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Three people stand in a field of wildflowers. One person in the foreground on the left has their arm raised. Another person in the middle is holding a guitar and facing away. A third person is in the background on the right.

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Explore the Future Humanities Institute

The Future Humanities Institute (FHI), a UCC Futures Institute, is an ambitious and interdisciplinary research community dedicated to understanding and shaping the human dimensions of today’s most pressing global challenges. We advance this mission through our Radical Humanities Laboratory, which supports innovative and exploratory approaches to contemporary questions, and through our interdisciplinary research clusters, which focus collective expertise on key areas of cultural, social and environmental concern. Through applied imagination, methodological innovation and engagement with communities, policymakers and partners, we develop ideas that open pathways to more just, sustainable and creative futures. A key pillar of UCC’s Futures Framework, the FHI serves as both a development catalyst and an advocacy hub. It champions the bold, creative thinking that underpins the culturally impactful and socially transformative research of UCC’s arts and humanities community. Our researchers are internationally recognised for their excellence, global networks and sustained success in securing competitive funding. Their work informs public policy, enriches cultural life and drives real‑world change, ensuring that arts and humanities perspectives are actively shaping Ireland’s futures.

Our Research Groups

The Future Humanities Institute comprises the Radical Humanities Laboratory, and a range of research groupings that synergise within and across disciplines.

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The arts and humanities perform a key leadership role within the research ecology at UCC. I hope you enjoy exploring this small sampling of this work and achievements from 2024-2025.

Prof Yvon Bonenfant

Director Future Humanities Institute

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Working with members of villages in China’s multi-ethnic Southwest, ECura seeks out ways to empower communities to adopt digital technologies to become curators of their traditional music and dance.

Dr. Lijuan Qian, PI, ECura Project

Everyone’s a Curator:
Digitally Empowering Ethnic Minority
Music Sustainability in China

The CASCADE team is excited to be partnering with some of the leading experts in text and cultural analytics and machine learning from across the UK and Europe.

Dr James O’Sullivan, PI, CASCADE

Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments. An MSCA Doctoral Network.

MIGMOBS is a huge and ambitious project on the root of global inequalities: on the neo-colonial relations implied in a world of selective borders which dictate who can be mobile and who is excluded.

Professor Adrian Favell, PI, MIGMOBS

MIGMOBS - The Orders and Borders of Global Inequality: Migration and Mobilities in Late Capitalism

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Future Humanities seed funds interdisciplinary experiments that open new doors to collaboration within and outside the arts and humanities. This exciting work sets the stage for new research pathways.