Prof Bren A. LeFrançois, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada presented a seminar on the theme of mad studies, followed by a discussion with social work students and other participants on the implications of mad studies for professional practice.

Professor Diane Reay, University of Cambridge gave the keynote address at the launch of an important new book by the ISS21 REACT Cluster and UCC – Collective Social Futures on Thursday 12th September. 

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.