Research Communicator of the Year
This award recognises researchers who have taken a proactive approach to sharing their research with the general public, thereby raising UCC profile.
Submission formats include:
- Op-Ed in News Outlet (entries must be self-authored and published in a news outlet).
- New Media (entries may include videos, radio segments, podcast, and other works of new media.
- Faculty cited in Media (entries must include quotes or references to UCC research from more than one news article. Entrants must be evaluated based on number of articles in which the faculty member was cited. Faculty affiliation with UCC must be identified).
Submissions must be accessible to and intended for a broad, general public audience. They must be relevant to topics, events and issues of societal impact in the calendar year 2023.
Nominations can be made by any UCC staff member.
Application Details
Evaluation Criteria
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Previous Winners
| Year | Awardee | College/School/Department/Centre/Institute |
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| 2023 | Dr Olive McCarthy | Centre for Co-operative Studies / Cork University Business School |
| 2022 | Professor Hannah Daly | Environmental Research Institute and MaREI |
| 2021 | Dr Paul Deane | MaREI |
| 2020 | Professor Alan Kelly | School of Food and Nutritional Sciences |
| 2019 | Professor Conor O'Mahony | School of Law |
| 2018 | Dr Theresa Reidy | Department of Government & Politics |
| 2017 | Professor John Cryan | Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience |