College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies

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College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic
Studies

• Professor Kevin Barry

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From a Faculty of 23 Disciplines
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To a College of 6 Schools
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Teaching versus Research Functions
S T U D E N T S

• 5,345 full time degree students
• 1,634 part time degree students
• 640 access and Erasmus students
• Total 7,619
• of which 290 are
• research students

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Key Challenges

• Mass education model
• Focused Research Objectives
• Workload balance
• Unequal staff-student ratios
• Equality of student experience of small-group
  teaching
• Structural complexity

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S T A F F
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College Age Profile
S T A F F
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Key Opportunity

• 60 of staff are under 40 years of age

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Staff Development AHSS
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Research Outputs 2001-09
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Variety of Impact Factors in AHSS

• 1. Royal Irish Academy KPI Report
• 2. HEA Foresight Report
• Both due for completion 2009-10

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Conflicts of Interpretation 1

• Our students seek variety of choice
• Funding agencies seek unity of purpose

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Conflicts of Interpretation 2

• We had invited students and teachers across many
  disciplines to name at least two reasons for
  studying AHSS
• The Chinese teachers, in addition to studying
  beauty, proposed getting rich

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Royal Irish Academy Report on the Contribution of
the Humanities, 2007

• AHSS are
• central to cultural and intellectual life
• to quality of life
• to conflicts of values,
• to social cohesion

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That Full Complement of Riches the Contributions
of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
(AHSS) to the Nations Wealth, British Academy
2004

• Key functions of AHSS
• cultural and intellectual enrichment
• economic prosperity and well-being
• understanding of major challenges facing
  societies
• contributing to public policy and debate
• providing a rigorous, beneficial and fulfilling
  education.

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Arts Humanities Research Council (UK)

• the impact of arts and humanities research its
  broader significance and public value.
• interactions between arts and humanities
  researchers and non-academic audiences
• knowledge transfer activity, and benefits for
  cultural, social and economic well-being

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Building Irelands Smart Economy 2008

• 2.12 Leveraging the Arts, Culture and Creative
  Sectors
• The cultural and creative sector is globally one
  of the fastest growing.
• Consumer demand for creative content is driving
  new sales in computers, broadband, cell phones,
  and ecommerce.
• The creative sector also has strong linkages with
  tourism.
• The arts, cultural and creative industries are
  key and primary economic contributors.
• They consist of real businesses, enduring
  employers, differentiators of us as a cultural
  and tourist destination.
• Future investment in this sector must be based
  on engaging and attracting the business sector.

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College and School Strategies
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• Place, displacement and identity.
• Medieval Studies.
• Frontiers in European context.
• Gender, empowerment and globalisation.
• National Institute for archival research in the
  performing arts. (NIARPA).
• Creative Industries.
• Literary production and its social condition.
• Representing the West of Ireland archives and
  methodologies.
• Inclusion and capacity-building through civic
  engagement and creative learning technologies.
• Justice and citzenship in a global world.
• Health, disability and illness.
• Science, technology and society.
• Environment and society research cluster.
• Infectious disease perception cultural and
  social contexts.
• Governance and sustainable development.
• Printing and publishing in Ireland.
• Dreams in German literature and culture.
• Texts, transmission and cultural exchange.
• Translation zones contact, conflict and
  resolution.

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Research Themes across cognate Colleges

• Life Cycle Research Program (UNESCO)
• Environment, Displacement, Advocacy, Rights
• Creative Industries Creative Practices
• Developing a Smart Economy

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