UCC Futures - Future Humanities

Our Research Groups

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

Radical Humanities Laboratory

Digital Cultures, New Media & Cultural Analytics

Centre for Arts Research and Practice

Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures

Eco-Humanities Research Group

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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

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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.

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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.