Our weekly research seminar series brings together scholars from Trinity and beyond to present and discuss their latest work. Covering a wide range of sociological topics, these seminars provide a space for critical engagement with current research and emerging debates.

Department of Sociology, Research Seminar 25/26

Seminars take place every Wednesday from 3-4pm, with a mix of in-person and online sessions. All are welcome to attend.

Note: In-Person sessions will take place on the 6th floor conference room in College Green. The Eircode is D02 XH 97.

For online access, please email sociology@tcd.ie

 

HILARY TERM

Date

Speaker

Title

Venue

Jan 21

Veronique Altglas

(Senior Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast)

Judaizing Christianity and Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland: For God, Israel, and Ulster

Online

Jan 28

Stefanie Sprong

(Postdoctoral researcher, Utrecht University)

Measuring cumulative discrimination across life domains - Evidence from harmonised field experiments in nine European countries

Online

Feb 4

Man Yee Kan

(Professor, University of Oxford)

Gender differences in leisure time in East Asian and Western societies

Online

Feb 11

Waleed Serhan

(Teaching Fellow, TCD)

Patient and public representatives in healthcare decision-making contexts in Ireland: The coproduction of local and expert knowledge

In-person

Feb 18

Brenda Mondragon Toledo

(Teaching Fellow, TCD)

Crafting a Feminist Self: Politicising Textile Practices

In-person

Feb 25

Said Hassan

(Postdoctoral fellow, University of Oxford)

Earnings Mobility across Immigrant Generations in Scandinavia: Equal Life Chances in Egalitarian Welfare States?

In-person

Mar 4

NO SEMINAR – READING WEEK!

 

 

Mar 11

Hannah Pool

(Senior researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies)

The Game: The Economy of Undocumented Migration from Afghanistan to Europe

Online

Mar 18

Boróka Bó

(Assistant Professor, UCD)

Victory Run: Tracking Senior Entrepreneurship with Inclusive AI-Powered Surveys

In-person

Mar 25

Robert Dorschel

(Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge)

The Social Codes of Tech Workers—Book Talk

Online

Apr 1

Hao Cui

(Research Fellow, TCD)

From Humans to Algorithms: Gender Bias in the Perception of Managerial Authority

In-person

Apr 8

Annelise Mennicke

(Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte)

Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Can Bystander Intervention be Applied to Alcohol Misuse to Prevent Sexual Assault? 

In-person

 

MICHAELMAS TERM

 

Date

Speaker

Title

Venue

Sept 17

 

Marco Seegers

Post-doctoral research fellow at Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Bonn/Germany

 

Equalizer or amplifier? The role of further education for social inequality

In-person

Sept 24

Yannik Stelter

PhD candidate, Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Frankfurt/Germany

 

The Impact of Horizontal and Vertical Disparities on Digital Inequality

 

In-person

Oct 1

Ilyar Heydari Barardehi

Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin.

Socioeconomic Inequality and the Role of Parental Expectations in Track and Subject-Level Placement in Irish Secondary Education

In-person

Oct 8

 

Ian Ross MacMillan

Professor of Sociology at University of Limerick

 

Shelter from the Storm: Cohort differences in pandemic exposures and mental health in the early life course

In-person

Oct 15

Katy Morris

(Post-doctoral research fellow at Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University)

 

The Labour Market Link: Local occupational change and Brexit support

Online

Oct 22

Michael Byrne

(Assistant Professor at School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice at University College Dublin)

 

The political economy of the private rental sector: inequality and change

In-person

Oct 29

NO SEMINAR – READING WEEK!

 

 

Nov 5

Richard Layte

 

When do socio-economic inequalities in non-cognitive skills emerge in childhood what does this tell us?

In-person

Nov 12

 

Larissa Meier

(Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, TCD)

 

Repression and Coping in High-Risk Political Activism: Dynamics and Practices

In-person

Nov 19

Mastorueh Fathi
Lecturer in Sociology at University College Cork

 

Taste of Home: Men’s Food Practices in Migration

Online

Nov 26

Jonghyun Kwak
(Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, TCD)

 

 

Meritocratic Culture and Trust in Political Institutions

In-person

Dec 3

Ryan Alberto Gibbons

Senior Researcher, INVEST Research Flagship Centre, University of Turku, Finland

Secondary effects of social origin during periods of economic contraction: a Finnish register-based analysis

Online