Welcome to the School of Social Work and Social Policy
A warm welcome to the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin. The School is proud to offer a wide range of programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as a range of opportunities for postgraduate research students. The School inherits a strong legacy based on over 80 years work in the Department of Social Studies and its focus on social work and social policy. The School has a long and continuing tradition of widely recognised excellence in social work education and also has a growing record of involvement in teaching and research in social policy stretching back to the 1960s. In research and teaching, the School seeks to contribute to building knowledge about how to respond more effectively to the social issues of our day. The range of disciplines and strengths in the School creates rich opportunities for synergies and collaborative 'joined-up' thinking about complex multi-dimensional issues.
On this website you will find information on courses for undergraduate, postgraduate and research students. The site also provides details of our current Faculty and Administration staff, with links to our research, publications, public lectures and events. We hope that you find the School website interesting and informative. If you have any further queries or suggestions please do not hesitate to contact us.
Upcoming Events
- Postgraduate Open Day will take place on January 21, 2016 in the Examination Hall, Trinity College Dublin from 4-7pm. Further information can be found here
Latest News
Postgraduate Open Day, January 21 2016
Postgraduate Open Day will take place this month, on Thursday 21 January 2016, 4-7PM. The event will be held in the Examination Hall/Public Theatre. All our postgraduate programmes will be represented at our stand. Please come by to see us if you are interested in any of the programmes. Further information is available here
Professor Robbie Gilligan writes Op-Ed in the Journal.ie on children in care
Professor Robbie Gilligan has written a piece now available on the Journal.ie exploring how attentive the Irish State is to the educational progress of the population of children in its care. Further details are available here
New Trinity MOOC to be launched in February 2016
In early February 2016, Trinity will launch a new MOOC (massive open online course) on Ageing. Instructors on the course include Prof. Virpi Timonen of the School of Social Work & Social Policy. Anyone can participate for free (around 8,000 people have signed up so far), but you must register in order to be able to access the course contents. Details on registration can be found here