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European Research Council (ERC) Grants

The European Research Council (ERC) is the European Union’s premier funding body for scientific and technological research. Established by the European Commission, it forms a key part of the EU’s framework programme for research and innovation, supporting outstanding investigators engaged in pioneering, high-impact work.

ERC awards are among the most prestigious and competitive research grants in Europe. They enable researchers to pursue ambitious, curiosity-driven projects that have the potential to generate major scientific and societal breakthroughs.

The UCD College of Social Sciences and Law is proud to host several ERC Grant Awardees, whose projects contribute to advancing knowledge and addressing complex global challenges. Our ERC-funded researchers are listed below.

Name

School

Project title

(opens in a new window)Prof Ruth Boeker

UCD School of Philosophy

(opens in a new window)New Histories of British Moral Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century (c. 1690–1800) (BMoral)

(opens in a new window)Prof Lai Ma

UCD School of Information and Communication Studies

(opens in a new window)Sustainable and Collaborative Information for Bibliodiverse Ecosystems: A Transnational Study (SCRiBe)

(opens in a new window)Prof Maebh Harding

UCD Sutherland School of Law

(opens in a new window)Redefining Legal Parenthood as a Legal Interdependency between Parent and Child (REDEFPARENT)

(opens in a new window)Prof Cathryn Costello

UCD Sutherland School of Law

(opens in a new window)Is International Refugee Law Effective? (RefLex)

(opens in a new window)Prof Aidan Regan

UCD School of Politics & International Relations

How Corporate Tax Avoidance Fuels the Wealth Inequalities that Undermine Democracy (Democracy Challenged)

(opens in a new window)Prof Dagmar Schiek

UCD Sutherland School of Law

(opens in a new window)Integration through rights in a European Society? - A new theory on the role of law for integration within and beyond a fractured EU. [RIGHTS-TO-UNITE]

(opens in a new window)Assoc Prof Joseph Lacey

UCD School of Politics & International Relations

Moral Agency in Election Campaigns (ELECT)

(opens in a new window)Prof Aisling Swaine

UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work & Social Justice

(opens in a new window)Gender, Conflict and Coercive Control: A Feminist Phenomenological Expansion of Conflict-related Harm (GENCOERCTRL)

(opens in a new window)Prof Rosana Pinheiro-Machado

UCD School of Geography

(opens in a new window)Flexible Work, Rigid Politics: The Nexus Between Labour Precariousness and Authoritarian Politics in The Global South (Brazil, India, Philippines) (WorkPoliticsBIP)

(opens in a new window)Prof Joanna Bruck

UCD School of Archaeology

(opens in a new window)Animals and Society in Bronze Age Europe (ANSOC) 

(opens in a new window)Prof Kath Browne

UCD School of Geography

(opens in a new window)Opposing Sexual and Gender Rights and Equalities: Transforming Everyday Spaces (OPPSEXRIGHTS)

(opens in a new window)Dr Amy Strecker

UCD Sutherland School of Law

(opens in a new window)Land, Property and Spatial Justice in International Law (PROPERTY[IN]JUSTICE)

(opens in a new window)Prof Eoin Carolan

UCD Sutherland School of Law

(opens in a new window)The Foundations of Institutional AuThority: a multi-dimensional model of the separation of powers (FIAT)

(opens in a new window)Assoc Prof Barry Molloy

UCD School of Archaeology

(opens in a new window)The Fall of 1200BC: The role of migration and conflict in social crises at end of the Bronze Age in South-eastern Europe (THE FALL)

(opens in a new window)Assoc Prof Dragos Calma

UCD School of Philosophy

(opens in a new window)Neoplatonism and Abrahamic Traditions. A Comparative Analysis of the Middle East, Byzantium and the Latin West (9th-16th Centuries) (NeoplAT)

(opens in a new window)Prof Suzanne Kingston

UCD Sutherland School of Law

(opens in a new window)Legal Architectures: The Influence of New Environmental Governance Rules on Environmental Compliance (LEGALARCHITECTURES)

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