Welcome from Project Leader Hiram Morgan
The UCC Humanities Platform offers a model of inter-departmental, inter-collegiate and national co-operation in the pursuit of 4th level excellence. It is built on collaboration internally at 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork, between UCC, TCD and NUIG in the SIF-funded Texts, Contexts, Cultures graduate training scheme, on the CELT digitization project involving North-South links and nationally on theconsortium which seeks to redefine Arts and Humanities research-led education across the island.
The UCC Humanities Platform is funded by a grant by the under PRTLI4. The project leader is Dr Hiram Morgan, () a senior lecturer in the School of History and an established scholar in Early Modern Ireland. The grant was won on the initiative of Professor Dermot Keogh and with the assistance of Gabriel Doherty and Andrew McCarthy. The project鈥檚 logo is from the floor of the Honan Chapel - it depicts the salmon of knowledge swimming successfully against the current!
The UCC Humanities Platform
- has established three post-doctoral fellowships at , hosted by the School of History UCC.
- is assisting the following ongoing humanities projects: the (Classics), (Medieval Irish) and (English) with post-graduate studentships and conference funding.
- is participating in an innovative PhD programme for the Humanities operated jointly by UCC, TCD and NUIG.
- is continuing UCC鈥檚 commitment to digitization in collaboration with () and with the at UCC and nationally in liaison with the (Digital Humanities Observatory), based at the .
- is supporting the purchase of primary source materials for the Boole Library
- is backed by a host of individual scholars from the disciplines in UCC.