UCC Futures Explained
UCC Futures provides the creative, inclusive and transformative interdisciplinary platform that mines the frontiers of curious inquiry at the intersection of disciplines. This ambitious programme of research prioritisation coupled with an innovative academic recruitment strategy across ten thematic areas of strategic importance is building a foundation for economic, societal and cultural resilience and prosperity.
UCC Futures values excellence at every level in a truly connected knowledge ecosystem, enhancing the interdisciplinary collaborative environment to inspire, engage, and enable our research community, in partnership within the co-located clinical and enterprise ecosystem. We are creating a consciously better society through embedding the excellence of our research within our curriculum and ensuring our students are taught by world class research leaders within this connected knowledge ecosystem.
Professor John O'Halloran
"UCC is a vibrant community of diverse and independent thought leaders with a shared ambition to be a connected university with excellent research at its heart. Enabling the development of novel interdisciplinary research is a core objective of our Strategic Plan 2023 - 2028 - Securing our Future.
UCC Futures exemplifies this objective as we seek transformative, disruptive research leaders to connect research across disciplinary boundaries, create knowledge and translate research into sustainable benefits and value for society.
Transformative research will inform UCC’s research-led Connected Curriculum, and deliver greater specialisation and renowned postgraduate programmes, positioning us as the university of choice for postgraduate study in signature areas of excellence.
UCC Futures will foster collaboration and partnership, enabling our researchers to respond with agility to evolving circumstance and opportunity. UCC Futures is one of several measures that will support us to thrive and to secure a sustainable future for our university, our people and our planet."
Professor John F. Cryan
"UCC will lead and continue to create a research environment that is able to respond with agility to global societal challenges. Indeed, our world-class Research Centres and flagship Tyndall National Institute have been magnets for researchers to come to Cork and their impact shows the value of bringing together disciplines on a scale for the benefit of our society.
UCC Futures will build on this success to accelerate research, connecting disciplines to generate an environment of creativity, curiosity and critical thinking that enables a more just and inclusive future.
The facilitation of innovative interdisciplinary synergies will inspire, engage and enable our researchers to create the future. UCC welcomes researchers who think radically, are inclusive and connect diversity of thought for maximum, sustainable, economic, societal and cultural resilience and prosperity.
UCC Futures will provide the positive and transformative environment to secure our collective futures through excellence in research and innovation."
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