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Dr JC Macarie, Research Fellow

Dr JC Macarie is Principal Investigator of a major new project which explores nightwork and night-time economies in five cities, spanning Ireland, Great Britain, mainland Europe and Canada. Nightwork_Footprint (2025-2029) is funded through the Research Ireland Pathways Programme.

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EUROBORDERWALKS - Walking Borders, Risk, and Belonging

Funded through the IRC Advanced Laureate Awards (2023-2026), this ground-breaking project will use ethnographic and arts based biographical approaches to conduct 'bottom up' research across three significant European borders: Poland/Ukraine; Bosnia-Herzegovina/Croatia; and Northern Ireland/Republic of Ireland.

The project team is lead by Professor Maggie O’Neill (PI), Dept. Sociology & Criminology, ISS21/Collective Social Futures.

Image: Tomasz Ferenc.
(Motanka - traditional Ukrainian dolls).

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UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures

ISS21 is lead partner in UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures.
UCC Futures supports the delivery of superior quality in research, scholarship, and the translation of research to tangible impact on the world across ten thematic areas.

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