Working with Industry
Creative Connections: How IADT Links Industry with Research Excellence
IADT partners with industry across the creative, cultural, and digital sectors. Our researchers collaborate with studios, production companies, cultural organisations, and technology innovators to test ideas, develop new approaches, and deliver impactful solutions.
We offer a place where industry and research work side by side — connecting business with emerging media, immersive technologies, design innovation, and storytelling, and bringing these creative strengths into dialogue with the study of culture and the psychology of human experience and behaviour.
PhD candidate Eilís N. explores loneliness, isolation and our growing dependence on digital spaces in a newly published article examining Bo Burnham’s *Inside* (2021), featured in the *Irish Screen Studies Journal* special issue, *Cinema and Loneliness*.
Building Entrepreneurial Skills Through The IADT Student Accelerator Programme
The TU RISE IADT Elevate Programme hosted an XR Design Sprint bringing together enterprises and creative practitioners to explore real-world applications of immersive technologies through collaborative, hands-on innovation. Over five days, participants developed early-stage concepts across education, culture and creative industries, supported by design thinking and industry expertise.