Women's Studies and Department of Sociology & Criminology are delighted to invite you to a screening of the award-winning film 'OUR BODIES OUR DOCTORS' followed by a panel discussion with the director, Professor Janice Haaken,  Emily Waszak (Migrants & Ethnic-minorities for Reproductive Justice, MERJ) and Dr. Joan McCarthy (Healthcare Ethics, School of Nursing & Midwifery UCC) in honour of International Women's Day 2020.

Thursday March 5th 2020

5 - 7 pm

Geography Lecture Theatre (C_GG_LT), Donovan's Road, UCC.

(Please join us for refreshments afterwards)

Call for Papers.  Submission deadline: March 20th 2020

The ninth international conference on The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilizations again explores the nature of contemporary malaises, diseases, illnesses and syndromes in their relation to cultural pathologies of the social. This time, however we are focusing explicitly on counter developments to these pathologies and their ambivalences.

Keynote speakers: Beverley Skeggs (Lancaster University), Céline Cantat (Central European University), Máté Zombory (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Arpad Szakolczai (University College Cork)

As previously, we welcome contributions from various disciplines attempting to answer these questions

 Congratulations Shane! Final Year Undergraduate 2018-2019, Shane Moriarty, Regional Winner for his essay for the Island of Ireland in the category of Social Science: Sociology and Social Policy! Shane contacted his supervisor, Dr. Amin Sharifi Isaloo, to thank him and all lecturers in Department of Sociiology And Criminology.

Read his story below:

The event runs from the 11-15th of May at picturesque Blackwater Castle, Co.Cork, Ireland. The Economy + Society Summer School is a week-long residential symposium, oriented to doctoral candidates in disciplines ranging from sociology and economics to anthropology, philosophy, aesthetics and business subjects.

Professor Arpad Szakolczai, Department of Sociology and Criminology, UCC, had a rapt audience for his seminar on Tuesday 28th January.

Congratulations Tracey! We are delighted to announce that our colleague, Dr. Tracey Skillington, will lead UCC Research for the Horizon 2020 project JUSTNORTH. This is an exciting 15 partner project focused on developing a new evaluation framework to assess how principles of democratic justice for the Arctic region are best combined with those of sustainable development.

In the context of an ageing society, there is increasing attention on how people navigate and make sense of particular places through the ageing process.

Great event on Monday 6th July 2020, 2-4.30pm.

Dr. Kieran Keohane from our Department is among those speaking about 'Re-Imagining Political Economy'

We were treated to a very interesting seminar from Tom as he joins us here in UCC!