UCC Research & Innovation Awards 2023
Award Winners
| Award Category |
Winner |
Affiliation |
| Researcher of the Year | Professor Thomas Garavan | Cork University Business School |
| Early-Stage Researcher of the Year | Dr. Tatiana Vagramenko
Dr. Aaron Lim |
School of Society, Politics & Ethics
Department of Geography |
| Research Career Achievement Award | Professor Elke Arendt | School of Food & Nutritional Sciences |
| Research Team of the Year | UCC Dementia Palliative Care Research Team | School of Nursing & Midwifery, School of Medicine, Centre for Gerontology & Rehabilitation, Department of General Practice, Cork University Business School, South South West Hospital Group, St. Luke’s Nursing Home |
| Research Collaboration of the Year | Professor Maria Cahill | School of Law |
| Research Supervisor of the Year | Dr. Helena Buffery | Department of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies |
| Research Communicator of the Year | Dr. Olive McCarthy | Centre for Co-operative Studies; Cork University Business School |
| Research Image of the Year | Dr. Richard Unitt and Ms. Emma Murphy | School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences |
| Research Support Person of the Year | Dr. Sonia Monteiro | Environmental Research Institute |
| Research Support Team of the Year | Office of Research Grants & Contracts | UCC Finance Office |
| Vice President for Research & Innovation Award for Interdisciplinary Research | Professor Ciara Heavin | Department for Business Information Systems; Cork University Business School |
| Best Publication of the Year Involving an Undergraduate Author | Ms Allanah Neff | School of Mathematical Sciences |
| Research Award for Open Science | The Scenario Project - Performative Teaching, Learning & Research | Department of German and Department of Theatre |
| Creating a Culture for Responsible Conduct of Research | Professor Christian Waeber
Biological Services Unit |
Department of Pharmacology & Thereapeutics
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| The President's Award for Research Impacting the Sustainable Development Goals | CEAB Project led by Professor Nuala Finnegan, Escudero Fontán, Dr. Céire Broderick, Dr. Carlos Garrido Castellano and Dr. Cara Levey | School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures |
| Engaged Research of the Year | Dr. Katharina Swirak Professor Patricia Leahy-Warren |
Department of Sociology & Criminology School of Nursing & Midwifery |
| Innovator of the Year | Professor Holger Claussen, Dr. Senad Bulja, Dr. Lester Ho | Tyndall National Institute |
| Licence of the Year | Dr. Conor O'Mahony, Carlo Webster, Andrea Bocchino, Ryan Sebastian, Fjodors Tjulkins | Tyndall National Institute |
| Spin-out of the Year | CergenX (Professor Geraldine Boylan) | INFANT Research Centre |
| New Spin-out of the Year | David Cashman, The WellSchools Network | School of Education |
| Consultancy Project of the Year | Professor Louise Crowley | School of Law |
| Start-up of the Year | Shannen O'Reilly | TrustDish |
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