Subject: Sustainability

Building a Dashboard for the Behavioural Energy and Travel Tracker Data Set

Emma Howard (email | all projects)

** This project is only available for students in the MSc in Statistics & Sustainability programme **  The Behavioural Economics Unit of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) commissioned the national survey entitled Behavioural Energy and Travel Tracker (BETT). According to the website (https://www.seai.ie/data-and-insights/behavioural-insights/publications/bett-dataset),  “The tracker uses a behavioural science technique known as the … Read more

Sustainable food production: Using statistical modelling to assess the impact of climate on yield production across multiple harvests of an agricultural ecosystems

Caroline Brophy (email | all projects)

ELIGIBILITY: This project is for a student taking the MSc in Statistics and Sustainability. An agricultural experiment was carried out across multiple sites in Europe. At each site, species diversity was manipulated agronomic grassland plots, and the yield was recorded across multiple harvests. The climatic conditions vary considerably across the sites where the experiments were … Read more

A comparison of statistical methods used to model the effect of species diversity in agricultural ecosystems

Caroline Brophy (email | all projects)

ELIGIBILITY: This project is for a student taking the MSc in Statistics and Sustainability. Increasing the number of species sown in an agricultural grassland system provides a potential way to improve the sustainability of the overall system. Experiments designed to test this typically have species diversity manipulated across field-scale plots, with a plot-level response such … Read more

TAKEN: Identifying relapse risk of vasculitis patients discontinuing long term treatment therapy

Arthur White (email | all projects)

This project is in collaboration with the joint School of Medicine/ADAPT health research project called PARADISE. ANCA Vasculitis is a rare auto-immune disease in which sufferers are susceptible to flares, whereby a person’s immune system attacks their own body. Treating people with vasculitis is difficult, because the most successful treatments, such as rituximab, have significant … Read more

Computers and Sustainability

Tim Savage (email | all projects)

Happy to discuss student generated ideas and proposals in the area of computers and sustainability and particularly education. Projects could include: Prior projects that have been supervised include: Interested in both Computational Sustainability and Green Computing