Professor Noel Fitzpatrick is a Professor of Philosophy, Academic Lead of GradCAM, Research Centre for Creative Arts and Media, he is Academic Lead of the European Culture and Technology Lab (ECT Lab+). He teaches Critical Theory, Philosophy and Aesthetics to undergraduate students at the school and supervises PhD students and Post Doctoral Candidates in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities . Noel is a Senior Marie-Curie Research Fellow with the GradCAM where he gives seminars on Phenomenology, Philosophy of Technology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Epistemology and Hermeneutics. He was also the Prinicpal Investigator for MSCA RISE 'Real Smart Cities' project (2017-2022) and MSCA RISE 'Net working ecologically smart territories' (2021-2025) and is Principlal Investigator on MSCA SE EPISTEAM (2023-2027). He is also a funded investigator with Science Foundation Ireland in ADAPT, ethics and AI. He is also lead prinicpal investigator on the Erasmus Strategic Partnership : Ethics and Ecology in Technological Education and was a partner on the Erasmus Strategic Partnerhip RASL ' Reseach and in Art and Science Laboratory'. He was the Head of Reseach for the College of Arts and Tourism from 2015 to 2020 where he was responisble for the research strategy in relation to University Designation. He was also the chair of Irish Humanities Alliance at the Royal Irish Academy. Before joining the school of Art, Design and Printing he worked for two years on a SIF funded project for the development of a National Network in Learning and Teaching for the Institutes of Technology in Ireland and the DIT: The Learning Innovation Network (http://www.lin-ireland.com). Prior to working on LIN Noel was responsible for the development of eLearning within the Faculty of Applied Arts at the DIT. (http://languagecorner.dit.ie). Before that Noel taught for 12 years at the University of Paris VII where he received a research fellowship (ATER) from the University Paris VII in 2003-2005. Noel graduated from UCD with a BA in English and Philosophy, and an MA in Philosophy (1989). For his masters research with Prof Richard Kearney he concentrated on the early hermeneutic philosophy of Paul Ricoeur. He then moved to France (1990) to continue his postgraduate research into contemporary French philosophy, in particular the Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Paul Ricoeur. He obtained an MPhil (1994) from the University of Paris VII in French Pragmatic Linguistics: ‘la linguistique d’énonciation’. His doctoral studies were carried out in the ‘Ecole Doctorale, Langue, Littérature, Image, Civilisations et Science Humaines’ which is under the responsibility of Professor Julia Kristeva. In 2005 he obtained his PhD (doc ès lettres) with first class honours entitled Le sujet et Les je(ux) de discours dans l’oeuvre de Brian Friel (The ‘I’ and the narrative self in the work of Brian Friel). The thesis was published in book format by ANRT Lille, in Jan 2008 as Le sujet et les je(ux) de discourse dans l’Oeuvre de Brian Friel.  He has presented and published widely in the fields of Contemporary Theatre Studies, Philosophy, Educational Research and Computer Mediated Discourse Analysis. He has also collaborated on a joint poerty/painting publication with the Armenian painter Gaguik Martirosyan (2005). Most recent book Publications are, Aesthetics, Digital Studies, Bernard Stiegler, Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2021 and has written the collective Inter|Nation a book with Bernard Stiegler, Bifurquer Il n'y a pas d'alternative, LL, 2020. He currently writing a book on The Emergence of the  Idiom, the problem with Large Language Models.

Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, Epistemology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Philosophy of Language, Pragmatic Linguistics, Theatre Studies