⭐ The 2025 UCC Research and Innovation Awards
📅 Nominations close at 5pm on Friday March 27th 2026
ℹ️ The @universitycollegecork Research & Innovation Awards celebrate the exceptional work of our research community and the value it brings to the University and to wider society. These awards acknowledge colleagues whose research, innovation and entrepreneurial activities push boundaries, advance knowledge and enhance UCC’s research profile nationally and internationally.
🏆 There are 22 award categories, recognising achievements of researchers and entrepreneurs across the entire research ecosystem, from the calendar year 2025. This year, three new categories will recognise research and innovation excellence in the areas of Research Culture, Global Research Engagement and Industry Research Collaboration.
The UCC Research & Innovation awards are kindly sponsored by PURDYLUCEY, one of Ireland’s top European Intellectual Property firms working in the UK, US, European & international markets.
💻 Apply here ——> https://www.ucc.ie/en/researchandinnovation/awards/
Researchers at @universitycollegecork have received funding to lead a major new €6 million European project that will revolutionise how adolescents and young adults across Europe understand and manage the long-term effects of testicular cancer.
A new photographic portrait of 50 women leaders in Ireland, featuring University College Cork palaeontologist Professor Maria McNamara, has been unveiled at Trinity College Dublin.
Entitled the School of Hibernia, the image features an all-female cast of prominent artists, social activists, sports figures, and scholars, including first female Irish president, Mary Robinson; first woman president of the Royal Irish Academy, Mary E Daly; writer Melatu Uche Okorie; and consultant neurologist Professor Orla Hardiman. The re-creation of an icon of Renaissance art aims to challenge patriarchal attitudes to knowledge and education as well as the art history canon.
The portrait is a re-enactment of The School of Athens, a famous fresco painted by the classical artist Raphael in The Vatican between 1509 and 1511. The original fresco includes 50 male figures that represent important philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists of the day.
The painting is considered the quintessential symbol of classical knowledge and education during the Renaissance. It also endorsed the Greek educational system that persisted in Europe for centuries, whereby privileged white European men presided over educational directions and priorities for over 500 years. These male characters are replaced by women in the Irish portrait.
Nominations are now open for the @universitycollegecork Research & Innovation Awards 2023.
These awards recognise excellence in research and innovation, acknowledging the outstanding achievements of UCC’s research and innovation community.
A new study led by Professor Roisin Connolly reveals that a breast cancer drug combination has impact on other cancers.
The drug combination shrank tumours in patients with several other types of cancer, new research published today finds.
University College Cork is the highest performing institute in funding awards announced today by the Environmental Research Agency in their 2023 Research Call Awards.
8 UCC researchers have been awarded funding of €3.7m to address climate and environmental challenges.
Three UCC Geography researchers awarded €1.75m to address climate and environmental challenges
A new technology to protect vulnerable coastal habitats 🌊
An all-island climate action partnership to implement adaptation actions 🌍
A project to safeguard freshwater resources 💧
Congratulations to Dr Paul Holloway, Dr Aaron Lim and Dr Michelle McKeown who have received funding of €1.75m from the Environmental Protection Agency @epaireland Research Call Awards.
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UCC researcher to explore the impact of remote working hubs on rural areas
University College Cork (UCC) researcher Dr Mary O’Shaughnessy has been awarded a prestigious funding award by The Royal Society of Edinburgh to investigate the impact of remote working hubs on rural areas, using lessons and recommendations from the Irish remote working hub experience to explore what a similar network might offer in a Scottish context.
UCC Futures - Future Ageing and Brain Science is dedicated to advancing the understanding of brain disorders and of ageing, to promoting healthy ageing, and to improving diagnosis, prevention and treatment of age-related disorders.
Building upon UCC’s existing research excellence and infrastructure, UCC Futures - Future Ageing and Brain Science will advance the development of groundbreaking discoveries and technologies, responding to the challenges of brain disorders and diseases of ageing.
UCC Futures - Future Ageing & Brain Science will partner with communities, healthcare and industry, in a focused collaborative research effort to improve outcomes and quality-of-life for all individuals and for our society.
https://www.ucc.ie/futures/ageingandbrainscience/
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Early-career researchers University College Cork are amongst the first cohort of fellows to be awarded funding through the DOROTHY Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND programme.
Dr Vuslat Juska and Dr Asit Kumar Mishra
receive a combined €443,000 in funding.
Fellowships will have an international outgoing phase of 18 months, hosted at a Higher Education Institution or Research Performing Organisation outside Ireland, followed by a return phase of 18 months to a HEI within Ireland. Nationally, six awardees have embarked on 36-month postdoctoral fellowships.
These UCC funded projects align with the key research thematic areas of Sustainability and Future Ageing and Brain Science in the UCC Futures framework.
