Lizbeth Goodman

Prof Lizbeth Goodman is Chair of Creative Technology Innovation and Full Professor of Inclusive Design for Education at University College Dublin, where she directs the Inclusive Design Research Centre of Ireland at UCD, in partnership with SMARTlab clg and the Academy4theFuture. She is Chair of EDI for SMME and is an Athena Swan programme representative for Engineering & Architecture. Lizbeth founded the SMARTlab in its first iteration in 1992 and has developed the award-winning practice-based PhD Programme through the institute, along with the associated MAGIC Multimedia and Games Innovation Centre and Gamelab, which Lizbeth designed with industry collaborators as a prime knowledge transfer space in the London docklands prior to moving the lab to Dublin in 2010-11. Lizbeth and her teams specialise in developing ground-up technology solutions with and for people of all levels of cognitive and physical ability. in all her work, she applies an inclusive design method to practice-based innovation to transform lives through providing unlimited access to education and tools for creative expression.