Associate Professor Grund at the European Commission's JRC

Our staff member Associate Professor Grund was invited to teach an "Introduction to Social Network Analysis in Stata" to the European Commission's Joint Research Centre. The JRC is the European Commission's science and knowledge service centre and provides direct input to EU policy. Dr. Grund has written and maintains a software package for social network analysis in Stata that is used by over 40 000 people worldwide. Nice to see our staff members having an impact!

Lunch time seminar by Sociology PhD student Travis Tatum, Thursday 27 September, 1pm.

School of Sociology seminar series - 'Accusation and confession discrepancies in bullying: Dual-perspective networks and individual-level attributes'

Travis Tatum PhD student - UCD Sociology
Thursday 27th September, 1pm. Room D418, Newman Building.

All welcome to attend, tea and coffee will be served before the seminar and please feel free to bring along your lunch. 

First seminar of the semester by Professor Robert M. Hayden will take place this Thursday 20 September.

School of Sociology seminar series - 'Stealing the Bosnian census, 2013-16: The Purposeful Distortion of Pseudoprecision' 

Professor Robert M. Hayden (University of Pittsburgh)
Thursday 20th September, 1pm. Room D418, Newman Building
All welcome to attend.

It has been a busy week at the School of Sociology

This week the School of Sociology welcomed our incoming undergraduate students who dropped by to meet with their academic mentors. We also welcomed our new PhD and Masters students for meet and greets and orientation.

 MSc Comparative Social Change group with academic staff from UCD and Trinity.














MSc Social Data Analytics students with programme Coordinator Diane Payne.










                                                                            

Staff from the School of Sociology and PhD students at meet and greet welcome lunch.

The School of Sociology welcomes Professor Randall Collins

The School of Sociology was delighted to welcome Randall Collins this week, who participated in the Sociology of Randall Collins Workshop on Tuesday and also launched the new book by Steven Loyal 'State Power and Asylum Seekers in Ireland' yesterday evening. Today Prof. Randall Collins will be awarded an honorary PhD from UCD.

New podcast: Kieran Allen talking about Marx

In this new episode of "Dublin Calling - the student podcast" our PhD student Grainne McKeever talks with Associate Professor Kieran Allen (UCD) about Karl Marx, capitalism, financial crises and the modern world.