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Postgraduate Research at the ERC
The ERC is developing as a centre for doctoral research and training in employment studies. Academic staff within the ERC supervise doctoral students within the Department of Sociology; other doctoral students are also attached to the ERC as research assistants. In autumn 2010 the ERC plans to introduce a new MSc in European Employment Studies. This course will also be available on a part-time basis. Further details will be available in September 2009.
Please click here for details of previous postgraduate researchers.
Postgraduates
ALICJA BOBEK
Alicja is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and a research student on the Migrant Careers and Aspiration project. Her interests include migration, labour market, social networks and ethnicity and cultural studies. Her research is focused on highly skilled Polish workers in Ireland , their migrant networks and the relation of migrants’ social integration to their performance on the labour market.
Alicja has an MA in Sociology and an MA in Migration and Ethnic Studies from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow . She previously worked as a research assistant on the Global Networks Programme in the Institute for International Integration Studies in TCD.
contact bobeka@tcd.ie
JEAN CUSHEN
Jean's research interests include shareholder capitalism, corporate culture, HRM and the employment experience. She is exploring these issues by conducting a six month ethnographic analysis of an Irish subsidiary of a listed muilti-national firm. Jean is being supervised by Professor James Wickham and she is in receipt of a postgraduate scholarship from the Irish Reseach Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
contact: cushenjl@tcd.ie
EMMA CALVERT
Emma holds a Masters in Sociology from University College Dublin and is currently registered as a PhD student under the supervision of Professor James Wickham. Her doctoral research, funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, explores workplace bullying in the public and private sector. She is a member of the British Sociological Association and the Sociological Association of Ireland.
contact: calvere@tcd.ie
ANTJE ROEDER
Antje holds a BA in European Studies and an MA in Sociology (Applied Social Research) from the University of Limerick and is now a PhD candidate under the supervision of Dr. Peter Muhlau. Her research focuses on cross-country effects of migration, in particular the transfer of cultural value systems between country of origin and host country and the impact of the migration experience at the individual and group level. Other research interests are the aesthetisation of consumption, visual semiotics and the social construction of the home, which were part of her MA thesis. She is also involved in teaching quantititive research methods to undergraduate sociology students at TCD. Antje is funded by the Trinity Immigration Initiative as part of the 'National Survey of Immigrants in Ireland' project that aims to study the integration of migrant workers in Irish workplaces.
contact: roedera@tcd.ie
JUSTYNA SALAMOŃSKA
Justyna is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and a research student on the Migrant Careers and Aspirations project. Her research interests include migration, mobility, labour markets, and the sociology of organizations.
Justyna has a BA in Philosophy and an MA in Sociology from the University of Warsaw . She was also an Erasmus student at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
contact: salamonj@tcd.ie
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