Sociology News 2016-2017

An interdisciplinary team including Prof Richard Layte (Head of Sociology) and Dr Cathal McCrory (TILDA Senior Research Fellow) have been awarded €750,000 from the Health Research Board of Ireland. The project investigates an allostatic load framework for understanding social differences in health and mortality drawing on The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing.

Sociology Professor, Daniel Faas, led the first systematic empirical study on the Community National Schools, recommending an end to belief-specific teaching, a new role and dialogue between school-parents-parish, and changes to initial teacher education.

The Department of Sociology is proud to announce the election of TSM Sociology student Britta Thiemt to Scholarship on 10th April 2017. The Department wishes Britta every success in the future.

Professor Daniel Faas spoke about “Educational Integration of Migrants and Refugees in Europe” at the EU-US Young Leaders Summit in Brussels, hosted by the European Commission, the European External Action Service and the US Department of State.

Professor Richard Layte, spoke at the recent TEDx Trinity Event. His talk focused on giving insight into reasons for the rise of Nationalism and Populism in recent years. Prof Layte is cited as being one of the main inspirations for setting up the society.

Philomena Mullen (Supervisor: Prof. Daniel Faas) and David Dunne (Supervisor: Dr. David Landy) have been awarded the prestigious PhD scholarship for their work on mixed-race Irish women in institutional care, and theories of ‘nativism’ as technologies of Western intervention.

How can we, as researchers and citizens, support migrants who are at risk? What is the role of formal education in social cohesion? Professor Daniel Faas, Director of the MSc in Comparative Social Change, joined a Trinity panel during Researcher Night to discuss migration.

Research from the Department of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, the ESRI, and UCD Centre of Human Reproduction at the Coombe University Hospital discussed the increasing use of caesarean section in Ireland and associated risks for mothers and infants.

The first intake of the new joint MSc in Comparative Social Change, directed by TCD Head of Sociology Professor Daniel Faas, has commenced their studies today. 12 students from six different countries will study both in Trinity and University College Dublin over the coming year.