Youth Engagement in European Language Preservation, 1900-2020

UCD-led ERC project to preserve and protect historical regional languages. The project focuses on youth involvement in language preservation of three minority languages (Irish, Welsh and Catalan) through educational, historical, and literary approaches, while also engaging with youths themselves.

Creative Futures Academy

UCD Arts and Humanities €10m partnership project with IADT and NCAD funded by the Higher Education Authority’s Human Capital Initiative. Bringing thinkers and leaders from academia and industry together to support and shape the professional growth, reach and impact of the creative and cultural sectors. 

Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000

Funded by a Wellcome Trust, this project investigates topics that resonate with current concerns in the prison service, including mental health, the health of women and maternity services, and responses to addiction and HIV/AIDS. 

Cultural Imaginaries of Just Transitions

This project puts the frameworks of 'just transitions' into dialogue with the critical and literary insights of humanities scholars, to unpick what cultural imaginaries might aid in generating a sustainable and just society. Examining interdisciplinary approaches to the transformation of “nature-society” through new cultural forms. 

CSAreps

ERC-funded project investigating the culturally significant yet neglected body of fictional works that depict Child Sexual Abuse (CSA). The project aims to illuminate how such works may shape public understanding, which in turn affect CSA prevention efforts and survivors’ health outcomes.

Mindreading

UCD-led collaboration with the University of Birmingham and St Anne’s College, Oxford, with the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. This project explores the patient experience through the prism of literature and personal narrative to inform self-care and patient-centred care. It also supports clinicians, while investigating interactions between literature and medicine. 

SouthHem

ERC-funded project examining the relationship between settler and indigenous literary cultures in the British-controlled Southern Hemisphere and Straits Settlements from 1780-1870. The literatures considered include writing in English, translations into English, transcriptions, and writing in languages of origin. 

Bugs and Drugs

Interdisciplinary group of researchers based at UCD, exploring the entangled microbial and macrobial worlds around us. Studying the cultural and biological history of major pathogens like typhoid, the evolution of pharmaceutical research and development, and the networks and infrastructures of global microbial surveillance.

FLEXI

ERC project investigating how law texts were (re)produced, studied, and transmitted in mediaeval Ireland. This ground-breaking attempt to synthesise philology, comparative legal history, network theories, and digital techniques will revolutionise the research of mediaeval law texts, offering a digital solution to the processing of early Irish texts and revealing intertextual relationships hidden from the human eye.

UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics

A coherent research ecosystem for the digital humanities, supporting ongoing collaboration, hosting international networks and incubating new projects. 

Landspeaks

UCD Centre for Canadian Studies and Ireland Canada University Foundation led community of engagement, supporting partnerships in the areas of culture, language preservation and reclamation, environmental care, and processes of peace and reconciliation, for the benefit of our communities, wider societies, and the planet.

UCD Humanities Institute

Showcasing the distinctive interdisciplinary research in the humanities at UCD, providing a laboratory for the study of culture and the human experience.

Cultural Industries Report informs policy plans for all-island collaboration

National Folklore Collection at UCD recognised by UNESCO for its world significance

Multifaceted research project influences public debate on the mental health crisis in prisons

UCD and the NLI establish the first Museum of Literature in Ireland

Prof Regina Uí Chollatáin

Dean of UCD College of Arts and Humanities, Chair of Foras na Gaeilge, President of the Global Irish Diaspora Congress and a member of the MoLI Academic Advisory Board and the Irish Folklore Council.

Prof Anne Enright

Full Professor of Creative Writing at UCD School of English, Drama and Film, award-winning author of seven novels, two books of short stories and a book of essays about motherhood.

Dr Fangzhe Qiu

Ad Astra Fellow at UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore, specialist in Celtic historical linguistics, with a special focus on the development of the Old Irish language, Early Irish law, and early Irish literature, PI of FLEXI. 

Dr Nicholas Pillai

UCD's academic lead for the Creative Futures Academy, Assistant Professor of Creative and Critical Practice at UCD School of English, Drama and Film.

Dr Victoria Durrer

Ad Astra Fellow at UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy, specialising in cultural policy with a focus on publicly-engaged research. Co-founder of the all-island research network, Cultural Policy Observatory Ireland.

Prof Catherine Cox

VP for Research, Innovation and Impact, College of Arts and Humanities, Director of UCD Centre for the History of Medicine, PI for 'Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000'.

Dr Paul Perry

Award-winning and critically acclaimed author of poetry and prose, Director of the UCD Creative Writing MA Programme.

Prof Margaret Kelleher

Professor and Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at UCD School of English, Drama and Film and board member of the Museum of Literature Ireland, specialised in contemporary Irish fiction, digital humanities and literary studies.

Dr Ailise Bulfin

Literary and cultural scholar at UCD School of English, Drama and Film, research ranges from 19th century to contemporary culture, with particular interests in cultural representations of major social issues and their reception, PI of CSAReps.

Prof PJ Matthews

Founding member and Director of the Creative Futures Academy at UCD, Associate Professor of Irish Literature and Culture, leads the Engaged Creativity research strand for the College of Arts and Humanities, and is Chair of the UCD Council of Creative Fellows.

Sree Sen

Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe

Grace Wilentz

Disha Bose

Sarah Gilmartin