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Dr Con Kennedy is Elected to TU Dublin Academic Council
9th February 2023
Dr Con Kennedy was elected to the TU Dublin Academic Council, which is the statutory body charged with establishing and maintaining academic standards and enhancing the quality of the student experience at the University.
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Con Kennedy has passed his Viva Voce Examination
6th December 2022
Con Kennedy has passed his Viva Voce examination. Professor David Deakins and Professor Tracy Bhamra were the external examiners who reviewed and approved Con's research, "What is the Entrepreneurship Process for Communication Design Enterprises?". Professor Thomas Cooney from the TU Dublin School of Marketing and Entrepreneurship was Con's supervisor.
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TU Dublin Web OTP Committee
6th June 2022
Con Kennedy was appointed to the TU Dublin Web OTP Committee. Con's role is School Content Lead and Group Committee Member. He will coordinate the content transfer of information from the old DIT College of Arts and Tourism websites into a new unified Faculty of Arts and Humanities TU Dublin website.
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Con Kennedy was Appointed to the Validation Panel at TUS
15th February 2022
Con Kennedy was appointed to the review panel for the Master of Arts in Interaction in Enterprise for Creative Industries at TUS.
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Organisational Design (School Design Team) Committee
26th January 2022
Con Kennedy was appointed to the TU Dublin Organisational Design (School Design Team) Committee, overseeing the school's transition into the new Faculty of Arts and Humanities and developing the future strategic plan for the school.
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Con Kennedy Appointed to Validation Panel at Griffith College Dublin
28th September 2021
Con Kennedy was appointed to the Griffith College Dublin's Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Graphic Communication Design review panel.
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Designing A Module In Entrepreneurship For Product Design Students
30th April 2021
Authors: PJ White, IT Carlow and Con Kennedy, TU Dublin.
Creative problem-solving has been identified as one of the most critical future-proof skills we can develop in our society. When educating future designers, entrepreneurship skills are now considered essential; however, designers find it difficult to establish themselves as entrepreneurs. Therefore, graduate designers increasingly need these skills to complement their creative abilities. This paper offers information to academic institutions looking to implement entrepreneurship modules in existing design and creative programmes. The paper seeks to understand the entrepreneurship skills required for product design graduates through a case study. Current teaching practice is described, and interviews and co-design sessions with relevant stakeholders are conducted to inform future entrepreneurship education for product design students. From these findings, a module descriptor entitled ‘Entrepreneurship for Designers’ was created for an existing programme and delivered through both practice and theory. This module aims to provide an understanding of the entrepreneurship process and offer students the confidence to pursue design-related ventures post-graduation.
Journal: Sage: Industry & Higher Education, Volume 36, Issue 2.
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Con Kennedy appointed an internal reviewer for the BA in Early Childhood Education
22nd February 2021
Con Kennedy was appointed internal educational reviewer for the BA (Hons) in Early Childhood Education at the TU Dublin School of Social Sciences, Law and Education..
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Iterations Issue 8 Published
31st January 2020
Issue eight of Iterations: Journal and Practice Review has just been published. Con Kennedy is the Design Editor, Reviewer and Co-Founder.
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TU Dublin 10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
15th November 2019
Con Kennedy will present his "Design as Entrepreneurship: Towards a Design-Specific Entrepreneurship Framework" research, a poster and oral presentation, TU Dublin 10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium, November 2019.
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