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Our Research Groups

The Future Humanities Institute comprises the Radical Humanities Laboratory, and a range of research groupings that synergise within and across disciplines.

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MIGMOBS is a huge and ambitious project on the root of global inequalities: on the neo-colonial relations implied in a world of selective borders which dictate who can be mobile and who is excluded.

Professor Adrian Favell, PI, MIGMOBS

MIGMOBS - The Orders and Borders of Global Inequality: Migration and Mobilities in Late Capitalism

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The CASCADE team is excited to be partnering with some of the leading experts in text and cultural analytics and machine learning from across the UK and Europe.

Dr James O’Sullivan, PI, CASCADE

Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments. An MSCA Doctoral Network.

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Working with members of villages in China’s multi-ethnic Southwest, ECura seeks out ways to empower communities to adopt digital technologies to become curators of their traditional music and dance.

Dr. Lijuan Qian, PI, ECura Project

Everyone’s a Curator:
Digitally Empowering Ethnic Minority
Music Sustainability in China

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Future Humanities seed funds interdisciplinary experiments that open new doors to collaboration within and outside the arts and humanities. This exciting work sets the stage for new research pathways.

Dr Yvon Bonenfant

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News

01 Aug 2025

Dr. Stephen Roddy Publishes Work on Ethical Framework for "AI" in Music

Dr Stephen Roddy of the Radical Humanities Laboratory and the Department of Digital Humanities, University College Cork and his frequent collaborator Dr. Brian Bridges of Ulster University publish their work on deriving an ethically grounded framework from the field of Cybernetics in the volume Artificial Media: Emerging Trends in Narratives, Education and Creative Practice in Springer’s series on Cultural Computing.
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11 Jul 2025

The Emplantation of Catholicism in Pre-Modern Korea reviewed by Religious Studies Review

Congratulations to Dr Kevin Cawley, Senior Lecturer in Korean Studies and Director of the Irish Institute of Korean Studies, on the publication of an outstanding review of his latest book: The Emplantation of Catholicism in Pre-Modern Korea - Texts, Teachings and Gender Relations by the journal Religious Studies Review.
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04 Jul 2025

New Marie Skłodowska-Curie Project at the School of History and the Radical Humanities Laboratory

Welcome to Dr Aisling Shalvey who has joined the School of History as a MSCA fellow under the mentorship of Dr Kylie Thomas for the project UCARE1945 (Unaccompanied Children’s Access to Healthcare (1945-1950))
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01 Jul 2025

Boole Library Exhibition - Dr Jemima Hodgkinson

Launched on April 14 2025 and curated by Research Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Jemima Hodgkinson, this exhibition which runs until the end of July 2025 shows how key events in the Irish Revolution were reported on in the African American press, 1919-23.
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