'Morals and Markets' in Royal Irish Academy, Thursday 9th November

We are pleased to invite you to the event 'Morals and Markets' in the Royal Irish Academy on Thursday 9 November, 11am. The event is partly organized by Prof. Andreas Hess from the School of Sociology (UCD). All are welcome.

Dr. Grund featured in UCD Connections magazine on internationalization

The latest edition of the UCD Connections Alumni Magazine features an interview with Dr. Grund (School of Sociology, UCD) about life as an international scholar at UCD and about internationalization at university more generally.

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Huge congrats to Dr. Andreas Hess for promotion to Professor

We are very happy to congratulate our colleague Dr. Andreas Hess for his successful promotion to the academic rank of "Professor" at UCD. Well done! Here is a link to Andreas' research profile.

Podcast specials with Michael Macy, Wander Jager and ESSA conference participants

In these three podcast specials our students talk with Prof. Michael Macy (Cornell University) about (un-)predictability, Dr. Wander Jager (University of Groningen) about challenges for the social simulation community and with participants of the Social Simulation Conference 2017 - the annual conference of the European Social Simulation Conference held in Dublin - about shirking, fake news and fish.

Podcast special with Jos Elkink on North Korea

In this podcast special of "Dublin Calling" we talk with Jos Elkink (UCD, School of Politics and International Relations) about defection from North Korea. The podcast was recorded at the Social Simulation Conference 2017, the annual conference of the European Social Simulation Association, which took place at UCD.

Podcast special with Rainer Hegselmann and Nigel Gilbert

Another podcast special of "Dublin Calling" from the Social Simulation Conference 2017. This time we talk with Prof. Rainer Hegselmann from the University of Bayreuth and with Prof. Nigel Gilbert from the University of Surrey. Both are eminent scholars in the field of Social Simulation.

Podcast special with Flaminio Squazzoni

New episode of "Dublin Calling" - the podcast series of the School of Sociology at UCD. This time directly from the Social Simulation Conference 2017, which was held in Dublin in September 2017. In this episode, our students Mark Doyle, Grainne McKeever and Barbara Moore together with our faculty member Dr. Thomas Grund talk with Prof. Flaminio Squazzoni from the University of Brescia. Flaminio has also been former president of the European Social Simulation Association.