In total, 18 MU projects - 16 postgraduate and 2 postdoctoral - will receive funding under the Government of Ireland Programmes totalling €2.02 million.
The following MU projects have been included in an overall national allocation of €36.3 million for 2026.
MU GOI Postdoctoral Research Projects
- Dr Claudia Badulescu, Sociology - From Communism to European Governance: The European Commission’s Support for Administrative Reforms in Romania, Serbia, and Moldova
- Dr Hannah Casey, Psychology - iDecIDe: Co-Creation of Accessible Resources on Assisted Decision-Making for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities and their Decision-Making Partners
MU GOI Postgraduate Research Projects
- Alessia Palladino, Law and Criminology - The History of the Adoption of the EU’s Nature Restoration Law: a Rights of Nature perspective
- Benedetta D’Antuono, Early Irish (Sean-Ghaeilge) - Ireland and Europe: Cultural Intersections and Literary Transitions in a Late-medieval Manuscript
- Carina Michelle Kaufmann, Psychology - Developing a Relational Reasoning Assessment Tool and Educational Intervention Protocol for Enhancing Cognitive Skills and Educability
- Darragh Clarke, English - Ethical Recognition in the Aesthetic Development of the Palestinian Novel
- Dimitrios Roupas, History - Deconstructing a Genocide: A Microhistorical Approach to the Holocaust in Provincial Greece
- Emma Daly, Chemistry - Glycoconjugate Photo-Affinity Probes (GPAPs) to Identify New Targets against Critical Priority Fungal Pathogens
- Haya Al-Mohammedi, Biology - Dysregulation of metal ion homeostasis to overcome bacterial antimicrobial resistance
- Jennifer Claire O’Donnell, Music - John Field and the Nocturne: How the Italian Partimento and Solfeggio Tradition Shaped the Genre
- Kevin Healion, Geography (ICARUS) - Inventorying Irelands historical weather records: Rescuing our past to understand our future
- Kim McLoughlin – Law and Criminology - Exploring Responses to Sexual Violence in Ireland through the Lens of Narrative Activism
- Mícheál Ó Corcora – History - An Oasis of Democracy? Autonomy and Politics of Uzhhorod and Subcarpathian Rus’ in Interwar Czechoslovakia
- Saoirse Fordham – Geography (ICARUS) - Exploring the UNSEEN for enhanced flood resilience
- Sara Troian – Law and Criminology - International law, Settler-colonialism and Palestine
- Sydney Rime – Music - The legacy of the fin-de-siècle Celtic Revival folksong collections
- Stephanie Vento - Law and Criminology (CORD Partnership) - Drugs in Ireland: Policing Practices’ Effects on harm Reduction (DIPPER)
- Triona Kenny – Law and Criminology - Optimising Therapeutic Jurisprudence for Victims of Crime: A Proactive Response to Secondary Victimisation in the Irish Criminal Justice System
This year, 341 awards in total will be funded across Ireland; 244 postgraduate scholarships and 97 postdoctoral fellowships.
Announcing the awards, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science James Lawless TD said: “This significant investment of €36.3 million in our early career researchers reinforces the Government’s commitment to the future of Ireland’s research and innovation system. The Government of Ireland programme is a central measure in supporting the system’s continued development and in strengthening Ireland’s international competitiveness. Early career researchers are the lifeblood of that system. These awards, which span a wide range of subject areas, represent an investment in the country’s future capacity to innovate, driving both social and economic benefits. Without new ideas and new ways of thinking, we cannot hope to build or sustain Ireland as a knowledge economy. My congratulations to all the awardees. I look forward to seeing the impact of your work - on society, on your careers, and in further enhancing Ireland’s reputation as an innovation economy.”
To deliver on shared national objectives, each year the Government of Ireland programmes collaborate with strategic funding partners. Thirteen of the Government of Ireland postgraduate scholarships announced today are made in collaboration with, and funded by, partner agencies. The agencies comprise the Environmental Protection Agency, Met Éireann, the Department of Children, Disability and Equality, and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Further information is available on the Research Ireland website.
