TL;DR
Awards & Features: Immerse UK Grand Prize & Jury Prize Award International Design Award Gold, Student Product Category Design Intelligence Award Honourable Mention Irish Designers Institute Graduate Award RSA Student Design Award & Fellowship
Education: MA/MSc Global Innovation Design (2021 - 2023) Imperial College & Royal College of Art. BA Interaction Design (2018 - 2021, 1st Class Hons), NCAD. Dublin, Ireland.
Experience: 11+ years in broadcast television.
PREVIOUSLY
For over a decade, I’ve had a pretty unusual job playing a character in a long-running Irish TV show. As a result, I’ve witnessed the culturally transformative power of representation through storytelling. For my degree project Libera I wanted to explore how we might ensure that ‘work’ works for everyone. I designed for migrant empowerment in my two-time award winning project Granted, and have a solid basic level of coding experience, as evidenced in Good Neighbour and Living Bog Survival Toolkit.
CURRENTLY
Fresh out of a joint MA/MSc in Global Innovation Design at The Royal College of Art & Imperial College London. I’ve spent the last two years researching, experimenting with, and prototyping for near-eye displays, resulting in my three-time award winning project Narrative Realms. During my time in GID, I've been given the opportunity to engage with four vastly different institutions and a diverse variety of collaborators across the globe.
UPCOMING
Designing and executing delightful and reliable interactions in Arup’s eLab, within the Experiential Environments team. Strengthening my technical skills and conceptualising new interactions for future projects.