The Feminist Walk of Cork explores rich contributions of women and women led organisations. Members of the public are invited to take a winding walk across Cork city. There are no monuments to women in Cork city; the walk writes women into the spaces and topography of the city.

This seminar reported on the findings of the project Pathways towards Stable Housing for Parents & Children Exiting Residential Services.

Visiting research fellow, Dr Wajeehah Aayeshah (University of Melbourne), ran a workshop on 'Designing Kind Educational Practices on 29th May. 

Professor Andrew Cottey, Department of Government & Politics recently gave his inaugural lecture in the Dora Allman room at UCC. 

On 17 May a half day workshop was held in UCC to bring together different stakeholders and community members to explore the past, present, and future of prison abolition. The event was funded through the Collective Social Futures Interdisciplinary Research Programme, which seeks to drive innovative, critical, theoretical, participatory and community-engaged research,

On 22nd February Anton Floyd gave a reading from his latest poetry collection, Depositions, as part of UCC Refugee Week 2024. Depositions, was launched in June 2022 (in association with Doire Press). The book deals with population displacement and the worldwide refugee crisis with all proceeds from sales in support of the funds of UNHCR - Ireland the Refugee Agency of the United Nations. 

On 14 February the Sexual Violence Centre Cork Community Hub in collaboration with UCC Futures: Collective Social Futures   ISS21  and the Violence, Conflict and Gender research cluster screened Rattle Snake  followed by a Q&A with Mary Crilly and Prof. Maggie O’Neill UCC to honour ‘V-day’  which is “a global activist movement to end violence against all women (cisgender, transgender, and those who hold fluid identities that are subject to gender-based violence), girls and the Earth”.

Three projects recently received seed-funding under the UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures Interdisciplinary Research Funding Scheme. 

On 20-21 November 2023 UCC Futures: Collective Social Futures hosted a Festival of Social Science, including the launch of Professor Louise Ryan's new book, Social Networks and Migration: Relocations, Relationships and Resources; an evening of music and performance (see below); and a full-day symposium showcasing social science research across UCC.

Congratulations to Professor Maggie, Director of Collective Social Futures and ISS21 on receiving a Research Career Achievement Award at the 2025 UCC Research and Innovation Awards, held recentlyat the Lewis Glucksman Gallery.