{"id":4221,"date":"2025-04-01T09:59:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T09:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/?page_id=4221"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:41:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:41:02","slug":"bio-sarah-mcdonagh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/standards4dt\/bio-sarah-mcdonagh\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah McDonagh"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sarah Anne McDonagh
<\/strong>Postdoctoral researcher, Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, Spain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div> <\/div>\n
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Sarah Anne McDonagh is a postdoctoral researcher at Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona (UAB) and a member of the Transmedia Catalonia research group. Her specialisation is in media accessibility, cultural heritage, sustainability, and artifical intelligence. Her research interests include digital heritage, particularly contested heritage, and the intersections between sustainability, accessibility and AI. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Sarah has been involved in several national and European projects (Accessibility, Culture, and Training project<\/a> and Prisons Memory Archive<\/a>). Additionally, Sarah has been part of the H2020 GreenSCENT<\/a> (Green Citizen Engagement for a Green Future) project, where she collaborated with an international team to engage people with environmental issues in their local communities through the development of accessible apps, digital platforms and educational resources. She has published in international journals (Journal of Specialised Translation<\/em> and Universal Access in the Information Society<\/em>) and recently edited a book with Routledge on the European Green Deal in Education<\/em>. Sarah is currently involved in two AI projects: ALFIE, which aims to improve the EU\u2019s understanding of AI through expert collaboration and the development of an accessible AI tool, and MOSAIC, which seeks to create a multilingual, AI-driven platform for European media content. She is also a member of the Clear Climate network<\/a> and a collaborator in the ENACT project. She has also contributed a technical reports on accessibility and sustainability as a member of the Study Group on Accessibility and Inclusion in the ITU Metaverse Focus Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\n<\/div> <\/div>\n

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Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, Spain<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>

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