Dr Cillian Ó Fathaigh
I’m a philosopher, working on technology, illness and French thought.

I’m an Assistant Professor at University College Cork.

Right now, I’m working on 2 questions:

1) What is a digital public sphere?
How does this technological transformation shape what we perceive as unjust? With this, I’ve particularly focused on how crip activists/people with disabilities engage with the digital public sphere. This project is funded by an MSCA Actions Grant/Polonez (€260,000).


2) What is the impact of Generative AI on education?
How do we need to adapt our pedagogy? What needs to change and what shouldn’t? This project is funded by Una Europa (€27,000).

Projects

Right now, my research covers 4 main areas:

The Digital & Injustice

Artificial Intelligence

Illness

European Philosophy

Before coming to Krakow, I was a Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge; a Lecturer at King’s College London; a Research Fellow at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid; a Research Fellow on an AHRC-DFG project; and, a Teaching Fellow at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. You can find out more here.

What I’ve been up to …

RECIND Blog – Complete

With the RECIND project coming to a close, at least in its current form, I have also completed the 8-part blog series designed to reach a broader public. Some of them need some work and are a bit speculative, but I have collected them all…

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AI & Pedagogy – Survey – 550+ Responses

As part of AIHUMS101, we’ve produced one of the largest survey of European academics to date on AI & Pedagogy in the Humanities & Social Sciences. This is a crucial issue for teaching and one which we still know too little about. This survey, with…

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