Professors

These positions are being filled as part of UCC Futures - Future Pharmaceuticals

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 Pharmaceuticals is a once in a generation opportunity to create a research ecosystem that will maximise the potential of our academic expertise and provide tangible, impactful, solutions in response to the most important global challenges of our time.

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Senior Lecturers

These positions are being filled as part of UCC Futures - Future Pharmaceuticals.

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 Pharmaceuticals is a once in a generation opportunity to create a research ecosystem that will maximise the potential of our academic expertise and provide tangible, impactful, solutions in response to the most important global challenges of our time.

Posts closed for application

Lecturers

These positions are being filled as part of UCC Futures - Future Pharmaceuticals.

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 Pharmaceuticals is a once in a generation opportunity to create a research ecosystem that will maximise the potential of our academic expertise and provide tangible, impactful, solutions in response to the most important global challenges of our time.

Posts closed 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 

• Top 1.1% of universities in the world
• 1st in Ireland for Graduate Employability
• 1st in Ireland for Access
• 7th most sustainable university in the world
• €421m annual income
  • €100m 1st in Ireland for research income
• 3,000 academic, research, administrative and technical staff
  • 1/3 of academic staff from overseas
• 200,000 alumni worldwide
• 24,111 registered students
  • 17,027 undergraduates
  • 7,084 postgraduates
  • 4,357 international students from 104 countries
  • 2,343 adult and continuing education students
• 53 clubs and 106 societies

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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