• Early-career researchers at UCC College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences among those to secure €3.8 million funding under the Research Ireland Pathway Programme awards.
• Dr Julius-Cezar Macarie to lead project investigating nightwork.
• Dr Evan Boyle to Urban Climate Collab to enhance collaborative responses to climate change.

Led by Professor Yvon Bonenfant, UCC artist and director of the Future Humanities Institute, The Opposite of Queer Trauma theatre performance performed two sold-out shows last weekend (June 14/15) as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival.

Researchers from UCC’s College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences presented new and original work across a range of disciplines at the annual Research Showcase Day on 14 May. 

Research led by Dr James Windle (UCC Department of Sociology and Criminology) and Professor Jools Gilson (UCC Department of Film, Music and Theatre) among projects awarded funding under the Research Ireland New Foundations programme.

Friday 25 April saw the launch of an important new book - Prisoners’ Bodies: Activism, Health, and the Prisoners’ Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972–1985, by Dr Oisín Wall (School of History and Radical Humanities Laboratory, UCC).

On April 2nd 2025 a Feminist Visual Activism Zine-making workshop was held at UCC. The workshop was organised by Kylie Thomas, as part of her research and teaching on feminist visual activism.  Future plans include workshops at UCC with the artists and zine-makers of the Cork Zine Fest. 

On 26th March, New Avenues to Teaching, School of Education and UCC Futures- Collective Social Futures hosted an event that brought together educators, researchers, and students for a day of insightful discussions around educational equality, inclusion and diversity. 

A public screening of The Palestine Exception was held in UCC on Friday 21st March. We were delighted to welcome Prof Jan Haaken, one of the film's directors, to the screening. 

This panel discussion event addressed critical questions about current trends and historical legacies in contemporary migration scholarship and research.