DrClare Ní Cheallaigh

Clare Ní Cheallaigh is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the project "Sustainable and Collaborative Research Information for Bibliodiverse Ecosystems: A Transnational Study" (SCRiBe), which is led by Prof. Lai Ma and funded by the ERC Consolidator Grant (2025-2030). Her research on this project examines the ideological underpinnings of open research projects in Africa. In 2025, she completed her PhD in the School of English, Drama and Film at UCD, with a thesis entitled "Orality and Authorship: African storyteller-authors in the literary marketplace 1938-2024.”  Her PhD research was funded by an Ad Astra doctoral scholarship and she also holds an MSt in World Literatures in English from the University of Oxford.