Dr Leah Ridgway

If you want a bit of positive news in a challenging world, I've written an honest and open reflective blog on our @Athena_SWAN Gold Award in the hopes it can help others, because people are the heart of our universities @UoNEngineering 💛🦢

Great to present at the @AdvanceHE #tlconf24 on how we can support non-specialists engage in an engineering curriculum by using a mix of simulations and practicals to ease the steepness of the learning curve

Absolutely thrilled that our qualitative research paper "Investigating Student Approaches to Rearranging Circuit Diagrams" is available on early access before it's in the next issue of IEEE Transactions on Education ieeexplore.ieee.org/document… @DCU @CASTeL_DCU @UniofNottingham

We only went and won folks! My team has worked so hard and we've shown not only is an interdisciplinary course between Electronic Engineering and Law & Government possible(!), but it's exactly what we need to make the world a better place

Something fancy to celebrate the end of the year with @DCU @DCUEngineering and multiple @CASTeL_DCU folks here too!

Robots at the ready! Our first year engineers have done a great job @DCUEngineering @DCU

Celebrating #EngineersWeek with @DCUEngineering it's so much harder to talk about yourself than about electronics! My research is all about how we can teach engineering better and hopefully get more engineers through the pipeline @CASTeL_DCU

Hot take of the day: I miss getting to see the start of the next article in the old scans that's below the paper I was actually interested in!

It's 5 years since the golden swan surprise!

It's been a whole year since my last chemo session. The stubbornness skills to keep going with something that's so hard that I learnt during my PhD are remarkably transferable to cancer treatment!

Today I had a good hair day. (I still don't know if I should be embarrassed or proud that multiple students have told me they like my haircut 🤣)

One of the things my close friends would always laugh about was when I'd say something that they didn't quite get what I was on about - they'd repeat it with an Irish accent and then apparently I made sense? 😅. Apparently using Irish-English with an English accent is confusing

I moved from a 100% teaching contract to a "traditional" research and teaching contract. It's been strange to get used to (in a good way). The good parts are having time to be think and to be intentional. The bad is that I have to be a lot more disciplined in prioritising my work

After 5 hours on skates today, shoes feel wrong.