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Haunted Futures Conference 2025: “Haunted Technologies”
No full textEvent: Haunted Futures Conference 2025: “Haunted Technologies” Venue: University College of CorkDates: 12th to 14th of November 2025
A report of the third annual Haunted Futures Conference convened by Dr Ellen Scally and Dr Rachel Gough, convened in the Department of Film and Screen Media, University College Cork
Gerald of Wales: Identity, Afterlives and Wonders: The First Chris Williams Memorial Colloquium on Ireland and Wales
No full textEvent: Gerald of Wales: Identity, Afterlives and Wonders — The First Chris Williams Memorial Colloquium on Ireland and Wales Venue: University College Cork Date: 21st to 22nd November 202
Rewilding as a Model for Creative and Affective Practices
No full textGrieving with Forests is a practice-led research project that explores novel perceptual and creative affordances of a grieving body engaged in movement and sensory-based artistic practice in collaboration with forest environments. The work asks how ecological attitudes and relationships might be altered by replacing the “recovery” directive of modernist western grief practices with an ecocentric perspective on loss that embraces rupture and ongoingness. How might one grieve differently, create differently, and even carry out research differently through paradigms of complexity and unknowing referred to in this paper under the umbrella of methodological (re)wilding
Understanding the impact of palliative and ablative radiotherapy (RT) on Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) in patients with metastatic disease
No full textBackground: Radiotherapy (RT) is an effective but underutilized treatment option for patients with metastatic cancer. While studies have examined RT’s impact on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) internationally, there is limited data on Irish patients. Some research suggests aspects of quality of life may dip after RT but eventually return to baseline, though this varies depending on prognosis. Since healthcare systems, cultural factors, and socioeconomic conditions differ across countries, these findings may not be easily generalizable to the Irish population. This study aims to explore the feasibility of the use of electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs) to assess HRQOL in Irish patients receiving palliative or ablative RT.
Methods: This single-institution observational study at Cork University Hospital utilizes the ePRO application, ONCOpatient, to administer pre-validated HRQOL questionnaires including the EORTC-QOL-C30, EORTC-QOL-C15 PAL, and EQ-5D-5L to patients or their caregivers via their smartphone at four-timepoints: baseline, final treatment, and 4- and 12-weeks-post-treatment. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize engagement and compliance. Longitudinal analysis will be conducted to evaluate HRQOL changes over time, and regression models will be used to identify predictors of HRQOL outcomes.
Results: From October 2024 to March 2025, 22 participants were onboarded (mean age 63.23 years, 40.9% male, 59.1% female), with various cancer subtypes (breast n=7, lung n=5, renal n=3, other n=7). Overall app engagement was 54.5% (9/14 patients and 3/8 caregivers). Compliance declined over time: 40.9% at baseline, 25% at final treatment, 15% at 4-weeks post-RT, and 0% at 12-weeks post-RT. Barriers to app engagement included licensing issues, syncing delays and difficulty locating assessment dates. Limited provider engagement regarding patient identification and onboarding also presented challenges. Further results to follow.
Conclusion: This study highlights feasibility challenges in integrating ePROs for metastatic cancer patients receiving RT. While engagement was moderate, declining compliance indicates barriers to data collection. Addressing technical and app usability issues may improve long-term implementation. Future analyses will further assess HRQOL changes over time and identify predictors of patient-reported outcomes to enhance RT decision-making and patient-centered care
UCC Student Medical Journal 5th Edition
No full textWe are so pleased to present the Fifth Edition of the Student Medical Journal! Another year\u27s hard work by UCC\u27s medical students is on display, with an impressive array of abstracts, ethical discussion, reviews and original research. This year\u27s special edition focuses on diversity and cultural differences in medicine, interpreted through the unique lenses of UCC\u27s medical societies. This edition also boasts several SMJ firsts, including the publication of conference abstracts from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland\u27s Neurovision Conference, as well as UCC\u27s own Student Research Conference! As the SMJ continues to grow, we are always grateful for the dedication and support of our editorial team, our faculty and peer reviewers, and the authors who make these editions possible! Happy reading
Apocalyptic Misanthropy and the ‘Fall’ of Modernity in Mid-Twentieth Century American Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
No full textThis article critically examines misanthropy and anti-modern sentiment in post-apocalyptic fiction. Focusing on Pat Frank’s Alas, Babylon (1959), it explores the misanthropic potential of apocalyptic fantasies that imagine the end of the world as both a clean slate and a deserved punishment for a sinful, ‘fallen’ humanity. The novel’s conservative outlook frames the apocalypse as an opportunity to return to idealised ways of life, evoking biblical themes and misogynist narratives to underscore its engagement with misanthropy. Sin and moral excess are identified with a mid-twentieth-century modernity, which precipitates its own downfall. These misanthropic longings map on to the nature-culture divide prevalent in modern, Western culture, where nature is depicted as a pastoral idyll, which is opposite to technological modernity. Through an examination of these misanthropic constructions, this article highlights the ways post-apocalyptic fiction more generally reflects and shapes societal anxieties about modernity, the natural world and human fallibility. Finally, it challenges these misanthropic paradigms by discussing their narrow conception of power and responsibility and their incapacity to imagine meaningful futures
The 76th Irish History Students’ Association Annual Conference
No full textEvent: The 76th Irish History Students’ Association Annual Conference Venue: University College CorkDate: 1st March 202
Talking to, Talking Back: Sex/Gender as a Dialogic Process
No full textDebates have grown regarding the meaning and usage of the terms ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ in the UK. There is an influential ‘gender-critical’ movement that views sex as immutable biological reality, and advocates for this understanding to guide policymaking and politics. In contrast, this article argues that theories of sex and gender should account for both biological and sociocultural aspects, as well as interactions between the subject and the social world. To highlight interactions between biology, society and culture, this article takes sex/gender as one concept. It outlines how sex/gender can be viewed as a dialogic process of constant engagement with, and response to, the other. It centres Bakhtin’s concept of the ‘dialogic’, which denotes the continuous unfinished dialogue with others that moulds all language and cognition. The article first explores how some feminist theorists have addressed these questions. It builds especially on Butler, Moi and Young’s works, particularly the notion that gender can be viewed not as a set of shared features but a personal experiential response. Likewise, this article argues that subjects are born into prevailing sex/gender structures, shaped by societal norms and expectations, and can only respond to these. However, each response also generates the potential for change. In illustrating these points, the article explores one type of response, ‘embodied texts’, which construct narratives from lived experience. Focusing on trans writing, these texts can create space for trans writers to resist erasure and challenge mainstream discourses. As an effective example of such resistance, the article analyses Harry Josephine Giles’s transfeminist zine, Wages for Transition (2019)
Exhuming the Past: Forensic Archaeology and Historical Justice in the Context of the Spanish Civil War
No full textConflict is an undeniable reality of human history. The long-term impacts of twentieth-century armed conflicts on historical and contemporary societies remain underexplored. Forensic archaeology and anthropology have the potential to provide a distinctive perspective on the past.
Rather than presenting a forensic case study in the conventional applied sense, this article offers a theoretical and contextual analysis of the role of forensic archaeology and anthropology in historical reckoning and justice processes, grounded in the context of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). This article uses the Spanish Civil War as an example of a country dealing with the consequences of armed conflict. Initially developed as part of criminal investigations, forensic anthropology and forensic archaeology have evolved into vital instruments for humanitarian efforts, uncovering previously obscured narratives, including the identification and return of the remains of conflict victims. By analysing the remains from the exhumation of mass graves from the Spanish Civil War, this research emphasises how forensic investigations address both legal and human rights imperatives, offering evidence for judicial proceedings while also providing closure for victims’ families. Adopting an ‘archaeology of the contemporary’ lens facilitates the investigation of the roles of forensic archaeology and anthropology. The findings reinforce these roles in historical reckoning and contemporary justice initiatives, while underlining the enduring challenges of confronting the legacies of armed conflict.
Memories Beneath the Skin: A Decolonial Feminist Workshop
No full textEvent: Memories Beneath the Skin: A Decolonial Feminist Workshop Venue: University College Cork Date: 12th May 202