Research
Research Culture
UCD School of History and Archives is committed to fostering a vibrant research community among staff and graduate students. We promote rigorous historical approaches within an environment which recognises the potentials for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study. We emphasise both collaborative research (within UCD and with our external partners). On the other hand, we have not lost sight of the value of cutting edge individual contributions to the field. We foster academic networks and knowledge transfer through our research forum, our academic centres and through our commitment to the formation of the next generation of scholars.
The Research Forum
The School's Research Forum enhances the research environment for staff and the graduate community and promotes the dissemination of the School's research by regularly hosting speakers, workshops, symposia and conferences. The current themes of the Research Forum are Identity and Conflict, Communication and Textual Culture, Religion, Ideology and Society and Health, Welfare and Public Policy. All research students and staff are invited to participate in the Forum.
Research Projects and Centres
Staff members are engaged in an impressive range of research projects, which include national and international collaboration, and their research interests are wide-ranging both chronologically and geographically, as the publications of the School show. There are also numerous graduate research projects.
Research foci incorporate:
These form an important part of the School's research culture, covering a wide range of subjects and interests relating to the academic strengths in History at UCD.
Each of these initiatives host international and national speakers, workshops and symposia, enhancing further our exciting research culture, as can be seen from the activities of the centres.