The Centre for Policy Studies has an active policy-driven research program in the fields of industrial policy, tourism, social policy and health economics. It has research collaborations both within UCC (with the Departments of Geography, Applied Social Studies, Statistics and with the Oral Health Services Research Centre) and externally (Florida Atlantic University, Economic and Social Research Institute, National Tourism Research Centre, University of Limerick and Research Unit,University of Cardiff).
Recent highlights include the award in June 2007 of a €300,000 Research Grant from the HRB to Dr Noel Woods to investigate provider remuneration systems in the treatment provision of oral health and the inclusion of Dr Woods as a Principal Investigator with the HRB Health Service Research Institute which received a €5 million PhD Scholars Programme award in June 2007.
