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. 

On 28th April 2026, the HIA-IM and TRANSLATE-HIA research team including Eibhlín Looney and Dr Monica O'Mullane from the School of Public Health, with Dr Joanna Purdy, All-Island Institute of Public Health delivered an in-person policy briefing to government officials in the Healthy Ireland team, Department of Health.

• ‘In Conversation with’ event will explore the science behind the restorative power of gardening and its ability to change people’s lives.
• International bestselling work draws on Dr Sue Stuart-Smith’s extensive experience as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist.

Join us on 23rd April for the launch of a research report highlighting how unequal educational experiences affect Traveller students’ journeys and futures.

If, as Henry Giroux warns, universities are becoming market-driven systems that foster control, exclusion, and racism, how can we resist and reimagine them as spaces for equitable learning, creativity and social responsibility?

Collective Social Futures was delighted to recently welcome Kelly Salchow MacArthur to speak at the CSF Seminar Series.