Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Arjumand Younus:

I will add to that, though not from my experience in Women in Research Ireland. I am from a machine learning and data analytics background. I have a lot of experience with the centres of machine learning and so on. One area in which Ireland is lacking is that the humanities disciplines and medicine are not using data analysis as much as they ought to be. That is being done all over the world, such as in the US and even in South Korea. I recently spoke to a researcher from South Korea. It has programmes in political science departments and is hiring data analysts. I do not see much of that in Ireland. This is something that can end the precarity issue. There would be a need to teach people data analytics skills but that is not as difficult as it is made out to be.

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