Research Profile of Departmental Staff

The research interests of staff span a wide range of areas in sociology. These include:

• Comparative Research
• Cultural identity
• Development
• Education and Educatoin Policy
• Economic and Social Policy
• European Employment and Policy
• Ethnic and Racial Studies
• Food and Social Change
• Gender Roles
• Globalization
• Identity Politics
• Immigrant Incorporation
• Migration and Diaspora
• Rural Sociology
• Social Attitudes
• Social exclusion
• Sociology of Ireland: North and South
• Work-Life Balance

The Department is home to the Employment Research Centre and the Social Attitude and Policy Research Group. Three members of the Department are Principal Investigators within the research programme of the Trinity Immigration Initiative. The Department also has close links with the Institute for International Integration Studies and the Policy Institute.