Jennifer Kwan

Dublin City University

DCU is Ireland's university of enterprise, a place of discovery and opportunity, where talent flourishes. Since 1980, DCU has grown in both student numbers and size to just under 17,000 students and 1,800 staff, across three academic campuses. DCU currently delivers more than 200 degree programmes across its five faculties – DCU Institute of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Health, Engineering and Computing and DCU Business School. DCU's research is renowned for its quality and focus on real societal needs, and its enterprise focus is reflected in its strong industry-academic collaborations. DCU's excellence is recognised internationally and it is ranked in Times Higher Education's ‘Top 100 under 50'. DCU is also the only Irish university to be represented in the prestigious European university network, The European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU).