Dr Leah Ridgway

If you want a bit of positive news in a challenging world, I've written an honest and open reflective blog on our @Athena_SWAN Gold Award in the hopes it can help others, because people are the heart of our universities @UoNEngineering 💛🦢

@TFIupdates @dublinbusnews This is more of a query about the medium/long term planning for a really important radial route that a lot of people rely on. Having a couple of buses cancelled sure, cancelling 4 in a row is bad planning

@TFIupdates @dublinbusnews There's been multiple cancelled buses this morning on the N4 heading towards DCU. Same on Tuesday. People are waiting for a long time for ghost buses and then when they do turn up obviously they're full so can't stop. Usually the N4 is a good service!

@dublinbusnews hi, the N4 towards DCU from the city has been incredibly unreliable this week. Is there a reason for it? This is impacting the education of a lot of students!

Great to present at the @AdvanceHE #tlconf24 on how we can support non-specialists engage in an engineering curriculum by using a mix of simulations and practicals to ease the steepness of the learning curve

Absolutely thrilled that our qualitative research paper "Investigating Student Approaches to Rearranging Circuit Diagrams" is available on early access before it's in the next issue of IEEE Transactions on Education ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10577… @DCU @CASTeL_DCU @UniofNottingham

Love this title #tlconf24 @Leah_EEE

We only went and won folks! My team has worked so hard and we've shown not only is an interdisciplinary course between Electronic Engineering and Law & Government possible(!), but it's exactly what we need to make the world a better place

Something fancy to celebrate the end of the year with @DCU @DCUEngineering and multiple @CASTeL_DCU folks here too!

Robots at the ready! Our first year engineers have done a great job @DCUEngineering @DCU

Celebrating #EngineersWeek with @DCUEngineering it's so much harder to talk about yourself than about electronics! My research is all about how we can teach engineering better and hopefully get more engineers through the pipeline @CASTeL_DCU

Hot take of the day: I miss getting to see the start of the next article in the old scans that's below the paper I was actually interested in!

It's 5 years since the golden swan surprise!

It's been a whole year since my last chemo session. The stubbornness skills to keep going with something that's so hard that I learnt during my PhD are remarkably transferable to cancer treatment!

Today I had a good hair day. (I still don't know if I should be embarrassed or proud that multiple students have told me they like my haircut 🤣)

What are the ethics of writing an observational study of "things students say loudly about using AI in their uni work while on the bus to and from uni"?

I learn far more about student views and usage of AI on the bus on the way to and from uni than any training or briefing session!

@5tuartreeves Other than its use is utterly rampant, that there's a rumour going around the students that we can't tell their text is AI written, but that we can tell from their clicking patterns in timed homeworks. Also that a class average dropped 20% when chatGPT was offline for a test

It's a weird amount of relaxing to just talk and be understood. I know that we all adjust and change how we speak over time, but not having to self check to avoid people looking at me weirdly feels like the mental equivalent of putting on your old comfy jeans

This post brought to you by the phrase "give out". Which is used as kind of the opposite of "give in" but it's more when you're complaining about something.