UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures (CSF) is a globally networked interdisciplinary platform and collegiate community committed to advancing, supporting and showcasing the Social Sciences at UCC through world-leading theoretical, blue skies, creative, socially engaged and psycho -social research that is policy-oriented and has  impact.

Collective Social Futures is premised upon the fact that in order to address global, social and environmental challenges we need the inter-disciplinary Social Sciences because the Social Sciences are key to understanding the mutual interdependencies that underpin the complex social worlds in which we live.

Collective Social Futures examines and addresses key societal global challenges through better knowledge and understanding in order to re-imagine and enact our Collective Social Futures. 

Collective Social Futures positions UCC as a thought leader in re-imagining alternative social futures, by bringing exciting ideas from the social sciences into conversation with scientific knowledge and public discourse; and developing innovative methods of meaningful co-production with communities and organisations beyond the university. CSF research is oriented towards social action, social impact and social transformation. 

CSF is an incubator and catalyst for the generation and dissemination of (i) innovation in the ways in which society is understood and imagined; (ii) participatory and creative methods of meaningful co-production with communities, civil society stakeholders and academic partners; and (iii) knowledge oriented towards social action and transformation.

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