Research

Welcome to the research page of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.

The School has a vibrant research culture, an international reputation for excellence and a diverse range of research activities. The School is home to multiple funded research projects (including ERC and IRC Laureate grants) and also individual research projects by doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. Our research is distinctive and collaborative, and encompasses the following areas: Language, Culture and Creativity; Communication and Multilingualism; Local and Global Legacies; International Encounters; and Life-course and Lifestyles. More details on our funded research projects, research centres and researchers can be found below.

Current research projects include the following:

Rural Villages, Migration, and Intercultural Communication (VICO)
(Dr Andrea Ciribuco)

VICO is a sociolinguistic study of migration in rural areas. The project works with local communities to produce new knowledge on the everyday experience of migrants and refugees, and how Irish rural communities are dealing with linguistic and cultural diversity.  The project is funded by an IRC Laureate grant.

Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures
(Dr Catherine Emerson)

Blog: https://rebpaf.wordpress.com/ 

Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures (REBPAF) is a large-scale Marie Curie Doctoral Network coordinated by the University of Galway. It is funded by the European Union, the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation, and UK Research and Innovation. The network brings together academic partners in the Universities of Alicante, Antwerp, Bristol, Vienna, and Zurich.

Global and Local Scholarship on Annotated Manuscripts
(Dr Pádraic Moran)

GLOSSAM is a four-year research project funded by the IRC Laureate Awards.  The GLOSSAM project will enhance our understanding of reading, education, scholarship, and knowledge transfer in the pre-modern world, by creating new narratives, conceptual frameworks, digital tools and methodological models for the study of glosses. Glosses are the paratexts transmitted between the lines and in the margins of manuscript books, micro-texts that control how the central texts were read and interpreted.

PIETRA - Translation and Communication
(Prof Anne O'Connor) 

PIETRA is a study of the foundations on which the Catholic Church builds its multilingual communicative structures. The project is funded by the European Research Council under its Consolidator Grant Scheme, Grant No. 101001478.

Research Centres

Postgraduate Researchers

Postdoctoral Researchers