration in the production of biopharmaceuticals. DCU also collaborates with the National Institute for Bioprocessing, Research and Training (NIBRT) its main partners are UCD, TCD and Sligo IT. The university has a strategic alliance with Cornell University's Nanobiotechnology Centre (NBTC). The National Centre for Sensor Research collaborates with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland on Biomedical Diagnostics research. The NCSR also collaborates with
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, National University of Ireland, Galway,
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, Australia, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta and the Irish Marine Institute. DCU is also collaborating with Trinity College, Dublin and University College Dublin to run the National Digital Research Centre. Plasma and Vacuum Technology with Queen's University Belfast is a Northern Ireland, cross-border programme to deliver online courses in Plasma (physics), plasma and vacuum technology without attending university-based lectures. Another cross-border initiative DCU is working with is the Centre for Cross Border Studies which researches and develops cooperation across the Irish border in education, training, health, business, public administration, communications, agriculture and the environment. The Programme for Research on Grid-enabled Computational Physics of Natural Phenomena is a wide partnership with Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway, University College Dublin, HEAnet, Met Éireann, Armagh Observatory and Grid Ireland. Development of research under the PRTLI Cycle 1 funded Institute for Advanced Materials Science, additional funding is now being sought to further research in the area of nanomaterials and nanotechnology with Trinity College, Dublin. The university also collaborates with the Centre for Telecommunications Value-Chain-Driven Research (CTVR) and with Bell Labs Research Ireland (BLRI). The National Centre for Sensor Research also collaborates with the Irish National Botanic Gardens, National Botanic Gardens on the Eco-Sensor Network project. DCU is also a participant in the Irish Centre for High-End Computing. DCU leads Ireland in fusion power research, with a team of 33 DCU scientists taking part in a €10 billion global collaboration to make a breakthrough creating safe nuclear energy by fusion. The experimental ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) power station will be built at Cadarache in the South of France and is the result of an international collaboration involving the European Union (represented by EURATOM), Japan, China, India, the Republic of Korea, Russia and the United States. Dublin City University is the lead partner in this Irish research through Irish Fusion Association under the National Centre for Plasma Science and Technology with 10 more University College Cork scientists taking part in the project as well under the auspices of Association Euratom DCU, which was established in 1996. The Association's annual budget is about €2.5 million with 30 percent of this funded directly by the European Commission. Further funding is provided by DCU and
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. The university also has agreements with organisations and universities outside Ireland. For instance, the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, University at Buffalo is a partnership to develop research in the east United States. is a continuing project with the University of Wales, Lampeter to develop an
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terminology database online. The Catholic University of Lublin has a partnership with the university to deliver and accredit a Master of Business Administration in Poland. The university collaborates with universities in eleven European countries for the AIM - Adequate Information Management in Europe (research project), AIM media project. DCU has recently announced an alliance with Arizona State University. The two universities will develop links in a number of areas, including joint research projects, joint entrepreneurial initiatives, institutional learning projects and benchmarking of internal operations, as well as inter-institutional faculty, student and staff transfers between the universities. The School of Computing collaborates on research with large multinational corporations and institutions like Google,
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, the US Military, IBM, Samsung and
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. There is also an annual prize sponsored by Ericsson for the leading final year Electronic Engineering project. Research centres in DCU also collaborate with each other on multidisciplinary projects. For example, the Materials Processing Research Centre collaborates with the Vascular Health Research Centre on research aimed at producing synthetic bone and soft tissue such as arteries. The university also hosts many public events such as monthly lectures in the areas of physics and astronomy in collaboration with Astronomy Ireland, held in "The Venue" complex in The Hub (DCU Student Centre), Irish Inventor Association seminars held at the Invent Centre, the Gay Rugby World Cup and even an exhibition of rare 2500-year-old Shakyamuni Buddha relics at the University Interfaith Centre. Hospitals linked with DCU for teaching and research purposes include: * Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Beaumont Hospital * Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin * St. Vincent's Hospital, Fairview * St. James's Hospital, Blanchardstown * Temple Street Children's University Hospital * Bon Secours Hospital, Glasnevin * St. Ita's Hospital, St. Ita's Hospital, Portrane * St. Joseph's Hospital, Clonsilla


See also

* List of Dublin City University people * List of universities in the Republic of Ireland * Education in the Republic of Ireland


References


External links


Official website - Dublin City University

President's Reports



DCU Postgraduate Students Website
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