Laura Keyes

Laura Keyes is a lecturer in the Informatics Department at the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown (ITB), Dublin, Ireland. Laura teaches in the areas of Information Technology Mathematics, Software Engineering and Testing, Databases, Data Mining and Geographic Data Mining as well as supervising student projects at undergraduate and postgraduate level.  Before joining ITB, Laura lectured at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, where she also worked as a research assistant and published extensively in the area of Graphical Object Recognition. She is currently completing her PhD in the field of Geographic Data Quality and Volunteered Geographic Information. Other research and teaching interests include enhancing the college first-year experience and enhancing the accessibility, teaching and learning of Mathematics for visually impaired students.