Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed)
Professor Lisa Looney:
On interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary, particularly with STEM as the starting point, that intersection with other areas will be important. There is much working going on in that across the universities. The human capital initiative, HCI, has been instrumental in that. Looking at the prospectus of DCU, which is the university I know best, we have HCI-funded programmes in psychology, with disruptive technologies, and in chemistry, with AI. We have a degree in global challenges, which is led out from our school of law and government working with our electronic engineers.