Grant Reports

Portal tomb construction: Doogort West, Achill Island, Co Mayo

The survey asked whether it would be possible to reconstruct a portal tomb in Doogart West, in Co. Mayo.

Dr Eoin Halpin

Cultural Democracy and Cultural Policy: A Comparative Case Study of Ireland and Denmark

The aim to establish a Cultural Democracy Working Group has been achieved and has already developed into a formal network and a submitted research bid…

Dr Steven Hadley

Autocratic Revolving Doors: A biographic approach to studying autocratic elites.

The area of research explaining the return of autocratic elites is vastly understudied and lacks systematic empirical evidence.

Dr Roman-Gabriel Olar

Forging an Assisted Human Reproduction Framework for Ireland: Statutory Regulation of International Surrogacy Arrangements

Balancing children’s rights, the position of the surrogate and the rights of the intended parents must be carefully achieved.

Dr Brian Tobin

Micro-continuum modelling approach to simulate drug release from eroding porous delivery devices.

The objective was to learn about the micro-continuum modelling approach developed by Dr Cyprien Soulaine and others with a view to applying it to modelling…

Dr Kevin Moroney

Evolving Multi-Objective Robot Swarms (EvoMORS)

This research proposed an evolutionary multi-objective (MO) neural network (NN) for robot swarm control.

Dr Karl Mason

Crafting the Knowth macehead: an experimental exploration of a unique Neolithic artefact

Through an exploration of several strands of experimental archaeological research, this project seeks to ?reverse-engineer? the specialist technology required to craft theKnowth maesmor-type macehead.

Mr Joe Fenwick

Histories of Emotion and the Built Environment (HEBE)

To develop a research network and publications, with scholars from Ireland, Northern Ireland, GB, and Sweden with a focus on research into the history of…

Dr Sophie Cooper

Mathematical models for metal forming processes

The goal of this project was to learn more about different metal forming processes and the models currently used to describe them, and to develop…

Dr Doireann O'Kiely

The Knocknarea Archaeology Project

The overall focus of the project has been to prepare for dissemination the archaeological information collected during the excavations and survey on Knocknarea Mountain. Co.…

Dr Stefan Bergh

The Sweathouse Excavations Project

This report presents the preliminary results of the Sweathouse Excavations Project.

Aidan Harte

Castlepook Caves Project

This report summarises the results to date of two weeks of fieldwork at Castlepook Cave from May 21st to June 4th 2022.

Dr Richard Jennings