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The NCI psychology department was delighted to host an international guest speaker at the college today with Dr Melissa Allen from Lancaster University giving a talk entitled Symbolic understanding of pictures in typical development and autism: divergent pathways? (Download the slides from the event

27th – 29th March Trinity Long Room Hub With a Guest Lecture by Keynote Speaker Melissa Allen in NCI on Friday 27th March at 11am. This international and interdisciplinary conference will bring together researchers in the field of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Speakers from psychology, linguistics and philosophy will discuss the nature of language and thought with regard to Autism Spectrum Disorder and other neurodevelopmental disorders. The conference is hosted by Trinity College Dublin’s Arts & Humanities Research Institute, and is a collaboration between National College of Ireland, and different departments and schools within TCD (The School of Psychology, The School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, The School of Social Sciences and Philosophy).

National College of Ireland is delighted to announce the return of the very popular lunchtime series In the Psychologists' Chair. The event series will cover topics such as the psychology of homicidal behaviour, the effects of loneliness on your heart and how to apply psychology to education.

Between the Grammys, the BAFTAs and the Oscars, awards season is well and truly underway - and the world of academia is no different!

On the 17th December, teams of students from NCI will spend just 24 hours designing, developing and deploying websites for charities Today, the 17th of December, marks the second year of a twenty four hour charity appeal – Webmas – run under the auspices of Sam Cogan, a lecturer in NCI's School of Computing. In his running of the Certificate in Web Development course last year, Sam convinced fifteen students from his classes to take part in Webmas 2013; Webmas 2014 has now reached forty participants.

Mobile technology is one of the most rapidly changing and in demand areas of software development today – which makes it a tremendously exciting area in which to study or work.

Annual Discover University programme concludes at NCI

The most recent Marketing Mavericks event took place on April 23rd at National College of Ireland with Dave Allen, founding member of the post punk band Gang Of Four, who now works as Adjunct Lecturer on Digital Strategy at the University of Oregon and Director of Artist & Music Industry Advocacy at Beats Music. Dave, who describes his role with Beats as ‘part education, part awareness’, was drawn to the company because it is led by people who are strongly rooted in the music industry – from noted producer Jimmy Iovine to Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and Dr Dre.

NCI launches new event series in association with The Irish Times