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  • Book Launch: Social Networks And Migration - Relocations, Relationships and Resources

    17 Nov 2023
    Book Launch: Social Networks And Migration - Relocations, Relationships and Resources

    Join us for the launch of Professor Louise Ryan's book at 4pm on Nov 20th at the Dora Allman Room in the HUB, UCC,

    This event takes places as part of the UCC Futures Festival of Social Sciences.

    Leading migration researcher Louise Ryan's topical and intersectional book provides rich insights into migrants' social networks. It draws on more than 200 interviews with migrants who followed various transnational routes in every decade since the 1940s, in order to build valuable longitudinal perspectives and comparisons. With a particular focus on London, it charts how social networks are formed and sustained, how trust is developed and how social support is accessed, and explores the key oppportunities and obstacles that migrants might encounter.

    This is a seminal fusion of migration studies and social network analysis that casts new light on both subjects essential for those interested in immigration, ethnicity, diversity and inequalities. 

    Professor Louise Ryan is Senior Professor of Sociology and Director of the Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre at London Metropolitan University.

    Refreshments served from 3.45pm.

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  • Belonging & Narrative Symposium

    15 Sep 2023
    Belonging & Narrative Symposium

    Congratulations to Dr Mastoureh Fathi for organising this exciting symposium, and Department of Sociology & Criminology, UCC, and The Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century, UCC, for supporting it:

    Belonging and Narrative Symposium,

    Sept 20, 13.00-16.00 

    ORB G027

     

    Belonging & Narrative Symposium Programme

     

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  • Professor Maggie O'Neill elected to the Royal Irish Academy

    30 May 2023
    Professor Maggie O'Neill elected to the Royal Irish Academy

    Congratulations to Professor Maggie O'Neill on being elected to the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), the highest academic honour in Ireland! All of us in the Department of Sociology & Criminology, UCC, are very proud of Maggie's success. This wonderful recognition comes a few months after the great news that Maggie is now the Director of UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures and incoming Director of ISS21 in July - The Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century.

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  • Migration and Hostile Environments, New Series: Volume 3, Issue 2, 3 April 2023

    04 Apr 2023
    Migration and Hostile Environments, New Series: Volume 3, Issue 2, 3 April 2023

    Congratulations to Professor Louise Ryan, our Visiting Professor, who leads this special editon of Discover Society and Professor Maggie O'Neill who has an article in it - Migration & Hostile Environments, New Series, Volume 3, Issue 2, 3 April 2023.

    This issue of Discover Society brings together discussions of groups who are often considered separately, in order to explore how anti-immigration policies and discourses operate across and within national and ethnic groups.  The authors are all leading researchers and thinkers in their field and use empirical evidence to bring novel insights into this timely and highly topical social issue.

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  • Congratulations Maggie!

    01 Mar 2023
    Congratulations Maggie!

    Congratulations to Professor Maggie O'Neill, Department of Sociology & Criminology who is one of the 2023 Traveller Ally Award winners!

    To mark Traveller Ethnicity Day@corktravellerw1 & @tvgcorkclg  announced the winners of their annual Traveller Ally Awards recognising Cork based organisations & champions who have created welcoming spaces for Travellers & supported Traveller rights and culture.

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  • Online event to mark International Women's Day

    24 Feb 2023
    Online event to mark International Women's Day

    The Department of Sociology & Criminology and Women's Studies, University College Cork are delighted to celebrate International Women's Day wth a book launch of a new book by Dr Red Washburn IRISH WOMEN’S PRISON WRITING. MOTHER IRELAND’S REBELS 1960s-2010s

    Wed, 8 March 2023, 18:00 – 20:00 GMT 

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  • Sociology & Criminology PhD Students to present papers at the 2023 CACSSS Postgraduate Conference

    17 Feb 2023
    Sociology & Criminology PhD Students to present papers at the 2023 CACSSS Postgraduate Conference

    The Graduate School 2023 Postgraduate blended Conference takes place on February 22nd and 23rd, papers presented online on the 22nd and in person on the 23rd of February.

    We are delighted that PhD candidates from the Department of Sociology and Criminology will be presenting papers at both sessions.

    Joanna Sarah Moore (Sociology), Doris Murphy (Sociology & Women’s Studies), Emily Phelan (Criminology), Pooja Priya (Sociology), Michael Rose (Sociology & Criminology), and Karla Santos Zambrano (Sociology & Criminology).

    Dr Mastoureh Fathi, (Post Graduate Director, Department of Sociology and Criminology) will chair Panel Nine on February 23rd: Identities and Iterations of Exile, Displacement and Otherness

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  • Newly awarded research funding through the 2022 Irish Research Council (IRC) New Foundations awards for Dr Tracey Skillington

    15 Feb 2023
    Newly awarded research funding through the 2022 Irish Research Council (IRC) New Foundations awards for Dr Tracey Skillington

    Congratulations to Dr Tracey Skillington, Department of Sociology and Criminology, CACSSS) on being awarded research funding which has been made available through the 2022 Irish Research Council (IRC) New Foundations awards.

    Tracey's project explores the ways in which local representations of wildlife as culturally familiar symbols of shared city life, offer a means of situating biodiversity and sustainable development imperatives more firmly within everyday public reasoning and increasing receptivity to climate action goals.

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  • WoBla Project: Dr Dyuti Chakravarty joins our Department as a Postdoctoral Scholar under the mentorship of Dr Theresa O'Keefe.

    07 Feb 2023
    WoBla Project: Dr Dyuti Chakravarty joins our Department as a Postdoctoral Scholar under the mentorship of Dr Theresa O'Keefe.

    Dr Dyuti Chakravarty has joined our Department as a Postdoctoral Scholar where she will be working on an HEA-funded project Women of the Borderlands: A Walking Biographical Study of Women's Everyday Life on the UK/Irish Border under the mentorship of Dr Theresa O'Keefe. Welcome Dyuti!

    Details of the WoBla project

     

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  • Call – Young Sociologist of the Year Award

    26 Jan 2023
    Call – Young Sociologist of the Year Award

    Call – Young Sociologist of the Year Award

    The Young Sociologist of the Year award is an essay-based competition hosted by the Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI) and the Department of Sociology and Criminology, UCC. We are delighted to see that so many Leaving Cert students have chosen the Politics and Society option and so many Northern Irish students are pursuing A Level Sociology. We want to encourage and reward students who are learning to think about how the society we live in is structured and organised.

    Competition Prizes top student entries:

    • 1st place – €500 gift voucher
    • 2nd place – €100 gift voucher
    • 3rd place (x3) – €50 gift voucher

    Teachers of the winning students will be awarded: 1st place – €100 gift voucher; 2nd place – €50 gift voucher; 3rd place (x3) – €50 gift voucher

    If you are interested in societal structures, themes such as gender, class, migration, or development, or even if you would just like to have your essay read and assessed by a sociology academic, then this competition is for you!

    Apply here: https://sociology.ie/schools-and-young-sociologists/

     

     

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  • Dear Diary: Equality Implications for Female Academics of Changes to Working Practices In Lockdown and Beyond. Gender, Space and the Pandemic-implications for staff in HE

    20 Jan 2023
    Dear Diary: Equality Implications for Female Academics of Changes to Working Practices In Lockdown and Beyond.  Gender, Space and the Pandemic-implications for staff in HE

    UCC Equality Committee and the Department of Sociology and Criminology are delighted to welcome Dr Kate Carruthers to deliver an interactive workshop based on her 2021 www.deardiaryresearch.co.uk with female academics in the UK of working practices, career progression and academic identity during the pandemic. ALL WELCOME. Refreshments will be available.

    Kate will deliver a two-hour workshop 15th February, 11-1pm, ORB G27  on the theme of Gender, Space and the Pandemic-implications for staff in HE based on her ‘dear diary’ research.

    Reserve your place on Eventbrite

    In the interactive session we will use content from the Dear Diary Archive to prompt reflection on themes emerging from the archive and the longer-term impacts and implications of the pandemic for our working lives in the Irish HE sector. 

     

     

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  • Coping with COVID in Prison: The Impact of Prisoner Lockdown Findings from a peer-led research study - Departmental/Public Seminar by Professor Shadd Maruna (QUB)

    19 Jan 2023
    Coping with COVID in Prison: The Impact of Prisoner Lockdown
Findings from a peer-led research study - Departmental/Public Seminar by
Professor Shadd Maruna (QUB)

    We are delighted to welcome Professor Shadd Maruna (QUB) to UCC to present a Departmental/Public Seminar:

    Coping with COVID in Prison: The Impact of Prisoner Lockdown. Findings from a peer-led research study. Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 13.00-14.30, Shtepps, Student Hub 2nd Floor, UCC.

    ALL welcome!

     

     

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  • Call for Proposals - Biographical Research across a wide range of areas

    16 Jan 2023
    Call for Proposals - Biographical Research across a wide range of areas

    Biographical research has a long and diverse genealogy, and its methods are connected across interdisciplinary boundaries by the interpretive storytelling of lives and experiences. These methods help us to gain insights into the workings of contemporary society and the relationship between biographical, personal and collective social issues. The growth and variety of biographical research methods challenges the disciplinary boundaries of biographical sociology and narrative methods by engaging in collaborative work with artists, film makers, geographers, historians and musicians. This book series provides a platform for authors who are exploring theoretical and methodological advances in biographical methods. It features innovative and experimental contemporary biographical scholarship alongside more established traditions, including oral history, narrative sociology, biographical narrative interview methods, free association narrative interview methods, in-depth hermeneutic life histories, artsbased and performative biographical research.

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  • Political Anthropology as Method Jan 17th, 2023, 11-1pm, Safari 01, Donovan's Road.

    16 Jan 2023
     Political Anthropology as Method

Jan 17th, 2023, 11-1pm, Safari 01, Donovan's Road.

    Department of Sociology & Criminology Seminar:

    We are delighted to welcome our Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Prof Arpad Szakolczai to give our first seminar of 2023.

     

    Political Anthropology as Method

    Professor Arpad Szakolczai

    Jan 17th, 2023, 11-1pm, Safari 01, Donovan's Road, UCC.

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  • Celebrating Scholarship Ceremony - Academics

    09 Dec 2022
    Celebrating Scholarship Ceremony - Academics

    Some of our Academic staff were celebrating at the recent Celebrating Scholarship Ceremony as well as the celebrations for our 7 amazing undergraduate award winners!

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