The School of Education, UCC hosted ETC22, an international conference bringing together researchers from 16 countries to explore communication and diversity in mathematics education, with a particular focus on language, meaning-making and methodological approaches.

The ‘RED Framework - Cocreating Rights Enabled by Design [RED] for IoT in Intellectual Disability’ project, that is funded through the Taighde Éireann Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications CONNECT Centre, was among the poster award winners at the recent ‘International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities’ (IASSIDD), 7th European Congress. 

Communities should be part of defining ethics is the principle underpinning a new Community-Based Research Ethics Resource poster and accompanying web pages developed through collaboration between community organisations, artists, researchers, university researchers, and public sector partners. 

UCC researcher, Dr JC MacQuarie, is conducting ground-breaking research with night-workers, a significant cohort of the workforce who are largely invisible to the general public and underrepresented in labour history, and urban and night studies. His work recently featured in Le Devoir, one of Canada's most respected and influential newspapers.  

Conference Announcement & Call for Abstracts

On July 13th 2026, the editors and authors of the new book Deep Commons celebrated publication at an online launch event.

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.