Organisation profile
Organisation Overview
The greatest global challenge of our time requires us to find equitable, sustainable and just solutions to the problems of climate change, hunger, poverty and social and health disparities among the world’s populations. The complexity of these global challenges requires experts from multiple disciplines and sectors to think radically and collaborate in new and re-imagined ways.
UCC Futures provides the creative, inclusive and transformative interdisciplinary platform that mines the frontiers of curious inquiry at the intersection of disciplines. This ambitious programme of research prioritisation coupled with an innovative academic recruitment strategy across ten thematic areas of strategic importance is building a foundation for economic, societal and cultural resilience and prosperity.
UCC Futures values excellence at every level in a truly connected knowledge ecosystem, enhancing the interdisciplinary collaborative environment to inspire, engage, and enable our research community, in partnership within the co-located clinical and enterprise ecosystem. We are creating a consciously better society through embedding the excellence of our research within our curriculum and ensuring our students are taught by world class research leaders within this connected knowledge ecosystem.
Consolidating talent and potential, 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.
- UCC Futures - Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics
- UCC Futures - Children
- UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures
- UCC Futures - Food, Microbiome and Health
- UCC Futures - Future Ageing and Brain Science
- UCC Futures - Future Humanities Institute
- UCC Futures - Future Medicines
- UCC Futures - Future Pharmaceuticals
- UCC Futures - Quantum and Photonics
- UCC Futures - Sustainability Institute
- UCC Futures Strategic Research Centres
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Homogenisation of Vegetation in Irish Semi-Natural Grasslands
Lynch Milner, O., Wingler, A., Cawkwell, F. & Bacon, K. L., Mar 2026, In: Ecology and Evolution. 16, 3, e73231.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Leapfrogging inequality? Navigating a pathway to cleaner energy in rural Ghana
Boateng, D., Lennon, B., Bloomer, J., Morrissey, J. & Dunphy, N., 9 Apr 2026, In: Journal of Cleaner Production. 557, 148231.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Optimising submarine cable routes from offshore wind farms
Walsh, K., Holloway, P. & Lim, A., 2026, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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Future Humanities Institute Launch
Rogers, R. (Speaker)
23 Apr 2026Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Towards more human(e) stakeholder engagements around energy
Lennon, B. (Speaker)
24 Jul 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Photography-History-Hallucination
Thomas, K. (Speaker)
15 Jan 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Prizes
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Horizon Europe Research Funding Award for iNNO SED project (420 000 Euro)
Kopke, K. (Recipient), 1 Sep 2024
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Press/Media
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Cop30: Irish experts fear the world won’t have the ambition to tackle climate change
10/11/25
1 item of Media coverage
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