On the 23rd and 24th of June, the UCC Department of Sociology and Criminology, and ISS21 Crime and Social Harm research cluster, hosted the 17th North South Criminology Conference, supported by the Collective Social Futures Major Events Fund. This two-day event included six roundtable discussions and 61 papers presented across 20 panels.

During May-June 2026 Professor Máiréad Dunne delivered keynote presentations at international events held in University College Dublin and Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan.  

On 8th June, Collective Social Futures was delighted to host Professor Fiona Chambers' inaugural lecture. 

We are delighted to welcome Hannah Weytjens as Visiting Scholar at Collective Social Futures and ISS21 during June 2026.

Dr Gema Kloppe-Santamaría presents paper on religion and violence in Latin America as part of the Collective Social Futures 2026 seminar series. 

Dr Gema Kloppe-Santamaria and Dr Siobhán O’Sullivan have each been appointed to the role of Deputy Director of ISS21/Collective Social Futures.

This exciting pilot project involved the UCC School of Public Health and the Department of Planning staff and students, for the first time, collaborating with international expert Marcus Grant, to test teaching and learning methods in an interactive workshop, including Health Impact Assessment and Place Standard Tool, with a view to develop future co-teaching projects.

We were delighted to welcome Vikki Bell (Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London) to UCC to present a paper as part of the CSF seminar series.