SMARTlab @ Skelligs

[SMARTlab Skelligs](https://www.smartlabskelligs.com/about) is based in the
Cahersiveen Library, supported by Kerry County Council and is a hot-desking
research cluster that undertakes research and supports local researchers as
part of the SMARTLab [global network,](https://www.smartlab.academy/global-
network) an academic collective created to ignite change.

SMARTlab Skelligs was established in 2017 in a unique working partnership with
a social enterprise, Living Iveragh DAC after a five-year relationship with
Professor Lizbeth Goodman and Ms. Jean Byrne, Director of Design21c and Living
Iveragh.

The collaborative partnership aimed to build a local research ecology
developed through embedded research, as a strategic action for the Iveragh
(Uíbh Ráthaigh) peninsula, Kells to Castlecove. This strategic development
plan emerged out of an initiative by Living Iveragh and the Insitute without
Boundaries that became a peninsula-wide consultation commissioned by Kerry
County and in 2017 Living Iveragh supported Dr Anita McKeown, FRSA as Director
of Research and Development, SMARTlab Skelligs as part of the SMARTLab Global
network, led by Professor Lizbeth Goodman and in collaboration with Living
Iveragh.