UCC Research & Innovation Awards 2024
Award Winners
| Award Category |
Winner |
Affiliation |
| Researcher of the Year | Professor Tom Birkett | School of English & Digital Humanities |
| Early-Stage Researcher of the Year | Dr Sanathana Konugolu Venkata Sekar Dr. Kian Mintz-Woo |
Tyndall National Institute School of Society, Politics & Ethics |
| Research Career Achievement Award | Professor Caitriona O'Driscoll Professor Alan Dobson |
School of Pharmacy School of Microbiology |
| Research Team of the Year | Atlas of the Irish Civil War Research Team: Dr Helene O'Keeffe, Dr John Crowley, Dr Donal Ó Drisceoil, Dr John Borgonovo, Mike Murphy, Dr Andy Bielenberg, John Dorney, Charlie Roche | School of History & Department of Geography |
| Research Supervisor of the Year | Professor Guangbo Hao Brian Corbett |
School of Engineering & Architecture Tyndall National Institute |
| Research Communicator of the Year | Dr. Michelle McKeown | Department of Geography |
| Research Image of the Year | Dr. Jatin Nagpal, Dr. María Aburto, Koushika Chandrasekaran, Lorena Morales García, Alexandre Jean Claude Cergneux Professor Fiona Kearney, Dr. Luigi Lonardo, Claire Halpin |
APC Microbiome Ireland
School of Law and The Lewis Glucksman Gallery |
| Research Support Person of the Year | Niamh Mundow Jerry Deasy |
OVPRI INFANT Research Centre |
| Vice President for Research & Innovation Award for Interdisciplinary Research | Dr. Mohamad Saab | School of Nursing & Midwifery |
| Best Publication of the Year Involving an Undergraduate Author | Ms. Ava McCoy | School of Applied Psychology |
| Research Award for Open Science | Dr. Lijuan Qian | School of Film, Music & Theatre |
| Creating a Culture for Responsible Conduct of Research | Professor Orla Lynch, Professor Yvonne Nolan, Professor Eric Moore, Professor Ronan Carbery, Dr Barry Monahan, Dr. Aoife Coffey, Dr. Irene Kavanagh |
Dean of Doctoral Studies Research Skills Group |
| The President's Award for Research Impacting the Sustainable Development Goals | CAPACITY Project - Professor Brian Ó Gallachóir, Professor Hannah Daly, Dr. Fionn Rogan, Dr. Paul Deane, Dr. Vahid Aryanpur, Dr. Tomas Mac Uidhir, Aisling Murphy, Bakytzhan Suleimenov | Energy, Policy & Modelling Group at MaREI |
| Engaged Research of the Year | Hidden Grief Research Project - Dr. Sharon Lambert, Dr. Daniel O'Callaghan, Aaron Bolger, Mark Wright | School of Applied Psychology |
| Invention of the Year | Raman for Lactate: Ray Burke, Dr Simon Toft Sorenson, Dr Jason Yang, Dr Rekha Gautam, Dr Huihui Lu, Professor Fergus McCarthy | Tyndall National Institute & INFANT Research Centre |
| Licence of the Year | BarraLake- Professor Mark Hutchinson, Professor Philip O'Reilly, Dr. John O’Brien, Dr. Panos Kyziropoulos | Cork University Business School |
| Spin-out of the Year | Neurobell – Dr Mark O’Sullivan, Dr Alison O’Shea, Colm Murphy | INFANT Research Centre |
| Consultancy Project of the Year | Professor Hannah Daly | School of Engineering & Architecture and MaREI |
| Start-up of the Year | Danny McEnery | PrimaHealth |
Photo Gallery
Photo Credit: Ger McCarthy