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11 Feb 2026
Registration now open for Global Undergraduate Awards
Registration for the Global Undergraduate Awards is now open. All Department of English 2nd and 3rd year students who submit work to the Global Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit work to the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards. The rules/requirements for the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards are the same as those for the Global Undergraduate Awards, with the exception that 2nd and 3rd year entrants will be judged separately. There will be one winner for the Department of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.
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06 Feb 2026
Listening to Viruses: UCC Researchers Publish Interdisciplinary work at the Intersection of Music and Medicine.
Dr. Stephen Roddy publishes paper on the sonification of virological data with Prof. Liam Fanning and colleagues at the Molecular Virology Diagnostic and Research Laboratory, APC Microbiome and the School of Medicine, UCC.
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09 Jan 2026
Dr Heather Laird has been appointed as one of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies Visiting Scholars for Spring 2026
Dr Heather Laird has been appointed as one of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies Visiting Scholars for Spring 2026. Her current book project, “Land and literature in Modern Ireland: Decolonising the Field”, is a monograph that explores post-revolutionary Irish writing in the context of land ownership, occupancy and usage. While the book is shaped by decolonial theory, it is also inspired by Heather’s own experience of having been raised on a family farm on the county boundaries of Leitrim and Roscommon.
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22 Dec 2025
HEA launches national policy for generative AI led by UCC's Dr James O'Sullivan
The Higher Education Authority (HEA) has published Generative AI in Higher Education Teaching & Learning: Policy Framework, a new national framework to guide the responsible, values-based adoption of generative artificial intelligence in Irish higher education. The development of the policy was led by Dr James O'Sullivan, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities at University College Cork.
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