PResident's RePORt 2009/2010 - University College Cork

Foreword
UCC at a Glance
Academic Developments
Teaching and Learning
Research
College Reports:
Arts, Celtic
Studies and Social
Sciences
Business and Law
Medicine and Health
Science, Engineering and
Food Science
Events
Student Experience
Sports and Recreation
Buildings and Estates
Cork University Press
Finance
Governing Body
IRIS Appendix
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School of Geography and Archaeology:
the human environment
Dr Ron Pinhasi became the first UCC Researcher to be awarded
funding (€1.088 million) by the European Research Council (ERC)
for his project ‘From the earliest modern humans to the onset of
farming (45,000-4,500 BC): the role of climate, life-style, health,
migration and selection in shaping European population history’.
Heritage Council of Ireland: Dr Tomás Ó Carragáin and Mr John
Sheehan for their project on Making Christian Landscapes:
Settlement, Society and Regionality in Early Medieval Ireland. Dr
Barra Ó Donnabháin for a collaboration with Queen’s University
Belfast on the ‘Peoples of Prehistoric’.
Dr Tomás Ó Carragáin was the winner of the 2009 Martin Jope
Prize for the ‘best novel interpretation and presentation of new
findings’ published in Medieval Archaeology for his paper ‘The
architectural setting of the Mass in early medieval Ireland’.
The NORFACE-funded TCRAf-Eu Transnational Childcare project
is funded through a €1.5m grant (€360,000 to UCC) from the
NORFACE Transnational Programme on Migration. The TCRAf-Eu
project is an interdisciplinary and international research project
involving Applied Psychology, Geography and ISS21 as well as
researchers in the Netherlands, Portugal, Norway, Ireland, Nigeria,
Angola and Ghana.
Student Awards:
• Robert Power (BA) was presented with the William Butler
Yeats medal in Archaeological Studies by Dr Mary Robinson in
2010 for best archaeology essay in Ireland competition at the
Undergraduate Awards Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Scoil Léinn na Gaeilge
Student Awards:
• Thaddeus Ó Buachalla won an award for Modern Irish and
Mary Ita Groarke won the Mansion House Scholarship in Irish
at the Undergraduate Awards of Ireland and Northern Ireland
• Philip Healy won a scholarship for Early and Medieval Irish
and History (also awarded NUI postgraduate scholarship) and
Natalie Schneider won a scholarship for Early and Medieval
Irish at the IRCHSS Postgraduate Scholarships
• Fionnbarra Ó Cearnaigh (PhD) and Peter Holzmann (MA) were
winners of the Societas Celtologica Europae prizes in Modern
Irish and Early and Medieval Irish, respectively.
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Dr Maeve Conrick
• PI of Enterprise Ireland application under the FP7 Coordinator
Support Programme (€12,500).
• Co-PI for NAIRTL funding application (with co-PI Dr F. Cox):
funding awarded for project on Postgraduate Research and
Teaching and Learning.
• Government of Canada Faculty Enrichment Award for a project
on ‘The Linguistics of Canada: Majority/Minority Issues’.
German
• Dr Siobhan Mortell and Dr Claire O’Reilly are members of the
Working Group of Third-Level Business German Teachers in
Ireland, which was presented the Kuratorium Award by the
German–Irish Chamber of Commerce in June 2010.
• Dr Manfred Schewe, as project coordinator, received the
European Language Label Award for the innovative bilingual
online journal SCENARIO which is based at the Department of
German, UCC.
Italian
• Dott. Laura Rascaroli’s IRCHSS-funded RDI research project
‘Capturing the Nation: Irish Home Movies, 1930-1970’, a
collaboration with Drs Barry Monahan and Gwenda Young
(UCC) and the Irish Film Institute, Dublin (€100,000).
• Dr Silvia Ross, Publication Grant of CAN$8,000 from Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.