Workshop: Public facing scholarship
Event details
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Tuesday 8 April 2025 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Description
Des Fitzgerald is professor of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences at University College Cork. He was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Sociology and named a “New Generation Thinker” by the BBC and the AHRC. His work has appeared in Granta, on BBC Radio 3, and has been published by Faber & Faber. In this workshop, Des will discuss his approach to work that is aimed at a public audience and how best to go about undertaking this type of scholarship. The workshop will be appropriate for scholars at any career stage and from any discipline.
Attendance is free but limited. Please confirm your attendance via this Google Form.
iHuman
How we understand being ‘human’ differs between disciplines and has changed radically over time. We are living in an age marked by rapid growth in knowledge about the human body and brain, and new technologies with the potential to change them.