ATU DONEGAL

Dr Christopher McEleney - first ever Doctorate recipient at ATU

Christopher McEleney was the first PhD recipient who graduated from ATU Donegal in November 2022. Christopher's educational path was not straight forward, as he left school at 14 years old intending never to return to education. Working as a carpenter during the economic downturn brought a new set of challenges and he returned in 2010 to complete his Leaving Certificate with Donegal ETB and he hasn't looked back since. In 2016, he graduated with an Honours Degree in Science and continued his studies through a Masters by Research in Electrochemistry which he successfully achieved in 2018. He can now address himself as Dr Christopher McEleney with pride! Such a significant achievement.

Achievement Award’ winner who inspires and encourages fellow law students

William Mc Lucas is a final year student studying a BA(Hons) in Law with Spanish at ATU Donegal.

Accommodation in Donegal

Dr Louise McBride, Head of Department of Nursing and Healthcare noted; "These two education awards are a true reflection of our team and partners engagement and collaboration in research, industry and clinical practice. Such awards are important recognition for the tireless efforts to continuously strive for excellence in evidence-based practices, research, collaboration, and engagement.”

The SPIT research project aims to improve student mental health of higher education students by providing evidencebased psychological interventions. The MyCad E-portfolio project collaboration brings together academic, industry and our HSE clinical nursing partners to develop a cutting-edge online access dashboard for nursing students and staff for competence assessment E-portfolio in our nursing education programmes.

These awards are a testament of collaboration, commitment and success of ATU with our University of Ulster, HSE North West Nursing and Axia partners.