Events Listing
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Dr Phil Mullen to speak at Dublin book festival event
The event will feature Dr Phil Mullen in conversation with journalist and broadcaster Afua Hirsch as part of the "Thinking Aloud, Thinking Together" series.
08 Nov 2025
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Dr Phil Mullen to preview podcast series "In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland" in live conversation
The event, taking place Thursday, October 2 in the Thomas Davis Theatre, is part of the Thinking Aloud, Thinking Together series of live and recorded conversations.
30 Sep 2025
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Seminar Series: Michaelmas Term 2025
Our weekly research seminar series brings together scholars from Trinity and beyond to present and discuss their latest work.
17 Sep 2025
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Public Autumn Series 2025
Join Professor Taha Yasseri from Trinity College Dublin on Sept 25 for a free public lecture as he explores how AI is reshaping human behaviour, agency and social systems.
25 Sep 2025
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Inaugural Lecture of Prof Taha Yasseri
Join us for the inaugural lecture of Professor Taha Yasseri in the Thomas Davis Theatre on Tuesday, April 1st.
01 Apr 2025
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SOHAM Launch Workshop
Join us for the launch of the TCD-TU Dublin Joint Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines (SOHAM) on April 1st.
01 Apr 2025
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Professor Taha Yasseri to present at Talk with Trinity Series
Professor Taha Yasseri will be presenting "If Siri Was Your Sister – Does it Matter if AI is Male or Female?" on Wednesday, 12th March.
12 Mar 2025
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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
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Venue |
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Jan 21 |
Veronique Altglas (Senior Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast) |
Judaizing Christianity and Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland: For God, Israel, and Ulster |
Online |
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Jan 28 |
Stefanie Sprong (Postdoctoral researcher, Utrecht University) |
Measuring cumulative discrimination across life domains - Evidence from harmonised field experiments in nine European countries |
Online |
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Feb 4 |
Man Yee Kan (Professor, University of Oxford) |
Gender differences in leisure time in East Asian and Western societies |
Online |
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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 |
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Feb 18 |
Brenda Mondragon Toledo (Teaching Fellow, TCD) |
Crafting a Feminist Self: Politicising Textile Practices |
In-person |
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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 |
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Mar 4 |
NO SEMINAR – READING WEEK! |
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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 |
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Mar 18 |
Boróka Bó (Assistant Professor, UCD) |
Victory Run: Tracking Senior Entrepreneurship with Inclusive AI-Powered Surveys |
In-person |
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Mar 25 |
Robert Dorschel (Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge) |
The Social Codes of Tech Workers—Book Talk |
Online |
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Apr 1 |
Hao Cui (Research Fellow, TCD) |
From Humans to Algorithms: Gender Bias in the Perception of Managerial Authority |
In-person |
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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
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Venue |
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Sept 17
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Marco Seegers Post-doctoral research fellow at Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Bonn/Germany
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Equalizer or amplifier? The role of further education for social inequality |
In-person |
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Sept 24 |
Yannik Stelter PhD candidate, Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Frankfurt/Germany
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The Impact of Horizontal and Vertical Disparities on Digital Inequality
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In-person |
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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 |
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Oct 8
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Ian Ross MacMillan Professor of Sociology at University of Limerick
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Shelter from the Storm: Cohort differences in pandemic exposures and mental health in the early life course |
In-person |
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Oct 15 |
Katy Morris (Post-doctoral research fellow at Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University)
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The Labour Market Link: Local occupational change and Brexit support |
Online |
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Oct 22 |
Michael Byrne (Assistant Professor at School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice at University College Dublin)
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The political economy of the private rental sector: inequality and change |
In-person |
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Oct 29 |
NO SEMINAR – READING WEEK! |
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Nov 5 |
Richard Layte
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When do socio-economic inequalities in non-cognitive skills emerge in childhood what does this tell us? |
In-person |
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Nov 12
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Larissa Meier (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, TCD)
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Repression and Coping in High-Risk Political Activism: Dynamics and Practices |
In-person |
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Nov 19 |
Mastorueh Fathi
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Taste of Home: Men’s Food Practices in Migration |
Online |
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Nov 26 |
Jonghyun Kwak
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Meritocratic Culture and Trust in Political Institutions |
In-person |
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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 |