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Collective Social Futures Interdisciplinary Research Fund Awards
Informed by the need to respond to emerging and changing societal challenges locally and globally, this seed-funding scheme is aimed at bottom-up initiatives and collaborative interdisciplinary work led by Social Science researchers. Click on the links below to find out more about projects funded through this scheme in recent years.
2024-2025 Awards
| Project Title | Project PI |
|---|---|
| Dr Elizabeth Kiely, Applied Social Studies | |
| The Rise of Parliament. Examining the use of the private members’ bill as a tool | Dr Liam Weeks, Government & Politics |
| Re-imagining Care of and for University Legacy Medical Collections. | Dr Órla O'Donovan, Applied Social Studies |
| FirstDrops: Soma Design to Encourage Colostrum Harvesting for New Parents. | Dr Kellie Morrissey, Applied Psychology |
| Building Inclusive Futures: Establishing a Trans Research Agenda through Collaborative Engagement in Ireland | Dr Kevin Hosford, Sociology & Criminology |
| Knowing the North? How we know and interpret the past: Cross-disciplinary approaches to dealing with difficult, recent pasts in the North of Ireland. | Professor Laura McAtackney, Archaeology |
2023-2024 Awards
Dementia Lifeworlds PI: Prof. Kieran Keohane (Department of Sociology and Criminology)
Visualising Transformative Justice Together PI: Dr Katharina Swirak (Department of Sociology and Criminology)
Collective Social Futures Institute
Contact us
- collectivesocialfutures@ucc.ie
- Professor Maggie O'Neill, Director of Collective Social Futures Institute