What is UCC Futures - Future Medicines?
UCC Futures - Future Medicines combines a multidisciplinary team of renowned world leading scientists, engineers and clinician investigators at University College Cork (UCC) and affiliated hospitals to deliver high-impact, transformational, next generation medicines and medical technologies.
It leverages the expertise and infrastructure across multiple schools in UCC’s College of Medicine and Health, in addition to UCC Research Centres and Institutes including APC Microbiome Ireland and our flagship Tyndall National Institute. This unique translational environment will become a magnet for inward SME and MNC investment to the region especially across the biopharma, healthcare and medtech sectors.
UCC Futures - Future Medicines is creating step-change advancements in earlier detection, faster prognosis and targeted treatments to reduce the global health burden and improve quality-of-life for patients with chronic conditions, such as cancer, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, neurological, and inflammatory diseases.
Applications Open
Applications are currently sought for a number of positions that support the ambitions of UCC Futures - Future Medicines, including researchers with broader interests including qualitative research skills that define the wider implications of our work.
The appointment of researchers of excellence, from Lecturer to Professor, will connect disciplines and research excellence across the University, mapping to existing research strengths within the College of Medicine and Health, College of Science, Engineering and Food Science and our flagship Tyndall National Institute, among others.
Applications are particularly welcome from those with a disruptive and transformative research focus.
Explore the posts below for more information on the posts and who to contact for informal enquiries for each.
Professors
These positions are being filled as part of UCC Futures - Future Medicines
UCC Futures is an ambitious new programme of research prioritisation, coupled with an innovative academic recruitment strategy spanning 10 strategically important indicative areas encompassing the humanities, arts, social sciences, STEM, health, business and law.
UCC Futures - Future Medicines is a once in a generation opportunity to generate an ecosystem that will maximise the potential of our academic expertise and provide tangible, impactful, solutions in response to one of the most important global challenges of our time.
Posts open for application
Senior Lecturers
These positions are being filled as part of UCC Futures - Future Medicines.
UCC Futures is an ambitious new programme of research prioritisation, coupled with an innovative academic recruitment strategy spanning 10 strategically important indicative areas encompassing the humanities, arts, social sciences, STEM, health, business and law.
UCC Futures - Future Medicines is a once in a generation opportunity to generate an ecosystem that will maximise the potential of our academic expertise and provide tangible, impactful, solutions in response to one of the most important global challenges of our time.
Posts open for application
Lecturers
These positions are being filled as part of UCC Futures - Future Medicines.
UCC Futures is an ambitious new programme of research prioritisation, coupled with an innovative academic recruitment strategy spanning 10 strategically important indicative areas encompassing the humanities, arts, social sciences, STEM, health, business and law.
UCC Futures - Future Medicines is a once in a generation opportunity to generate an ecosystem that will maximise the potential of our academic expertise and provide tangible, impactful, solutions in response to one of the most important global challenges of our time.
Posts open for applications
Welcome from the President
Many thanks for your interest in a career at University College Cork (UCC).
UCC is one of Ireland’s oldest institutions of higher education. Our historic campus is situated in a UNESCO Learning City and global tourist destination, and serves a community that is both local and global. In 2021, UCC was ranked 8th in the world for impact by the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, and has been named Sunday Times Irish University of the Year a record breaking five times. In 2010, UCC was the first third level education institution worldwide to receive the Green Campus award, and we still proudly fly our Green Flag over the magnificent quad following continued successful renewals. UCC has held a top ten place in the UI GreenMetric World University Rankings since 2010 and is now ranked 9th in the world for sustainability. UCC has held a bronze Athena SWAN award since 2016, and nine Schools and Departments hold departmental-level awards at bronze level.
UCC is the leading Irish university for Industry collaboration and is the leading Irish university for seeking and securing investment in Research and Development. Several leading Irish Research Centres and Institutes are based in UCC including Tyndall National Institute, APC Microbiome Ireland, Environmental Research Institute (ERI), and the Centre for Marine Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI) and ISS21.
UCC is the top higher institution in Ireland for Graduate Employability and our alumni excel in every walk of life across the world. Our true strength lies in the people who work and study here and UCC’s student body of almost 23,000 includes over 4,000 international students from more than 100 countries across all continents. Of the almost 3,000 professionals employed at UCC, over one third of academic staff have come from overseas. UCC is a university of inclusion, and the diversity of our staff and students is key to realising our mission to “create, understand and share knowledge and apply it for the good of all”. As we build on our 175-year history and work to secure our future, we remain a student-centred, connected university, committed to sustainability, community, and international engagement and to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
This briefing pack contains information which I hope will be useful and informative should you be selected to attend for interview here in Cork. I trust that your experience of our recruitment process will be a positive one and I thank you, again, for considering a career at University College Cork.
Best wishes,
Professor John O’Halloran