CACSSS and ISS21 researchers lead in securing IRC New Foundations funding

Researchers from CACSSS and the Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century (ISS21) have been awarded a more than €90,000 in funding in awards from the Irish Research Council (IRC) New Foundations call. Six of the eight UCC awardees are based in CACSSS or linked to ISS21, other awardees in the University are based in the College of Medicine and Health and the College of Business and Law.

The CACSSS and ISS21 linked awardees are:

  • Professor Cathal O’Connell (ISS21 and Applied Social Studies) for the project Combatting and eliminating long term homelessness in Cork. Alongside Cork Simon the team will identify groups of homeless people in Cork who are not covered by welfare measures such as Housing First and assist in designing more inclusive strategies for the fight against homelessness in the city.
  • Professor Fred Powell (ISS21 and Applied Social Studies) for the project Youth Volunteering: building capacity for the future. In partnership with the National Youth Council of Ireland and the Cork Volunteer Centre, the project will deliver a toolkit that will help volunteer organisations create volunteer programmes for young people
  • Carol Kelleher (ISS21 and Marketing and Management) for the project Developing a Public Patient Involvement (PPI) panel of Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes. Collaborating with Cork University Hospital (CUH), this project will establish, train and partner with a panel of adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes to co-lead, co-design and co-evaluate research at CUH paediatric diabetes clinic, using best practice public and patient involvement approaches.
  • Cliona Loughnane (ISS21) for the project Towards a feminist framework for older women and care. With the assistance of the National Women’s Council, the project will co-create principles for a future model of care across different care settings with older women, care providers and policymakers.
  • Shirley Martin (ISS21 and Applied Social Studies) for the project Volunteer recognition. The project team will develop a set of questions on volunteering for the Irish census, based on a review of the literature, consultation with experts and stakeholders, and testing and piloting of the draft questions.
  • Tracey Skillington (Sociology and Criminology) for the project Making wild lives matter. This project will explore the ways in which local representations of wildlife as culturally familiar symbols of shared city life, offer a means of situating biodiversity and sustainable development imperatives more firmly within everyday public reasoning and increasing receptivity to climate action goals.

The 2022 New Foundations, awarded at total of 67 New Foundations projects that reach communities across the country and beyond, focusing on diverse societal challenges and government policy issues. A number (43) of these projects will enhance research partnerships with civic society organisations, and 20 projects are funded by government departments and agencies, the final 4 are funded by a charity.

In a press release announcing the funding Director of the Irish Research Council, Dr Louise Callinan commented that “[w]hile New Foundations awards are relatively modest in value, they play a vital role in supporting and nurturing our research talent, providing an important step on the funding ladder to further awards nationally and internationally.”

More details including a full list of awardees is available here.

 

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