Grant Reports

A Four Nations Art History? The G. F. Watts Memorial Exhibition, 1905-06

Archival research to consult a wide range of sources relating to the Watts Memorial Exhibition, including a full suite of the exhibition catalogues and associated…

Dr Kathryn Milligan

Charlemont Grants Awarded 2021/2022

Please click download to view a list of the most recent Charlemont Grants awarded. Individual reports will be published here in 2023.

Royal Irish Academy

Governance in Early Childhood Education and Care: the case of Argentina

In this project, I intended to address the map of ECEC provision in its complexity from a systems perspective.

Dr Jennifer Guevara

The Memorialisation of War in the Work of Otto Dix, 1914-1934

Examining work created by an artist who spent thirty-eight months as a frontline soldier, paying close attention to the socio-political and artistic conditions at the…

Dr Ann Murray

Irish Black poplar Genetic Finger Printing Project – Phase 2

A number of samples of Irish Black Poplar were genotyped to determine their clone line.

Dr Daniel Buckley

An automatic auditory investigation of speech synthesis systems production

The grant was used to finance a visit to the Auditory Engineering Laboratory (AEL) to get the missing knowledge to enable further exploration of synthetic…

Sébastien Le Maguer

The search for Scottish Lovage! A botanical survey of the outer Copeland Islands.

The Copeland Bird Observatory arranged for a team of botanists to undertake a botanical survey of the two Outer Copeland Islands to establish a base-line…

Wesley Smyth

Is Virtual Reality the New Normal? Video Games as a Vehicle for Research, Teaching & Learning

This project explored the use of mainstream video-games as a vehicle for education,

Dr Gene Carolan

Housing and Support for Right-Wing Populism

The research project analyses the effect of rapidly rising costs related to housing and rents on support for right-wing populist parties in advanced industrialized democracies

Dr Alexander Held

Intelligent Planning of Emerging Wireless Technologies in Railway Transportation Systems

Research collaborations have been initiated between UCD and University of Toronto. A joint research paper has been published at an international conference (IEEE Vehicular Technology…

Dr Xingqi Zhang

Geographic variation in hip fracture incidence and care-processes: a comparison between Ireland and Denmark

This research showed that for many indicators of care quality after acute hip fracture, Denmark performs better than Ireland.

Dr Mary Walsh

Mid-nineteenth century Translations of Medieval Law Tracts: The Nordic Evidence

This project examines the uses of the 1274 Norwegian Landslov after it was applied in Norway.

Dr Ciaran McDonough