Biography
Co-Principal Investigator, Lero the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (www.lero.ie), funded by Science Foundation Ireland (www.sfi.ie), leading the Process Quality Research Group.
Member, Health Research Institute (https://www.ul.ie/research/hri), University of Limerick
Member, Ageing Research Centre, Univerity of Limerick
Chair, Equality and Human Rights Sub-Committee of UL's Executive Committee
Associate Professor within the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Limerick.
Science Foundation Ireland Industry Research Fellow, with HomeSafe Care (http://homesafe.ie/) 2014-2017
PhD (1999) in Software Engineering.
Topics of Interest:Software Processes, Software Process Improvement, Software Quality in specific environments:Global Software Engineering;Connected Health;Medical Device Industry;Services Development;Small to Medium Sized Enterprises.Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).Other Interests:
Athena SWAN: Member of National, University of Limerick and Faculty of Science & Engineering Steering committees. Member of CSIS/Lero committee.
Irish Water Safety (www.iws.ie)
Crinniú, University of Limerick's staff Traditional Music Group (http://www.ul.ie/cruinniu/) ;Sports particularly Ladies' Gaelic Football, Camogie, Gaelic Football and Hurling;Community events (www.murroe.net);Singing, Skiing
Research Interests
Co-Principal Investigator, Lero - Process Quality Research Group
Current Research Projects:Co-Principal Investigator within Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre, funded by Science Foundation Ireland (www.sfi.ie) leading projects on Global Software Engineering and Connected Health;
Supervision of full-time and part-time PhD students who are/have been funded by Science Foundation Ireland (www.sfi.ie), Irish Research Council (http://www.research.ie/), European Union Projects, LGSSE - Lero Graduate School in Software Engineering (http://www.lero.ie/content/lgsselerograduateschoolsoftwareengineering), University of Eastern Finland, Technical University Munich, and Pontifical University Catholic of Rio Grande do Sul, Porte Algre, Brazil.
Recent collaborators include IBM, Ocuco, University of Limerick Hospital Group and Health Service Executive Chief Clinical Information Officers (CCIO).
Previous Research Projects:
Principal Investigator, UL, FESTA Female Empowerment for Science and Technology Academics (http://www.festa-europa.eu/public/formalities), funded by the European Union.
Principal Investigator within ARCH Technology Centre - Applied Research for Connected Health (www.arch.ie), funded by Enterprise Ireland (http://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/), led by UCD. Science Foundation Ireland Industry Fellow, researching with ADA-Security, Rockchapel, Co Cork.
Principal Investigator Lero@UL, TRANSFoRm Translational Research and Patient Safety in Europe (http://www.transformproject.eu/), funded by the European Union;Project
Principal Investigator, PAISEAN Plan-driven, Agile, Inner-Source Environment Analysis Network (http://www.lero.ie/project/paisean0), funded by Science Foundation Ireland (www.sfi.ie);
Project Team Member, Lero@UL, Developing a Global Software Development Framework for the Medical Device Industry (https://www.dkit.ie/rsrg/research/current-projects), completed August 2014.
Principal Investigator, Lero@UL, S-Cube Software Services and Systems Network (http://www.s-cube-network.eu/), completed March 2012.
Principal Investigator for Gender Audit @ UL reports available at http://gender.lero.ie/.
Adjunct Professor, University of Eastern Finland.
External Examiner for PhD theses in Finland, The Netherlands, Sweden, India, Canada.
Teaching Interests
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Limerick
[Limited teaching duties currently as I am seconded to Office of the President, University of Limerick].
Supervision of M.Sc. and Final Year Projects.
Workshops on Connected Health with School of Allied Health, UL.
Teaching topics: Software Processes, Software Process Improvement, Software Quality, Development of Information Systems.
Lecture to undergraduate, post-graduate (M.Sc. in Software Engineering), Higher Diploma and Graduate Diploma Students.
Professional Activities
Education
- 1999 University of Limerick - PhD
- 1992 University of Limerick - MSc
- 1983 NIHE (now University of Limerick) - BSc
Language
- English
- Irish
Committee
- Special Advisor to the University of Limerick President on Equality & Diversity,
- Strategy leader for Equality & Diversity within the University of Limerick
- Member of Irish University University Association sub-committee on Equality & Diversity
Publications
Book Chapter
Modelling Care Pathways in a Connected Health Setting
O'Leary, P;Buckley, P; Richardson, I
Foundations of Health Information Engineering and Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Conference Publication
HEALTHINF 2011: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HEALTH INFORMATICS
Shroff, V,Reid, L,Hashmi, S,Mulligan, G,Sheehy, D,Xiang, KY,Richardson, I,Traver V,Fred, A,Filipe, J,Gamboa, H
Healthinf 2011: Proceedings Of The International Conference On Health Informatics
2011 24TH IEEE-CS CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND TRAINING (CSEET)
Richardson, I,Reid, L,Seidman, SB,Pattinson, B,Delaney, Y,
2011 24th Ieee-Cs Conference On Software Engineering Education And Training (Cseet)
Software Quality: from Theory to Practice
Richardson, I,Delaney, Y,Abreu, FBE,DeFaria, JP,Machado, RJ
Quatic 2010: Seventh International Conference On The Quality Of Information And Communications Technology
DOI: 10.1109/QUATIC.2010.27
22ND CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND TRAINING, PROCEEDINGS
Richardson, I; Delaney, Y
2008 3RD IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE GLOBAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, PROCEEDINGS
Richardson, I; Avram, G; Deshpande, S; Casey, V
Proceedings - 2008 3rd IEEE International Conference Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2008
Richardson I.;Deshpande S.;Avram G.;Casey V.
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2008.21
International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) 2008
Richardson, Ita,Avram, Gabriela,Deshpande, Sadhana ,Casey, Valentine
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2008.21
ENVIRON 2005
Leonard, J., O Regan, B., Moles, R., Richardson, I.,
35th Annual Conference of the International Simulation And Gaming Association (ISAGA) and Conjoint Conference of Swiss Austrian German Simulation And Gaming Association (SAGSAGA)
Leonard, J., Moles, R., O'Regan, B., Richardson, I., 2004. . In Proceedings of the 6th-10th September 2004.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the International Simulation And Gaming Association (ISAGA) and Conjoint Conference of SAGSAGA.
Leonard, J., O Regan, B., Moles, R., Richardson, I
Other Publication
Bridging healthcare education and technology solution development through experimental innovation. National Institute of Health Sciences Research Bulletin (NIHS)
Carroll, N., Richardson, I., Moloney, M., O'Reilly, P.
Bridging healthcare education and technology solution development through experiential innovation (vol 8, pg 255, 2018)
Carroll, N;Richardson, I;Moloney, M;O'Reilly, P
Health And Technology
DOI: 10.1007/s12553-017-0215-1
Combining systems dynamics modeling and cellular automata to simulate the likely impacts of sustainability policies on future settlement patterns in Ireland
Moles, R; Leonard, J; O'Regan, B; Richardson, I
Peer Reviewed Journal
Bridging healthcare education and technology solution development through experiential innovation
Carroll, N;Richardson, I;Moloney, M;O'Reilly, P
Health And Technology
DOI: 10.1007/s12553-017-0209-z
Published Report
An assessment of supports and barriers for female researchers in Science, Engineering and Technology within the University of Limerick
Power, MJ; Richardson, I; Connolly, C