David Gardiner

TU Dublin hosts a thriving research community engaged in designing innovative technological solutions, generating scientific insights, influencing policy makers, and reflecting on and contributing to the creative life of Ireland and abroad. This is aligned with our vision of solving the world’s most pressing problems and championing these issues at local, national, and global level. We actively support research and innovation activity from across the broad spectrum of disciplines pursued across all five TU Dublin faculties. We identify in our R and I strategy a set of five research priorities, aligned to selected SDGs, where we believe that coalescing our efforts in a transdisciplinary manner will focus and amplify the excellence and impact of our work. TU Dublin has a large community of research and innovators working individually and in collaboration on a wide of range of challenging and pressing topics. The set of research priorities set out below have been formulated to focus on areas where we have the greatest capability and reputation for delivering at scale and to enable greater impact by being framed through a transdisciplinary lens to amplify our excellence and impact: • Culture, Innovation, and Inclusivity in a Changing Society • Health and Wellbeing for a Thriving Society • Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Transformation • Sustainable Food Systems and Environmental Protection • Transformative Digital Solutions TU Dublin seeks to “Create a Better World Together” and make lasting contributions to technological, economic, social, and cultural progress and create a positive impact for all. Bearing that in mind, the Sustainable Development Goals were our blueprint for the development of our first Research and Innovation Strategy and establishment our priority areas for the next five years.