CACSSS Research Highlights
Read MoreIRC & AHRC announce opening of funded UK-Ireland collaboration
IRC & AHRC announce opening of funded UK-Ireland collaboration in the digital humanities research grants
Read MoreFor second year running a CACSSS postdoc – Dr Edward Molloy, School of English and DH - wins Maurice J. Bric Medal of Excellence in IRC’s Researcher of the Year Awards 2020.
Read MoreHidden Galleries Exhibition now open in the Boole Library, UCC
Dr James Kapalo (Senior Lecturer Study of Religions Department) and Dr Gabriela Nicolescu (Postdoctoral Researchers Hidden Galleries project) have opened an exhibition featuring materials and items collected and analysed as part of the ERC funded Hidden Galleries project on Friday 9th October 2020 in the Boole Library, UCC. The exhibition will run from October 9th until March 31st 2021, Boole Library, University College Cork
Find Out MoreHidden Galleries Exhibition now open in the Boole Library, UCC
Dr James Kapalo (Senior Lecturer Study of Religions Department) and Dr Gabriela Nicolescu (Postdoctoral Researchers Hidden Galleries project) have opened an exhibition featuring materials and items collected and analysed as part of the ERC funded Hidden Galleries project on Friday 9th October 2020 in the Boole Library, UCC. The exhibition will run from October 9th until March 31st 2021, Boole Library, University College Cork
Find Out MoreHidden Galleries Exhibition now open in the Boole Library, UCC
Dr James Kapalo (Senior Lecturer Study of Religions Department) and Dr Gabriela Nicolescu (Postdoctoral Researchers Hidden Galleries project) have opened an exhibition featuring materials and items collected and analysed as part of the ERC funded Hidden Galleries project on Friday 9th October 2020 in the Boole Library, UCC. The exhibition will run from October 9th until March 31st 2021, Boole Library, University College Cork
Find Out MoreHidden Galleries Exhibition now open in the Boole Library, UCC
Dr James Kapalo (Senior Lecturer Study of Religions Department) and Dr Gabriela Nicolescu (Postdoctoral Researchers Hidden Galleries project) have opened an exhibition featuring materials and items collected and analysed as part of the ERC funded Hidden Galleries project on Friday 9th October 2020 in the Boole Library, UCC. The exhibition will run from October 9th until March 31st 2021, Boole Library, University College Cork
Find Out MoreHidden Galleries Exhibition now open in the Boole Library, UCC
Dr James Kapalo (Senior Lecturer Study of Religions Department) and Dr Gabriela Nicolescu (Postdoctoral Researchers Hidden Galleries project) have opened an exhibition featuring materials and items collected and analysed as part of the ERC funded Hidden Galleries project on Friday 9th October 2020 in the Boole Library, UCC. The exhibition will run from October 9th until March 31st 2021, Boole Library, University College Cork
Find Out MoreHidden Galleries Exhibition now open in the Boole Library, UCC
Dr James Kapalo (Senior Lecturer Study of Religions Department) and Dr Gabriela Nicolescu (Postdoctoral Researchers Hidden Galleries project) have opened an exhibition featuring materials and items collected and analysed as part of the ERC funded Hidden Galleries project on Friday 9th October 2020 in the Boole Library, UCC. The exhibition will run from October 9th until March 31st 2021, Boole Library, University College Cork
Find Out MoreMeet the CACSSS Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Colleen Taylor - School of English & Digital Humanities
Colleen Taylor joins UCC after earning her PhD from Boston College, where she researched and taught eighteenth-century British and Irish literature. Her work has appeared in journals such as Eire-Ireland, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, and Persuasions, and the essay collection Ireland, Enlightenment, and the English Stage
Find Out MoreDr Alba Montes Sánchez -School of Society, Politics and Ethics
Alba Montes Sánchez is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at UCC’s Philosophy Department. Her research focuses on the philosophy of emotions and moral psychology, at the intersection of philosophy of mind and phenomenology. She earned her PhD from Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain) with a dissertation on the moral significance of shame, and thereafter worked as a postdoc at the Center for Subjectivity Research (University of Copenhagen, Denmark).
Find Out MoreDr Peter Griffith - School of the Human Environment
A graduate of U.C.C.; Having completed my PhD in Palaeoecology at the University of Cambridge. My research focuses on synthesising habitat reconstructions and archaeological records to help clarify the selective pressures experienced by MSA groups
Find Out MoreDr. Inês Bento Coelho - School of Film, Music and Theatre
As an artist-researcher, her practice focusses on the intersections between choreographic approaches and installation art within site-responsive contexts. Her research interests include artistic research pedagogies, artistic doctorates, methodologies, research skills, professional practices, contemporary choreography, site and place, performativity, site-dance, minimalism and installation art.
Find Out MoreDr Eugene Costello - School of The Human Environment
Dr Eugene Costello is an archaeologist and historian interested in marginalised peoples and places, particularly rural areas of north-west Europe. Having earned a BA at UCC and an MA at University of Sheffield, he completed a PhD in 2016 at NUI Galway funded by Irish Research Council and Hardiman scholarships. Since then, he has held a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship at University of Notre Dame and a postdoctoral fellowship in environmental humanities at Stockholm University
Find Out MoreDr Steven Gamble - School Of Film, Music & Theatre
Dr. Steven Gamble is a Marie Curie Research Fellow in Music at University College Cork, researching digital-native hip-hop. He is the author of How Music Empowers: Listening to Modern Rap and Metal (Routledge, 2021). He is an active member of European popular music studies communities, having published work in Popular Music, the Journal on the Art of Record Production, and Metal Music Studies (where he serves on the editorial advisory board).
Dr Edward Molloy
Edward was awarded his PhD from Queen's University Belfast for his doctoral thesis entitled 'Race, History, Nationality: An Intellectual History of the Young Ireland movement 1842-52'. Previously, he studied at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he received a distinction in the MA programme in Postcolonial Culture and Global Policy
Find Out MoreDr Jason Ng - School Of Film, Music & Theatre
Dr David Browne - School Of Film, Music & Theatre
Dr James Louis Smith - School Of English And Digital Humanities
Dr Lisa Murphy - School Of Applied Psychology
Dr Reana Maier - ISS21
Dr. Reana Maier is a Canadian academic who recently moved to Ireland to take up a postdoctoral researcher position at UCC in the Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st Century. She previously held a postdoc in the Department of Sociology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.
Find Out MoreDr Tim Groenland - School of English
Dr Tim Groenland’s research focuses on the role of literary editors in twentieth- and twenty-first century American fiction
Find Out MoreDr Margaret Brehony - School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
A psychology graduate from NUIG, Dr Margaret Brehony has an MA in Culture and Colonialism and a PhD in Irish Studies from NUIG. She also has an MA in Digital Arts and Humanities from UCC.
Find Out MoreDr Vasilis Vasiliou - School of Applied Psychology
My research focuses primarily on developing pragmatic behaviour change interventions for chronic health problems and young at-risk populations, informed by contemporary Health Psychology paradigms.
Find Out MoreDr Gabriel Lins De Holanda Coelho - School of Applied Psychology
I am working in the Food Allergy Coping and Emotions Scales (FACES) project, funded through the National Children’s Research Centre.
Find Out MoreDr Riona Doolan - School of Irish Learning
Dr Katherine Bond - School of History
Katherine Bond is an IRC Government of Ireland postdoctoral fellow with the School of History whose research centres on early modern visual and material culture, dress, and ethnography.
Find Out MoreDr Guido Bartolini - School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Dr Guido Bartolini studied at University of Florence and University of Oxford and completed an AHRC funded doctorate at Royal Holloway University of London on the Italian cultural memory of World War II. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Italian Literature of the Axis War: Memories of Self-Absolution and the Quest for Responsibility
Find Out MoreDr Ana Stefanovska - School Of Languages Literatures &Culture
Dr Davide Boerio Arts, Celtic Studies & Soc.Sciences
Dr Emma Penney - School Of English And Digital Humanities
Dr Rahat Imran - School of Film, Music and Theatre
My project will break new ground as the first comprehensive study of Muslim women filmmakers’ first-person documentary and auto/biographical cinemas from the Muslim world
Find Out MoreDr Warrick Moses - School Of Film, Music & Theatre
Dr Mary King - School Of Film, Music & Theatre
Dr Jennifer Arnold - School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Find Out MoreDr Alba - Montes Sanchez - School Of Society, Politics And Ethics
Dr Ailbhe McDaid - School of English
Stories of action dominate our understanding of the literature of conflict. What though of the experiences of civilians, most often women and children on the domestic front, who are psychologically, practically and politically affected by war?
Find Out MoreDr David Bowe - School of Languages, Literature and Cultures
David Bowe is interested in medieval Italian literature and the ways it travels beyond Italy and beyond the middle ages.
Find Out MoreDr Valentina Mere - School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Valentina received her BA in Italian Literature and her MA in Philology from the Università degli Studi di Padova, during which time she spent a year at the University of Warwick as a visiting student. My research will examine the main textual strategies contributing to the encoding of the first-person position in the Rime and compare them with the most important poets of the Italian love lyric tradition up to Petrarch. In reassessing Cavalcanti’s role within the lyric canon, my research will lay the foundations for future investigations of Cavalcanti’s reception in the early-modern, modern, and postmodern periods.
Find Out MoreDr Valeria Venditti - School of Society, Politics and Ethics
This project explores a paradox that arises when human rights provide a solution to certain cases of social injustice.
Find Out MoreDr Jonathan Evershed - School of English and Digital Humanities
Jonathan Evershed is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Ports, Past and Present project at University College Cork.
Find Out MoreDr Monica O'Mulane - ISS 21
Monica will explore gender equality in Irish higher education through qualitative research on Athena SWAN, a gender equality programme which seeks to promote good practice in retaining and promoting women in science and research.
Find Out MoreDr Mark Cullinane - School of Applied Social Studies
He holds a PhD in Social Science from UCC. Mark is contributing to an Irish Research Council-funded study on local participatory governance in Ireland.
Find Out MoreDr Nicola Bidwell - School of Applied Psychology
Dr Walther Camaro - School Of Human Env Geog Arch & Classics
Dr Robert Bolton - School of Applied Social Studies
Is currently a postdoctoral researcher based in the School of Applied Social Studies, working on the Living Well with the Dead in Contemporary Ireland project
Find Out MoreDr Lijuan Qian - Film Music and Theatre
My project will contribute fresh knowledge on the maintenance of threatened culture heritage by building on recent theoretical advances in applied ethnomusicology.
Find Out MoreDr Alexandra Revez - Society, Politics and Ethics
Alexandra Revez is a Senior Post Doctoral Researcher with Imagining2050 (2018-2020). Her work has concentrated on key public participation issues linked to environmental, disaster management and social care policy.
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