Making Space for Play in Irish Schoolyards, 28^th November

‘First, Do Good’: Critical and Creative Responses to Iatrogenic Harm in Mental Health Practices, 8-9 November

Queer Justice: Violence, Victimisation, and Protection in LGBT+ Communities Symposium, 5 November

Open Clasp Theatre Company screening of Mycelial at UCC, 24 October

Home-making and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Migration: The Case of Highly Educated Female Migrants in Shenzhen, China, 16 October 

Volunteering Research and Practice in Ireland, 16 October 

Book Launch and Webinar: Teaching and Learning in Ecosocial Work: Concepts, Methods and Practice, 16 October

Knowledge is Power: Justice Education as a Liberatory Practice, 9 October

Mad Studies and an Ethic of Unruliness, 17 September

Tide players surf the currents: Twenty years of the development of health impact assessment in Australia, 17 September

Book Launch - The making of a left-behind class: educational stratification, meritocracy and widening participation, 12 September

Feminist Walk of Cork, 27 July

Intersectionality: Beyond gender relations in researching men as men, 19 June

Pathways towards Stable Housing for Parents & Children Exiting Residential Services, 18 June

Institutions of Ageing Men: Relations of Power, Care, and Lack of Them , 18 June

Perinatal loss: challenging the norms in the Czech context, 17 June

Designing Kind Educational Practices, 29 May 

Preparing Research Grant Applications: Sharing experiences, 26 April 

The Evolution of Health Impact Assessment in Wales, 23 April

Launch of CareVisions Research Report, 12 December 

On Tuesday 12 December an online event was held to launch the final report of the research project CareVisions: Envisioning a Care-Centred Society Within and Beyond COVID19. The launch opened with a keynote from Professor Joan Tronto (University of Minnesota), followed by a presentation of the main findings from the CareVisions project team.

Collective Social Futures Festival of Social Science, 20-21 November

ISS21 contributed to the two-day Collective Social Futures Festival of Social Science, which included a book launch; an evening of music and performance; and a full-day symposium showcasing social science research across UCC.

Navigating the hostile environment - Afghan evacuees in London, 14 November

Seminar co-hosted by the Department of Sociology & Criminology and the ISS21 Migration and Integration Research Cluster, with visiting speaker Professor Louise Ryan, London Metropolitan University.

Every moment counts - promoting mental wellbeing and inclusion in Irish Schools, 13th November 

Fulbright Scholar Dr Susan Bazyk presented a seminar on her innovative work in school inclusion, focusing on the Every Moment Counts programme. Hosted by the ISS21 Children and Young People Research Cluster.

Informal care and the precariousness of migration experience: An ethnographic study on welfare and migrants' care, help and support within and because of the migration process, 13 November

Co-hosted with the CareVisions project, this seminar presented the findings of research on care and support provided within families with migration experiences. 

Belonging and Narrative, 20th September

On 20 September the Department of Sociology and Criminology and ISS21 hosted a half-day symposium on the theme of belonging and narrative, with keynote presentations from Professor Nira Yuval-Davis (University of East London) and Professor Molly Andrews (University College London).

IMMERSE Conference 15 September

This conference presented the findings from the Irish component of the four-year Horizon 2020 project: IMMERSE (Integration Mapping of Refugee and Migrant Children in Schools and other Experiential Environments in Europe). 

Competing requirements in Hungarian higher education: EU gender mainstreaming or domestic gender regime?, 31 August.

In this seminar visiting academic Prof. Ágnes Kövér-Van Til (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) discussed Hungarian gender policy, and the contradictions with the EU's gender mainstreaming expectations.

Launch of the Irish findings of the PositivMasc study, 30 August.

Findings from the EU GENDER-NET funded study PositivMasc were presented by the research team, followed by a panel discussion with key stakeholders.  

In Transit? Report Launch, 25 May.

The research report In transit? Documenting the lived experiences of welfare, working and caring for one parent families claiming Jobseeker’s Transitional Payment was launched by Senator Alice Mary Higgins on 25th May 2023.

Leaving No One Behind: Health Inequalities on the Island of Ireland, 27 April. 

The ISS21 SHAPE & REACT Research Clusters hosted this online symposium on health inequalities. 

Im/possibilities of settlements and onward movements: An intersectional framework to analyse home-making experiences. 25th April  

In this seminar, Dr. Mastoureh Fathi (Department of Sociology & Criminology, UCC) presented a paper on home making among different migrant groups in various contexts, based on the findings of the EMNaH project. Hosted by the Migration and Integration Research Cluster.

Valuing Care in Feminist and Disability Politics, 24th April

This online seminar with Professor Janice McLaughlin (Newcastle University) was hosted by CareVisions in affiliation with ISS21. 

Duty to Care and Solidarity: Counter-hegemonic civic acts in authoritarian and xenophobic contexts, 21th April

Seminar jointly hosted by ISS21, PRECNIGHTS and the Doctor of Social Science Programme, with visiting speaker Dr. Violetta Zentai (Central European University).

Sharing Canadian & Irish Research and Practice in Housing First & Rapid Rehousing 20 April

Visiting speakers and researchers from UCC provided insights on Housing First and other initiatives to address homelessness in this half-day event. 

Unleashing the Voice within: Challenging current responses of mental health systems to young people in distress, 3 April

This seminar explored different ways of supporting young people experiencing distress, beyond the current services available. Co-hosted by the ISS21 Disability & Mental Health Cluster, CVNI and Mad In Ireland.

Qualitative Research in Cross-cultural & Non-Western Settings, 22 March

In this online seminar Professor Divya Sharma (Western Connecticut State University) discussed ethical and methodological approaches and challenges in conducting qualitative research in cross-cultural and non-Western settings.

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Early Years & Childhood Studies Conference, 10 March

This one-day conference was hosted by the Early Years and Childhood Studies Programme, UCC, in conjunction with the ISS21 Children and Young People Research Cluster

Border Securitisation and the Criminalization of Migration, 24 February

Paper presented by Dr. Gustavo de la Orden Bosch (University of Deusto) as part of UCC Refugee Week, 2023. This event was co-hosted by the ISS21 Migration and Integration Cluster and UNIC.