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31 Jan 2025
Women of the Borderlands: Official Launch and Public Presentation
The Women of the Borderlands research team would like to extend a warm invitation to the public to attend the project's official launch and presentation on February 19th, 2025, at 12 p.m. in the Pinewood Suite at the Carrickdale Hotel, Dundalk.On February 19th, we invite you to join us as we formally unveil the Women of the Borderlands project to the public. Our team will speak about the project and its main findings and recommendations alongside a panel of speakers from partner organisations the Northern Ireland Rural Women’s Network and Women’s Development and Resource Agency.Please RSVP before February 12th: https://lnkd.in/gAvGfPfDPlease feel free to share the invitation with other interested persons or organisations.Refreshments will be served.
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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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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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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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