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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
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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t.b.c. |
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 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 |
See below for details of our Seminar Series from the 2024/5 Academic Year:
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
| Date | Name | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|
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18/09/2024 |
Jan Skopek Associate Professor, Trinity College Dublin |
The causal effect of schooling on social inequality in learning: Quasi-experimental evidence from half-a-millon students in Italy 6th Floor Conference Room, College Green |
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25/09/2024 |
Daniela Grunow Professor of Sociology, University of Frankfurt |
Multidimensionality of socio-structural change Online |
| 02/10/2024 |
Sarah McMahon Associate Professor in School of Social Work, Rutgers University, USA |
The role of power and identity in bystander intervention approaches (data from studies with students, university employees, and workplace employees) 6th Floor Conference Room, College Green |
| 09/10/2024 |
Attila Márton Associate Professor, Department of Digitalization, Copenhagen Business School |
Nomadic Digital Technology - Ecological Thinking at the End of Modernity? Online |
| 16/10/2024 |
Annatina Aerne Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin |
Employer Cooperation in Referral Networks 6th Floor Conference Room, College Green |
| 23/10/2024 |
STUDY WEEK (no seminar)
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| 30/10/2024 |
David Landy Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin |
Fragments of Victory: Discussing the Irish Left during the recession 6th Floor Conference Room, College Green |
| 06/11/2024 |
Nicole Kapelle Assistant Professor, Trinity Colege Dublin |
Uncovering What Matters: Family Life Course Aspects and Personal Wealth in Late Working Ag 6th Floor Conference Room, College Green |
| 13/11/2024 |
Anabel Quan-Haas Professor of Information and Media Studies and Sociology, University of Western Ontario |
The Spread of #metoo Over Time and Space Online |
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20/11/2024
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David Loic Daniel Reimer Professor of Sociology, University of Iceland |
Interventional Designs in Educational Sociology Online |
| 27/11/2024 |
Markus Lörz Senior Researcher at DIPF, Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Frankfurt |
Digital Divide and Social Inequality and Education Online |
| 22/01/2025 |
Yekaterina Chzhen Assistant Professor in Sociology, Trinity College Dublin |
Understanding family and community vulnerabilities in the transition to Net Zero 6th Floor Conference Room, College Green |
| 29/01/2025 |
Michael Vallely Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin |
Gender, Social Origin and the Intergenerational Transmission of Labour Market Advantage 6th Floor Conference Room, College Green |
| 05/02/2025 |
Richard Layte Professor of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin |
Social Media Use and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents: Longitudinal Evidence from GUI 6th Floor Conference Room, College Green |
| 12/02/2025 |
Titas Biswas PhD candidate at the School of Sociology in UCD |
Pedagogy as Body Politic: Exploring the Saffronised Classroom Setting as a Fascist Space in the Making 6th Floor Conference Room, College Green |
| 19/02/2025 |
Roderick Condon Teaching Fellow in Sociology, Trinity College Dublin |
Emerging Ecological Crisis Tendencies of Democratic Capitalism 6th Floor Conference Room, College Green |
| 26/02/2025 |
James Carr Department of Sociology, University of Limerick |
Public Sociology and Anti-Muslim Racism in Ireland 6th Floor Conference Room, College Green |
| 05/03/2025 |
STUDY WEEK (no seminar)
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| 12/03/2025 |
Roland Erne Professor of European Integration & Employment Relations, School of Business, University College Dublin |
“Politicising Europe” or “Politicising Commodification” - The EU Governance of Employment Relations and Public Services since 2008 and its Discontents 6th Floor Conference Room, College Green |
| 19/03/2025 |
Lisa Schmid (Research Associate at GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Science) Visiting Researcher at Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin |
FReDA – The German Family Demography Panel Study. A New Data Infrastructure 6th Floor Conference Room, College Green |