The Employment Research Centre (ERC) is a group of researchers at Trinity College Dublin. Our research is on employment policies and practices in Ireland and Europe. Our main background is in sociology, but we see employment studies as an area of interdisciplinary research: ERC researchers have also come from business studies, economics and political science. Our most recent project Learning from Poland compares contemporary Irish emigration with migration from Poland in the last decade.

Conference Announcement

International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation
34^th Annual conference in Trinity College Dublin 12-14 September 2013.
Paper submission here; for further details please consult our IWPLMS 2013 page.

 

Did you graduate in 2012?
Did you study at TCD, UCC, DIT or Waterford Institute of Technology?
Are you now living abroad?
If you would like to participate the link will be available soon.

 

The ERC carries out funded research projects usually lasting several years. Research summaries, papers and articles referring to these projects are downloadable from this web site free of charge. On this site you will also find information on our seminars and symposia. These activities promote discussion between Irish and International academics, policy makers and other relevant social actors. To encourage discussion in a wider arena we publish occasional newsletters which provide information on the state of our projects.

The ERC also carries out short-term contract research and consultancy in equal opportunities (audits and evaluations) and labour market analysis. On the teaching front, the ERC is associated with Trinity College Dublin's postgraduate researchers.

Within Trinity College Dublin we are located within the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy and associated with the Department of Sociology

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