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Why do people reason? How does it help them? Peter Stone, Head of the Political Science Department, explores these and other questions in his new review of the book The Enigma of Reason by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber. The review appeared in Philosophy Now Magazine.

Congratulations to Charlotte Bull, Molly Therese Carroll, Ellen McHugh, Giorgio Bechis, Sean Cahill, & Aminata Roth who were recently awarded academic prizes in Political Science!

The inaugural lecture of Sharyn O'Halloran, Chair of Political Economy (2020) took place on November 1st in the Robert Emmet Theatre. The lecture examined “How can Artificial Intelligence Improve Public Policy?”

Peter Stone, Head of Department in Political Science, spoke on September 7th at a public roundtable on “Four Fallacies of Deliberation: The Future of Democracy in Europe.” The event took place in Vienna in conjunction with a meeting of COST Action CA17135: “Constitution-Making & Deliberative Democracy.”

Registration is now open for our September CPD courses in R in Social Data Science and Python in Social Data Science. The courses will be online in the evenings.

Prof. Peter Stone, Head of the Political Science Department, has won the Lee Eisler Service Award from the Bertrand Russell Society. The prize is awarded occasionally “to recognize distinguished service to the Society.”

The Department of Political Science has been ranked in the Top 100 by Subject in the 2022 edition of the QS World University Rankings. Trinity College also placed in the top 100 universities worldwide.

The School of Social Sciences and Philosophy is delighted to welcome Professor Sharyn O’Halloran as the new Chair of Political Economy, joint between Economics and Political Science. The Chair is funded by the HEA as part of the Senior Academic Leadership Initiative.

Professor Peter Stone recently published a review in Philosophy Now. Stone reviewed Why Does Inequality Matter? by leading political philosopher T.M. Scanlon. Stone unpacks Scanlon's complex account of the different reasons people might have for caring about equality.

Professor Peter Stone was interviewed recently on the Finding Genius podcast. “Revolutionizing Democracy: The Benefits of Sortition and Selected Citizens Councils,” discussed the rise of randomly-selected citizen assemblies, with a focus on the Irish experience.

Congratulations to Department of Political Science PhD student Markéta Odlová and Assistant Professor Jeffrey Ziegler on securing TRiSS funding to develop their projects: Minorities and the Military: The Effects of Conscription on Political Engagement (M. Odlová) and Computational Tools for Survey Experiments in the Social Sciences (J. Ziegler).

The Department of Political Science is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Irish Politics, to commence on 1st September 2022. Closing date for receipt of completed applications is no later than 12 Noon GMT on Wednesday 4th May 2022.

The Department of Political Science is introducing 2 new CPD courses - Introduction to Computer Programming for Data Analysis I & Computer Programming for Data Analysis II - deadline to apply is April 20^th

The School is delighted to announce a new summmer internship with Oxfam Ireland, focusing on the areas of policy and advocacy. The deadline to apply is Friday, April 8^th at 17:00.

Applications open now for the continuing professional development course in Applied Machine Learning Using Social Data with Trinity College Dublin.

Boost your career opportunities by gaining new programming skilss with a continuing professional development course from Trinity College Dublin.

Dr. Ziegler joins Trinity from Emory University. In his research, he extends computational methods to the social sciences, focusing on the use of multi-media data (text, audio, images) and experiments.

Dr Paskhalis joins Trinity from New York University, where he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Social Media and Politics. He received his PhD in Social Research Methods from the London School of Economics. His research focuses on political communication, comparative politics and computational analysis of text.

The Department of Political Science is seeking to appoint a Teaching Fellow in International Relations, to commence on 1st September 2021. Closing date for receipt of completed applications is no later than 12 Noon GMT on Thursday 17 June 2021.