'TOGETHER - collaborating across prison walls and borders' 

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from University College Cork and Queens University Belfast have secured €200,000 research funding from the Shared Island North-South Research Programme for their collaborative project entitled ‘TOGETHER- collaborating across prison walls and borders’. The project builds on UCC’s ongoing education partnership with the Cork Education and Training Board in Cork Prison and QUB’s partnership with HMP Hydebank Wood in Belfast. The collaborative cross-border research partnership is arising from the Irish Government’s Shared Island initiative, delivered by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) on behalf of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research Innovation and Science (DFHERIS). The transdisciplinary project will run from 2022-2024 and will explore the impacts of the prison-university classroom and co-produce (with participating students) an all-island curriculum that could be used across Irish prisons, north and south. The TOGETHER team are Dr Katharina Swirak (UCC), Prof Shadd Maruna (QUB), Dr James Cronin (UCC) and Prof Maggie O’Neill (UCC).

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