Welcome from Project Leader Hiram Morgan
The UCC Humanities Platform offers a model of inter-departmental, inter-collegiate and national co-operation in the pursuit of 4th level excellence. It is built on collaboration internally at University College Cork, between UCC, TCD and NUIG in the SIF-funded Texts, Contexts, Cultures graduate training scheme, on the CELT digitization project involving North-South links and nationally on the Humanities Serving Irish Society consortium which seeks to redefine Arts and Humanities research-led education across the island.
The UCC Humanities Platform
- has established three post-doctoral fellowships at Irish National Institute for Historical Research, hosted by the School of History UCC.
- is assisting the following ongoing humanities projects: the Centre for Neo-Latin Studies (Classics), Locus (Medieval Irish) and Making Books, Shaping Readers (English) with post-graduate studentships and conference funding.
- is participating in Texts, Contexts and Cultures an innovative PhD programme for the Humanities operated jointly by UCC, TCD and NUIG.
- is continuing UCC’s commitment to digitization in collaboration with CELT (link to CELT Final PRTLI 4 Report) and with the Boole Library at UCC and nationally in liaison with the DHO (Digital Humanities Observatory), based at the Royal Irish Academy.
- is supporting the purchase of primary source materials for the Boole Library
- is backed by a host of individual scholars from the disciplines in UCC.
