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Des Fitzgerald

Professor (Scale 2)

 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1899-8481
20132025

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Biography

I'm Professor of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences at UCC, where I'm based in the Radical Humanities Laboratory, and in the Department of Sociology & Criminology. My research interests lie broadly in the historical sociology of the brain and mind sciences; my two most recent books are 'The Urban Brain' (with Nikolas Rose, Princeton University Press, 2023) and 'The City of Today is a Dying Thing' (Faber & Faber, 2024). My current book project, 'Birth Weight' is a set of personal essays on the themes of reproduction, self-harm, and memory, to be published by Faber & Faber in 2027. I am a graduate of University College Cork (BA), the University of Cambridge (MPhil) and the London School of Economics (PhD). I won the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Sociology in 2017, and my work has been supported by the Wellcome Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the Volkswagen Foundation and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) among others.

Research Interests

Sociology of psychology and neuroscience, history and sociology of urban mental health, critical approaches to nature and green space.

UCC Futures (primary)

  • Future Humanities Institute

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