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News
University of Galway Designing Futures wins Best Paper Award at leading international Higher Education conference
Jul
01
2024
Posted: 13:28 IST
Research from University of Galway's Designing Futures programme, "(Re-)Discovering the treasure within – The contribution of a Design Your Life Module to Undergraduate Education" has won the Best Paper Award at the 10th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’24), June 18th-21st, 2024, Valencia, Spain.
The Designing Futures paper was awarded the top article accolade from 81 accepted full papers at the conference, selected from an initial 288 full paper submissions with authors from 56 different countries.
Authored by Professor Tony Hall, Professor Michelle Millar and Dr Connie O'Regan, the winning University of Galway paper reports on the evaluation of Design Your Life as a core element of the University of Galway Designing Futures programme.
Through Designing Futures, University of Galway was the first Irish university to introduce Life Design/Design Your Life as a for-credit module in 2021.
