Shelley Brady

(She/Her)

Dr. Shelley Brady is a Researcher at Dublin City University’s Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics. Her work explores how artificial intelligence can be combined with animal behaviour to improve human and animal welfare, including a project developing seizure-alert detection collars for assistance dogs. She has a background in behaviour analysis, disability support, universal design and inclusive education, with a strong record of public engagement and applied research.

Experience

  • –present
    Postdoctoral Researcher, Dublin City University

Education

  • 2016 
    Ulster University , PhD

Honours

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), 2024. Engaged Public Engagement (EPE) Champion, 2025. John Kelly Collaboration Award for Universal Design for Learning, 2022. Winner Post-Graduate Student of the Year (UK Society for Behaviour Analysis), 2017. Winner, Innovative Practice Award (BILD International Conference), 2015.

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