The authors of the papers in the journal were challenged to communicate their research through short articles which would be accessible to the widest possible non-specialist audience.  The articles describe research in a wide range of disciplines in highly accessible style, and bring the students’ research to life in a way which is intended to be understandable and informative to audiences within and outside UCC, including the general public, employers, the media and anyone with an interest in the research topics described.  The student authors come from every College of UCC, and topics included range from the life of medieval Irish saints to transportation in the quantum world, and subjects as diverse as land and justice in South Africa and communication in the brain during Alzheimer’s disease.

Professor Alan Kelly, Dean of Graduate Studies, speaking at the launch, thanked all the students and staff involved in the journal, and described it as a major new development in graduate education at UCC, through which the students had gained a wealth of new skills and experience, leaning to share their specialist academic work with audiences far beyond their academic discipline.

Also speaking at the launch, Professor Des MacHale of the School of Mathematical Sciences at UCC congratulated the students on the clarity and quality of the pieces, and the way in which the students had succeeded in the very difficult challenge of making their work readable and interesting for the general reader, and welcomed another highly appropriate tribute to the legacy of George Boole.

To read the articles, or obtain further information, please visit the web-site above, or contact Professor Alan Kelly at a.kelly@ucc.ie

Picture L-R: Professor Alan Kelly, Professor Des MacHale, Dr Orla Murphy and Professor Graham Allen

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