TEAM News, Events & Blog

In October, TEAM & MSCA researcher, Pegah Hafiz, joined other #JigsawHeros and undertook a challenge which scaled many heights in order to raise funds for Jigsaw, a mental health support service for young people aged 12 – 25 in Ireland.  Jigsaw is working to create an Ireland where every young person’s mental health is valued and supported. 

In June I attended the SICSA (Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance) PhD Conference, which took place at the modern (and very stylish) campus of Robert Gordon University, in Aberdeen. It’s a yearly event which brings together PhD students from Universities all over Scotland, academics and industry practitioners, for 2 days of workshops, keynote presentations and social events.

I had the opportunity to attend the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI) from 3rd – 6th September in Barcelona, Spain. It was held at Universitat Pompeu Fabra’s Campus Ciutadella, right at the heart of Barcelona.

TEAM ITN researchers and MSCA fellows will offer demonstrations at the 30th European Union contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS) during the 14 - 19 September.  

I’m about 15 months into my PhD but I am also a runner and about 9 weeks away from a marathon. I enjoy that running gives me a release from my academic work but I can also see a lot of similarities between the two pursuits.

Darragh McCashin and Gianluigi Riva attended a two-day satellite event dedicated to the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) community.  This event, held on the 7th & 8th July 2018, saw 200 MSCA fellows gather in Toulouse, France ahead of the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF). 

Recently I had the opportunity to visit in the 9th European Conference on Positive Psychology (ECPP) in Budapest. It was a 4-day event under the motto "Positive Psychology for a Flourishing Europe in Times of Transition" with 729 participants from 66 countries.

In June I visited Open Lab in Newcastle and presented my TEAM project to the research group. Open Lab is a cross-disciplinary research group in interaction design and ubiquitous computing. I met Janis Meissner and Reem Talhouk at prior conferences. As my research fits well with some of their projects, they suggested to visit them in Newcastle.

The Universtiy of Glasgow played host to the TEAM Summer School 2018 which coincided with the TEAM Mid-Term Review Meeting.

TEAM ITN research, Claudette Pretorius, MSCA Fellow at University College Dublin illustrates her project and the issues at hand for young people seeking online mental health information in Ireland.