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EUROBORDERWALKS - Walking Borders, Risk, and Belonging

Funded through the IRC Advanced Laureate Awards (2023-2026), this ground-breaking project will use ethnographic and arts based biographical approaches to conduct 'bottom up' research across three significant European borders: Poland/Ukraine; Bosnia-Herzegovina/Croatia; and Northern Ireland/Republic of Ireland.

The project team is lead by Professor Maggie O’Neill (PI), Dept. Sociology & Criminology, ISS21/Collective Social Futures.

Image: Tomasz Ferenc.
(Motanka - traditional Ukrainian dolls).

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GreenInCities

Funded by Horizon Europe, the multi-partner GreenInCities project aims to build a new co-creative approach for implementing nature-based solutions in urban areas.

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CODA: A Hidden Minority Amongst the Majority

Dr Noel O'Connell is the recipient of a five-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship award under the SFI-IRC Pathway Programme. His ground-breaking research explores how hearing children of deaf adults (Codas) experience the courtesy stigma (or stigma-by-association) of their parents and the cultural resources they use to become agents of their own empowerment. Noel is based in ISS21 and the School of Applied Social Studies.

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UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures

ISS21 is lead partner in UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures.
UCC Futures supports the delivery of superior quality in research, scholarship, and the translation of research to tangible impact on the world across ten thematic areas.

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Collective Social Futures Interdisciplinary Research Projects

Seven interdisciplinary projects received seed-funding in 2024/5.

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Happening On 12/09/2025

Rethinking Research Sharing Practices: Ageing, Reclaiming the Personal and Artificial Intelligence

Co-hosted by the ISS21 Ageing Research Cluster & UCC Futures - Ageing and Brain Science, this symposium will explore the shift towards greater public engagement in research, and the implications of sharing scientific methods and tools.

MITIME’s UCC research team members; Dr Claire Dorrity, Dr Caitríona Ni Laoíre and Dr Claire Edwards, all from UCC'S School of Applied Social Studies. Not pictured are team members: Dr Mastoureh Fathi, Department of Sociology and Criminology, and Dr Piaras Mac Éinrí, formerly Department of Geography.

UCC to partner on PhD programme in mobility and migration

MITIME is an interdisciplinary PhD Programme focusing on mobility, migration, and societal transformation. University College Cork is one of seven UNIC universities and ten civil society partners brought together in this programme consortium. Funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks Call, the programme will recruit 15 PhD students across the consortium, two of whom will be registered at UCC.

Dr Julius-Cezar Macarie's project NIGHTWORK_FOOTPRINT receives Research Ireland Pathway Programme award

Congratulations to Dr Julius- Cezar Macarie, Department of Sociology & Criminology, Collective Social Futures and ISS21, one of six early stage researchers at UCC to receive a Research Ireland Pathway Programme award announced last week by Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless TD.

Left picture: Conference Planning Committee and ISS21 Migration and Integration Research Cluster members; Shirley Martin, Caitriona Ni Laoire, Mastoureh Fathi, and Mark Chu. Meiyun Meng, Conference Planning Committee member is not pictured here. Right picture: Fernanda Ferrari, Mother tongues, Shirley Martin, School of Applied Social Studies, UCC, and Chrysi Kyratsou, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick.

Migration, Place/making and Belonging Conference

The ISS21 Migration and Integration Research Cluster hosted a two-day conference on the themes of migration, place/making and belonging on 5-6 June 2025.

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