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Dr Patrick Dawson

Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow Principal Investigator: Associate Professor Daniel Esmonde Deasy Project: Temporal Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science

Patrick Dawson is the recipient of a two-year IRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, working on temporal metaphysics and the philosophy of science. Patrick's current work focuses on the theory of presentism, particularly with reference to modern physics, an area that was also a focus of his recently completed PhD at the University of Sydney.

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Dr Rory Harder

Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow Principal Investigator: Assistant Professor Elmar Unnsteinsson Project: Communication and Institutiion

Rory Harder completed his PhD in 2022 at the University of Toronto. From 2023 to 2025, he is undertaking an IRC-funded postdoctoral research project at University College Dublin. His research addresses a range of issues in the philosophy of language and mind concerning joint action and communication. See his personal website for more information, including a list of publications: https://roryharder.com/

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Dr Dervla MacManus

Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow Principal Investigator: Professor Katherine O'Donnell Project: Gender Equity in Irish Architecture

Dervla MacManus is an IRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the School of Philosophy working on gender equity in the Irish architecture profession. This project is funded by the Irish Research Council with the RIAI and is looking at why women leave architecture, the gender breakdown in the profession, and attitudes towards gender equity in architecture. As a (former) architect she is concerned with traversing the boundaries between the history and practice of architecture.

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Dr Francesco Quatrini

Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow Principal Investigator: Professor Katherine O'Donnell Project: Early Modern Women and Religious Dissent: The Collegiants and the Advent of Modernity

Francesco Quatrini is a Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the UCD School of Philosophy. His project focuses on the history of a 17th Century Dutch dissenting group called the Collegiants, the history of women among them, and their contribution to the rise of the public sphere and to the development of Enlightenment political values. Francesco has published widely on the topic of early modern religious dissent and the development of political concepts.

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