UCC School of Nursing and Midwifery Annual Report 2019

Healthcare Experience, Engagement and Reform

Awarded UCC Research Team of the Year 2019: Living Well with the Dead in Contemporary Ireland

HIGHLIGHTS

The five workshops and Thinkery organised by the research team during 2018/2019 made a significant contribution to pushing disciplinary boundaries and promoting genuine transdisciplinary collaboration in University College Cork, and further afield. By focusing on disciplinary imaginaries, the workshops challenged participants to critically reflect on the epistemic and embodied norms and practices in their fields, provoking lively, open, and highly generative debate about the limitations of our existing intellectual frameworks, and the need to imagine new ones International recognition of scholarly excellence – The project was awarded funding for an Accelerator Workshop, ‘Out of Bounds: Bodies, Abortion, Babies and Mass Graves’, at the Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (held on 2-3 December 2019), to propel it towards a further multi-sited study. Dr Joan McCarthy presented her paper, ‘Abortion services and matters of conscience: a feminist perspective’, on the first day of the workshop

The research team of Living Well with the Dead in Contemporary Ireland was recognised in the UCC Staff Recognition Awards Ceremony held on 10 October 2019. The project aims to develop a medical humanities network equipped with a new and shared vocabulary that goes beyond existing intellectual frameworks to research and respond to contemporary public disquiet in Ireland about uncared-for dead bodies. Social Studies, Dr Joan McCarthy, School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Dr Róisín O’Gorman, Department of Theatre), but also involved active collaboration with colleagues in a number of other disciplines (e.g. Law, Philosophy, Archaeology, Anatomy and Neuroscience, and Art History), together with international collaborators in the disciplines of philosophy and anthropology. Significantly, this transdisciplinary research engaged academic, technical, and research staff, together with graduate students across a range of programmes. Project website: https://livingwithdead.wixsite.com/website A wide range of resources are available on the website, including readings, podcasts, photographs, and recordings of discussions. Pictured right: Members of the research team attending UCC Annual Staff Recognition Ceremony (Dr Órla O’Donovan [back row, 1st from L-R], School of Applied Social Studies; Dr Róisin O’Gorman, [back row, 4th from L-R] Depatment of Theatre; Dr Joan McCarthy, School of Nursing and Midwifery, [front row, 2nd from L-R]. The Team: This project was led by the transdisciplinary Research Team (Dr Órla O’Donovan [PI] School of Applied

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