Research Centres
Employment Research Centre
Research carried out by Trinity’s Employment Research Centre (ERC) focuses on employment policies and practices in Ireland and Europe. Researchers are mainly sociologists but the centre sees employment studies as an area of interdisciplinary research and ERC researchers have also come from business studies, economics and political science.
Research projects have explored issues such as women's work in the Irish information technology sector, the role of third level education in regional development, the development of labour market flexibility within small European countries and changes in employment and the European social model.
Current research is focused on the relationship between employment and mobility.
Institute for International Integration Studies
While it is not formally part of the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, many members of the School contribute to the activities of the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS). The Institute, which was established in 2002, is dedicated to the promotion of research on the myriad dimensions of global and regional integration.
Plato Centre
The Plato Centre organises and directs a variety of activities in the area of the history of Platonism and contemporary philosophy in the Platonist tradition. Although based in Trinity College, the Centre draws its members from all the major universities in the Dublin area. It combines several subject areas in addition to its core disciplines: philosophy and classics.