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Dr. Emma Louise Howard

Assistant Professor (Statistics)
      
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Dr. Emma Louise Howard

Assistant Professor (Statistics)

 


Emma is a Assistant Professor in the Trinity College Dublin School of Computer Science and Statistics. Her research interests include the areas of learning analytics, mathematics/statistics education in higher education, aiding student support services through the use of data analytics and student mental health research.
  Educational/Instructional Technology   Higher Education
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Member of Editorial Board for Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications: International Journal of the IMA (TEAMAT) March 2025
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Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) 8/10/2024 Present
Member of the Irish Statistical Association (ISA) 5/3/2023 Present
Howard, E., White, A., & Wyse, J., Contextualizing the research problem: improving cluster analysis insights into student learning, International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 0, (0), 2026, p1-23 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL  Handle
Alejandra Martínez Monés Caitlin Mills Jelena Jovanovic Xavier Ochoa(ed.), 15th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK25), Demo of ouladFormat: an R package for loading and formatting the Open University Learning Analytics Dataset, Dublin, 3-7 March, ACM, 2025, 290 p, Notes: [LAK 25 Companion Proceedings], Proceedings of a Conference, PUBLISHED
de la Hoz-Ruiz, Antonio and Howard, Emma and Hijón-Neira, Raquel, The Enhancement of Statistical Literacy: A Cross-Institutional Study Using Data Analysis and Text Mining to Identify Statistical Issues in the Transition to University Education, Information, 15, (9), 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Mullen, C., Howard, E., & Cronin, A., A scoping literature review of the impact and evaluation of mathematics and statistics support in higher education, Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Howard, E., Farahani, Z. T., Rashleigh, C., & Dooley, B., Developing a national database for higher education student counselling services: the importance of collaborations, Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 41, (2), 2024, p247-253 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Meehan, M., & Howard, E., The university mathematics lecture: to record, or not to record, that is the question, Mathematics Education Research Journal, 36, 2024, p285-310 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Howard, E., & Khakhar, R., Students' Perceptions of, and Engagement with, Student Support Services, Student Affairs Ireland (SAI) Summer Seminar 2024, Limerick, Ireland, 18th June, 2024, Poster, PRESENTED
McCormack, D. & Howard, E., Exploring Students' use of Generative AI tools, Science and Maths Education (SMEC) Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 13-14th June, edited by Twohill, A., Naughton, Y., & O'Neill, N. , 2024, pp55-56 , Notes: [Video presentation], Published Abstract, PUBLISHED  DOI
Howard, E., Mullen, C., & Cronin, A., A scoping systematic review of mathematics and statistics support evaluation literature: Lessons learnt, Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Research in Mathematics Education in Ireland (MEI9), Dublin, Ireland, 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI
Mahon, C., Hamburger, D., Webb, J.B., Yager, Z., Howard, E., Booth, A., & Fitzgerald, A., Protocol of a cluster randomised trial of BodyKind: a school-based body image programme for adolescents, BMC Public Health, 23, (2246), 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
  

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Howard, E., ouladFormat R package: Preparing the Open University Learning Analytics Dataset for analysis, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Emma Howard, 'ouladFormat', ouladFormat: Loads and Formats the Open University Learning Analytics Dataset for Data Analysis, 1.1.2, CRAN, 2024, -, Software, PUBLISHED
Armstrong-Astley, R., Flynn, F., Dooley, B., Fox, T., Battle, B., Byrne, D., Chambers, K., Connolly, A., Cunniffe, S., Howard, E., Kirwin, S., Maguire, T., McNamara, R., O'Connor, T., O'Reilly, E., Rashleigh, C., Sheaf, G., Sita, G., Surdey, J., Tayer Farahani, Z., Weiner, R., & Ó Mathúna, C., How counselling and peer-led services can optimise student success: An integrated approach to student mental health and wellbeing in higher education, Trinity College Dublin, June, 2022, Report, PUBLISHED
Howard, E., Student success: Exploring evidence-based academic, emotional, and social supports seminar report, 2022, Report, PUBLISHED
Meehan, M., & Howard, E., Report on undergraduate mathematics students' perceptions of the affordances and constraints of the online environment for learning, 2020, Report, PUBLISHED

  


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Nominated for a Teaching and Learning Award in the College of Science in University College Dublin 2021/22