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CACSSS Researchers recognised at the UCC Research Awards 2022
Researchers from all career stages in the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences joined with colleagues from across the University to have their achievements recognised in the UCC Research and Innovation Awards on 1 June in the Glucksman Galler
The ceremony was addressed by guest of honour Professor Philp Nolan of Maynooth University and Director of SFI who spoke of the importance of supporting all forms of frontier research across STEM and AHSS in tackling key contemporary societal challenges.
Speaking before the award ceremony to staff across the University, the Vice President for Research and Innovation Professor John Cryan noted that awardees were researchers who have made exceptional and very influential research contributions, pushing boundaries, enhancing knowledge and raising the national and international profile of University College Cork.
The UCC Research Awards are about celebrating our excellence in Research & Innovation. UCC is a research intensive university and these awards are about acknowledging the outstanding contributions made by our researchers locally, nationally and globally.
CACSSS recipients included individual and team-based awards, highlighting the excellent standards of research being undertaken as well as the collaborative and collegial manner by which staff in the College work to maintain these high standards.
2021 UCC Research Awards for staff in CACSSS:
- Early Career Researcher of the Year – Dr Carlos Garrido – School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
- Best publication of the Year involving an Undegraduate student as an author 2021 - Jennifer Murphy and Dr Hillary Jenkins - School of Applied Social Studies
- President’s Award for Research Impacting the Sustainable Development Goals 2021 – Dr Ger Mulally and the Imagining 2050 project (incl. Dr Clodagh Harris) – School of Society, Politics and Ethics
- Vice President for Research & Innovation Award for Interdisciplinary Research 2021 – Prof Padraig O’Machain & Dr Daniella Iacopino - School of Irish Learning & Tyndall