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.
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 Mobibility across Immigrant Generations in Scandinavia: Equal Life Chances in Egalitarian Welfare States? | In-person |
| Mar 4 | No Seminar | ||
| 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 |
| April 1 |
Hao Cui (Research Fellow, TCD) |
From Humans to Algorithms: Gender Bias in the Perception of Managerial Authority | In-person |
| April 8 |
Annelise Mennicke (Associate Professor, University of North Carolina) |
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
|
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 |
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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
|
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)
Local contact: Jan |
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! |
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Nov 5 |
Richard Layte
|
t.b.c. |
In-person |
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Nov 12
|
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
|
t.b.c. |
Online |
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Nov 26 |
Jonghyun Kwak
|
Meritocratic Culture and Trust in Political Institutions |
In-person |
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Dec 3 |
Ryan Alberto Ó Giobúin 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 |