Expand+The priority of the School is to prepare students for their future professional careers, in support of which academic staff engage in world-class research in their respective disciplines. The wide-ranging expertise of staff is most evident in the ext...

Hide-The priority of the School is to prepare students for their future professional careers, in support of which academic staff engage in world-class research in their respective disciplines. The wide-ranging expertise of staff is most evident in the extensive range of our publications with leading publishing houses and in international peer-reviewed journals. The research activity of the School also includes original composition.

There are three Research Centres associated with the School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music as follows:

The Institute of Ethics

The Institute aims to create ethical awareness in relation to all fields of the university's activities and to play a leading role in raising public awareness of, and stimulating debate about, ethical issues. The Institute promotes a systematic, interdisciplinary approach to applied ethics in various fields including business, technology, politics, media, healthcare, and the life sciences.

The Centre for Interreligious Dialogue

The Centre for Interreligious Dialogue (CIRD) is an academic centre committed to the study and practice of interreligious dialogue. The Centre seeks to promote research, teaching, and public engagement in the area of interreligious dialogue in Ireland and beyond, particularly in relation to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and the religious-secular dialogue today.

The Centre for Music Research and Creative Practice

The Centre for Music Research and Creative Practice (MRCP) is a centre for knowledge exchange with public bodies and wider cultural organisations, in addition to engaging audiences and communities of practice across a variety of music genres. It engages with policy and practice on national infrastructure for the arts, music development within society, popular music experience and the processes and practice of composition and practice-based research

Expand+Areas of Research Expertise

Biblical Studies and Sacred Texts: Hebrew Bible; Pentateuch/Torah; Prophetic literature; Mediaeval Jewish Biblical Exegesis; Gospels and Pauline literature; Qur'an and hadith; Reception history; The use of the Bible in ...

Hide-Areas of Research Expertise

Biblical Studies and Sacred Texts: Hebrew Bible; Pentateuch/Torah; Prophetic literature; Mediaeval Jewish Biblical Exegesis; Gospels and Pauline literature; Qur'an and hadith; Reception history; The use of the Bible in and across religious traditions.

Ethics: Bioethics; Business Ethics; Conflict Studies; Digital Content Platform Research; Ethics of Assistive Technologies; Ethics of Nanotechnology; Healthcare Ethics; Human Rights; Memory and Ethics; Philosophical Ethics; Research Ethics; Virtue Ethics.

Historical and Systematic Theology: Augustine; Christology; Ecumenism; Feminist Theology; French twentieth-century Catholic Theology; Interreligious Dialogue; Karl Barth; Karl Rahner; Liberation Theologies; Patristics; Pneumatology; Political Theology; Ressourcement Theology; Holocaust Theology; Phenomenological Theology.

Philosophy: History of Philosophy; Continental Philosophy of Religion; German Idealism; Plato and Plato Reception; Contemporary European Theories of Power and Resistance; the Radical Enlightenment; Irish Philosophy; Visual Theory.

Theological Ethics: Catholic Social Thought; Christian Bioethics; Christian Social Ethics; Comparative Religious Ethics; Feminist Ethics; Forgiveness; Justice; Fundamental Moral Theology; Human Rights; Natural Law; Theological Anthropology.

Religious Studies: Inter-Religious and Intra-Religious Engagement; Islamic Studies; Jewish Studies; Religion and Identity; Religion and Languages; Religion and Literature; Religions and Religious Minorities in the Middle East; Religions in Ireland; Semitic Languages (Biblical, Rabbinic and Mediaeval Hebrew; Classical Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic); ‘World Religions’.