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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 26/27
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 in Room 5039, Arts Building in Michaelmas Term.
In-Person sessions will take place in Room 3025, Arts Building in Hilary Term.
For online access, please email sociology@tcd.ie
MICHAELMAS TERM
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Venue |
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Sep 16 |
Mark Ward (Associate Professor, Trinity College Dublin) |
Global Study of the Macro- and Individual-Level Causes and Consequences of Loneliness (GLOMoL) |
In person; Room 5039 |
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Sep 23 |
Izabela Janssen-Wnorowska (Visiting PhD Candidate, University of Vienna, Austria) |
Coexistence in Heterogeneous Neighborhoods: Boundary-Making in Layered Conflicts, Withdrawal as Affective Agency and Asymmetrical Labor in Interethnic Neighborly Relations |
In person; Room 5039 |
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Sep 30 |
Orla Kelly (Assistant Professor, University College Dublin) |
Golf, Housework or Parenting? A gendered examination of time use on the 4-day Week Trials |
In person; Room 5039 |
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Oct 7 |
William Foley (Research Fellow, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) |
Separating the impact of structure, agency, and luck on the life course |
In person; Room 5039 |
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Oct 14 |
Christina Cross (Associate Professor, Harvard University, United States) |
Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families |
Online |
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Oct 21 |
Niall Costello (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, TILDA) |
Holding on while they let go: International trends of changes in life satisfaction among informal care givers of spouses with normal, mild and severe cognitive impairment |
In person; Room 5039 |
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Oct 28 |
NO SEMINAR – READING WEEK! |
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Nov 4 |
Marta Eichsteller (Assistant Professor, University College Dublin) |
Beyond Empowerment: African Feminist Praxis as Biographical Process |
In person; Room 5039 |
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Nov 11 |
Jacob Richard Thomas (Assistant Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary) |
Denial, Deterrence, and Disenchantment: Why Many Never Immigrate |
Online |
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Nov 18 |
David Kretschmer (Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin) |
From Debate to Distance? How Public Opinion about Religious Veiling Affects Western Muslims’ Identification, Intergroup Relations, and Societal Participation |
In person; Room 5039 |
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Nov 25 |
Thembi Luckett (Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin) |
Depletion and repair: Women’s health, care and repair in the shadow of South Africa’s largest coal mine and power station |
In person; Room 5039 |
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Dec 2 |
Camille Portier (Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin) |
Gender-Essentialized Skills, the Gender Wage Gap and the Moderating Role of Educational Attainment. |
In person; Room 5039 |
See below for details of our Seminar Series from the 2025/6 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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17/9/25
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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 |
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24/9/25 |
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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1/10/25 |
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 |
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8/10/25
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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 |
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15/10/25 |
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 |
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22/10/25 |
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 |
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Oct 29 |
NO SEMINAR – READING WEEK! |
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5/11/25 |
Richard Layte
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When do socio-economic inequalities in non-cognitive skills emerge in childhood what does this tell us? |
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12/11/25
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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 |
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19/11/25 |
Mastorueh Fathi
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Taste of Home: Men’s Food Practices in Migration |
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26/11/25 |
Jonghyun Kwak
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Meritocratic Culture and Trust in Political Institutions |
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3/12/25 |
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 |
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21/1/26 |
Veronique Altglas (Senior Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast) |
Judaizing Christianity and Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland: For God, Israel, and Ulster |
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28/1/26 |
Stefanie Sprong (Postdoctoral researcher, Utrecht University) |
Measuring cumulative discrimination across life domains - Evidence from harmonised field experiments in nine European countries |
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11/2/26 |
Waleed Serhan (Teaching Fellow, TCD) |
Patient and public representatives in healthcare decision-making contexts in Ireland: The coproduction of local and expert knowledge |
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18/2/26 |
Brenda Mondragon Toledo (Teaching Fellow, TCD) |
Crafting a Feminist Self: Politicising Textile Practices |
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25/2/26 |
Said Hassan (Postdoctoral fellow, University of Oxford) |
A Muslim School Advantage? Evidence from a Natural Experiment Note venue change: TRiSS Seminar Room |
| 4/3/26 |
STUDY WEEK (no seminar)
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11/3/26 |
Hannah Pool (Senior researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies) |
The Game: The Economy of Undocumented Migration from Afghanistan to Europe |
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18/3/26 |
Boróka Bó (Assistant Professor, UCD) |
Victory Run: Tracking Senior Entrepreneurship with Inclusive AI-Powered Surveys |
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25/3/26 |
Robert Dorschel (Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge) |
The Social Codes of Tech Workers—Book Talk |
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1/4/26 |
Hao Cui (Research Fellow, TCD) |
Gender Bias in Perceptions of Human Managers Extends to AI Managers |
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8/4/26 |
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? |
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 |