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Great success for Transformative Change: Unlocking Institutional Imagination Conference
The Department of Sociology would like to thank all organisers, contributors and participants for such a great conference on Transformative Change: Unlocking Institutional Imagination.
Date: Friday, 05 April 2024
Return-to-office mandates are the ‘opposite’ of evidence-based management
Dr. Tatiana Andreeva discusses with The Irish Times the basics of evidence-based management and how they could help employers to make better-informed decisions - for example, about employee work location (remote, hybrid or back to the office).
Date: Thursday, 04 April 2024
Where to find a framework for your literature review?
A new invited blog post by Dr. Tatiana Andreeva shares tips for those interested in writing a good literature review (and publishing it). Full text:
Date: Thursday, 04 April 2024
Dr Clíodhna Murphy publishes on diverse topics
Dr Murphy has co-authored pieces on The Impact of Article 47 of the Charter in the Irish Legal System
Date: Wednesday, 03 April 2024
Prof. Delia Ferri and Dr. Ann Leahy present DANCING findings at SLSA Annual Conference
The panel contribution focused on results in work package 1 of the DANCING project which aims to identify barriers and facilitators to cultural participation by persons with disabilities in the European Union (EU).
Date: Tuesday, 02 April 2024
Dr Donal Coffey co-edits new book 'The Centenary of the Irish Free State Constitution'
Co-edited with Dr Laura Cahilllad (University of Limerick), this book deals with the role, development, and legacy of the first Constitution of independent Ireland within the wider context of the establishment of the State.
Date: Thursday, 28 March 2024
Postgraduate Research Committee hosts careers event for PhD students
This event featured a keynote presentation by Dr Paolo Cavaliere (Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and IT Law at the University of Edinburgh) on the topic of ‘scholactivism’, the intersection between academia and activism, and two roundtable discussions.
Date: Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Seth Barrett Tillman receives 2024 John Locke Liberty Award
Associate Professor Seth Barrett Tillman has received the 2024 John Locke Award in recognition of his extensive, decades-long work to advance separation of powers and principles of originalism in defense of liberty.
Date: Tuesday, 26 March 2024
ERC DANCING project hosts fourth DANCING Academic Conversation with Dr. Giulia Priora
The DANCING team welcomed Dr. Giulia Priora from NOVA School of Law (Lisbon, Portugal) to present and discuss her research on ‘Distributive Rationales in EU Copyright Law’ which underpins her forthcoming monograph on the topic.
Date: Monday, 25 March 2024