Anna Hickey Moody’s project Youth, Religion and Sexuality research project explores race, culture, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexuality in the lives of religious people. Also Anna Hickey Moody’s Faith Stories is available open access here

Anne O’ Brien in a collaboration with the Federation of Irish Sport and funded by Sport Ireland examines how gendered sports content in media is produced by Irish journalists and how those practices might be changed. Take a look at the report here provided as a pdf

Catherine Gander led the IRC-funded project, Diversifying Irish Poetry (DIP). DIP’s strategic partner was Poetry Ireland. DIP established a sustainable mentorship programme in Ireland for poetry critics from under-represented, minority ethnic groups whose access to critical culture is hindered by structural racism and migration. DIP made real, measurable, positive change to Ireland’s reviewing culture and broader literary landscape by 1) introducing and augmenting the voices of poetry critics of colour across multiple reviewing and related platforms, and 2) augmenting a culture of accountability and awareness in literary publishing, particularly in the region of reviewing cultures, by taking steps to ensure such platforms practise fairness and equity in commissioning and accepting poetry reviews.  Please find more information here https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/DIPoetryCritics and here: https://www.poetryireland.ie/news/launch-of-diversifying-irish-poetry-poetry-critics-of-colour-in-ireland

Gavan Titley is a Co-Investigator on the ERC funded Resist Project, which examines the formation of ‘anti-gender’ politics in Europe, its impacts, and how it is being resisted. Listen to this podcast in which Gavan discusses ideas from his book Is Free Speech Racist? as a basis to think about the politics of free speech today https://tortoiseshack.ie/5-gavan-titley-on-free-speech/

Jeneen Naji was Co-PI on the recently completed IRC-AHRC collaborative UK-Ireland research project Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities that was concerned with embedding intersection feminist methodologies in digital development, toolkit and resources available here https://fullstackfeminismdh.pubpub.org/  and here is Article on recent interview collection published in the DRI https://dri.ie/news/new-collection-full-stack-feminism/

Jennifer Redmond is a member of the Motherhood Project which is leading the way in examining cultural representations of motherhood and the way that mothers are depicted in popular culture, film, literature and the media. Jennifer Redmond is also Chair of the COST Action HIDDEN. The History of Identity Documentation in European Nations (HIDDEN) network unites scholars in history, migration studies, geography, sociology, law, linguistics, postcolonial studies, human rights and more to look at the history of ID regimes in Europe and beyond, drawing connections between the past and present. In the context of UN Sustainable Development Goal 16.9 that everyone should have a legal identity by 2030, and the rise of new forms of biometric digital ID, such as the Covid-19 vaccination certificates. More details on activities can be found here: https://hidden-costaction.eu/ Also you can read Jennifer Redmond’s book latest book: The politics of gender and sexuality in modern Ireland: A Reader Jennifer Redmond & Mary McAuliffe, editors

Liam MacAmhlaigh’s project entitled Portráidí na Scríbhneoirí Gaeilge Portraits of Irish-Language Writers is a living collection of portraits that celebrate the Irish-language writer, based on the pioneering work of Máire Uí Mhaicín. There are 190 writers in the current archive; added to annually.  This curated collection shares a new lens for biographical research celebrating the humanity of all types of contemporary writers, and all genres of writing within the Irish-language. You can watch this video vignette: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77rZrjxQjT0

Patricia Kennon is editor of a special issue of Irish Studies Review on representation, race, and ethnicity in Irish children’s and young-adult literature (May 2025). This will be the first-ever full-length scholarly publication on this area and will constitute a pioneering contribution to this under-researched and under-theorised area in Irish Studies, Irish youth-literature studies, and inclusive publishing. Also you can read Patricia Kennon’s Journal article: ‘Asexuality and the Potential of Young Adult Literature for Disrupting Allonormativity’. Asexuality Studies is an emerging research field and this article makes an innovative contribution to understanding and knowledge regarding the intersection of age, queerness, and adolescence.

Rita Sakr is the MU Lead on the EU-funded multi-university (lead university, University of Malta) Cooperation Partnership in Higher Education programme ‘Re-visiting the Mediterranean: Literature, Culture, Environment’, 2024-26. She was Senior Co-Investigator, with Prof Sinead McGilloway (Principal Investigator), on the QFI-funded research programme, SALaM-Ireland (2020-24)