On December 10^th our colleague, Dr. Tracey Skillington, participated as a panelist in a lively debate on the intergenerational divide at the British Library in London, in collaboration with the Alan Turing Institute. Chair of the event was Timandra Harkness of BBC4 Radio.

The debate was recorded and will be made available later for public listening.   

Professor Maggie O'Neill and staff at the Department of Sociology & Criminology wish all our students  a Happy Christmas 2020!

Please view this update on teaching in semester 2 from Interim President, Professor John O'Halloran. 

Semester Two Teaching Plan

Congratulations to Dr. Egle Gusciute, Dr. Peter Muhlau and Professor Richard Layte on the publication of the paper 'Discrimination in the rental housing market: a field experiment in Ireland'.

We are delighted to announce our next webinar 'Migration, Race and Ethnicity' on 24 November 2020 1 - 2.30pm

 Register here for the webinar

This investigation was carried out by Maria Delaney of Noteworthy. She interviewed Dr Theresa O'Keefe on her research, carried out with Dr Aline Courtois, on gender and precarity in employment. Their research is discussed in these three readings. 

Congratulations to Dr. Amin Sharifi Shaloo who will present his paper on Power, liminality and development in the Middle East, at the InMenas (The Irish network for Middle Eastern and North Africa Studies) conference this November.

Amin, who is one of the organisers of this conference, will also chair a panel.

Dr. Amin Sharifi Isaloo has been invited by The CARe project (Career Advancement for Refugee Researchers in Europe), hosted by ACA and DAAD, to give a talk on 'Succeeding as a Researcher in Ireland' on Tuesday November 17th, 11am.

Congratulations Amin from all your colleagues!

Following on from the London Met GDIR Centre launch on 22 September 2020, their first seminar event, Thinking and practice on violence against women in the Global South, will take place on 28 October at 2-4pm. 

Prof. Liz Kelly (Director of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit at London Met) will review how the Latin American feminists use the framework of human rights to address violence against women; and  Dr María E. López (Deputy Director of the Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre, London Metropolitan University) will present her research work on the crimes against women at the Mexican border. 

We are delighted to announce that Professor Louise Ryan is Visiting Research Professor with us this academic year. She is the Centre Director of the Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre, and is Senior Professor in the School of Social Professions at London Metropolitan University.