The HSIS initiative is committed to developing an inter-institutional research infrastructure for the humanities.
Centrally coordinated by the Royal Irish Academy, the HSIS consortium is a joint national platform for the coordination and dissemination of humanities research, teaching and training.
The centerpiece of the HSIS collaboration is the Digital Humanities Observatory, a sophisticated web-based humanities resource, which will store, preserve and provide access to the increasingly complex range of e-resources now being created in the humanities. The HSIS comprises multiple collaborative research and training clusters and UCD leads the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, whose mission is to engage with the 80 million people around the world who identify themselves in some way with Ireland and Irishness.Current staffing at the John Hume Institute includes Institute Director, Dr. Brian Jackson, four associated Principal Investigators, four associated research staff, five funded postdoctoral research staff and six PhD students. A further six PhD students are currently being recruited.
HSIS was funded under PRTLI Cycle 4.
The John Hume Institute’s academic research programme ‘Transforming the Study of Ireland and its diaspora’ consists of four core research strands:
Royal Irish Academy, Queen’s University Belfast, University of Ulster, University College Cork, National University of Ireland Galway, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, Dublin City University and University of Limerick.
