Research Week 2025

Research Week Schedule:

Monday, February 24, 1.00-1.40, Cobden Hall

• 1.00-1.10 Eoghan Smith, ‘Welcome note, Research Week 2025’
• 1.10-1.40 Derek Coyle: ‘‘Symphonies from a Cloud (over Ballymurphy)’: A poetry reading from a work in progress’

Research Insights: Tuesday February 25, 1.00-2.00, Iris Murdoch Hall

• 1.00-1.30 Niamh McCrea (SETU) and PJ White (SETU): ‘Research at SETU SocialCORE and DesignCORE’
• 1.30-2.00 Steph Hanlon: ‘To PhD or not to PhD? Top Tips for Starting the PhD Journey’

Eoghan Smith (Chair)

Research Insights: Wednesday February 26, 1.00-2.00, Therry Hall

• 1.00-1.20 Margaret Murphy: ‘Food security and insecurity: what can we learn from the experiences of medieval Irish towns?’
• 1.20-1.40 James Heaney, ‘Javier Cercas’s Soldiers of Salamis, the Spanish Civil War, and the New World (Dis)-Order’
• 1.40-2.00 Eoghan Smith, ‘Editing the Literary Encyclopaedia’

(Chair TBC)

Research Insights: Thursday February 27, 1.00-2.00, Therry Hall

• 1.00-1.20 Liz Dawson: ‘The use & legacy of St Patrick’s Confessio & Epistola ad Coroticum in medieval Irish hagiography’
• 1.20-1.40 Amelia Fleming: ‘Researching Ruth in 2025’
• 1.40-2.00 Simon Workman: ‘The posthuman gothic in contemporary Irish writing’

Ida Milne (Chair)

Public Lecture: ‘Psychology and Social Media’, Monday March 3, 2.00-3.00, Cobden Hall

• Dean Reid: ‘Why do people catfish?’
• Dawn Higgins: ‘From Texts to TikTok: Social Media, language and conversation’
• Leo Carroll: ‘Cyberbullying: causes and impacts’

Margaret Murphy (Chair)