The next ECSR conference is brought to you by @tcdsociology.bsky.social and @esri.ie! Trinity College Dublin, 15-16 June 2026 www.ecsr2026.net #ECSR2026 Abstract submission deadline: 11 January 2026

📢 Trinity College Dublin is hiring an Assistant Professor in Sociology. Full-time, fixed-term role (maternity cover). Early career researchers, including those who’ve just submitted, completed, or are about to complete their PhD are welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Oct 6, 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a...

New study on #poverty and #inequality in Ireland by @esri.ie and @communityfoundirl.bsky.social, by @barratree.bsky.social et al Full report: www.esri.ie/publications... www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

📢NEW Vacancy📢 Assistant Professor in Sociology at @tcddublin.bsky.social Specialising in quantitative sociology ⏰Deadline: 6 October Maternity cover MORE INFO: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a... APPLY HERE: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/

Very insightful take on the role of AI in expanding equity in higher education by Trinity College Dublin's Orla Sheils www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

🥳 NEW book just out! JUST CLIMATE FUTURES by @luciemidd.bsky.social and @prof-carolynsnell.bsky.social with contributions from me and others, by @brisunipress.bsky.social! BLOG www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/08/12/a... 📖 bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/just-climate...

New publication: an #OpenAccess #SystematicReview by @learnineq.bsky.social "A Metareview of Research on Educational Inequality and Socioeconomic Disadvantage" www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15...

🚨#OpenAccess online🚨 My chapter: "Child poverty and pro-elderly bias in social protection spending" 👇 www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o...

🚨PhD in Quantitative Sociology @tcdsociology.bsky.social Join me for a project on “The Economics of Late-Life Divorce” 📌 €25,000/year + fees 📌 Strong quant skills & soc background needed 📌 Deadline: July 21, 2025 👉 www.tcd.ie/sociology/ab... #PhD #Sociology #Demography #QuantMethods #AcademicJobs

🚨#PhDopportunity Alert🚨 Apply or circulate: A fully funded #PhDposition in #Sociology with @nicolekapelle.bsky.social at @tcdsociology.bsky.social to study "The Economics of Late-Life Divorce in High-Income Countries" Deadline: July 21 www.tcd.ie/sociology/ab... @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social

Midsummer reading. This or Elizabeth Strout, Sally Rooney or Richard Powers? A fine outcome of @sustageable.fi @strateginen.bsky.social project with a great team.

What causes intergenerational #poverty and how can we can halt it? @abigailmcknight.bsky.social @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social reviews new evidence and finds that the family stress caused by poverty can impede children’s development and educational attainment on @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

My colleague in @tcdsociology.bsky.social Dr David Landy has published an op-ed in the @irishtimes.com: "Why academic institutions are cutting ties with Israel" www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

🌞What better way to kick off the summer than sitting in the sun with a good book?📔 Even better when that book is the fascinating "Fragments of Victory: The Contemporary Irish Left" from our own Dr David Landy. An exciting start to the summer reads series from @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social

New publication: an #OpenAccess #SystematicReview by @learnineq.bsky.social "A Metareview of Research on Educational Inequality and Socioeconomic Disadvantage" www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15...

39 hours of focus group discussions to determine the essential needs for households with children in Ireland #MESL2025

#MESL2025 covered in the Irish Times www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

The #MESL2025 report out today! Read the report for details of the Minimum Essential Standard of Living in 2025: 📈18.8% change in MESL costs from 2020 to 2025 👩‍👦‍👦Update on minimum needs of children 💶Adequacy of social protection rates and minimum wage www.budgeting.ie

Congratulations to the newest Trinity College Dublin PhD graduates in Sociology @tcdsociology.bsky.social! @surili.bsky.social @olivia-mcevoy.bsky.social and Aron Foley! @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm....

It was a pleasure to contribute to "Social Sustainability in Ageing Welfare States" edited by @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social Kenneth Nelson and @katikuitto.bsky.social. All the chapters will be #openaccess via @elgarpublishing.bsky.social in a couple of weeks! www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/soc...

The number of children living in consistent poverty rose by 45,107 in 2024 compared to the previous year, according to the Children's Rights Alliance

Important piece by @fotoole.bsky.social quoting the going to be hungry statistics from the #HBSC study by @galwayhprc.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

🆕 paper with @surili.bsky.social in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility: "Immigrant optimism in Ireland: Parental expectations of children’s educational attainment" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our latest brief is here! 🎉 Mapping the Education Evidence Base: Unlocking opportunities to Reduce Educational Inequalities, for the @horizoneu.bsky.social LEARN Project. 📑 Read in full here: zenodo.org/records/1530... @katchzhen.bsky.social @neilkaye.bsky.social @charlottecampbell.bsky.social

Decades after Soviet nuclear testing, communities living near ‘atomic lakes’ in Kazakhstan confront the legacy of radiation. Watch this short film by Zhanana Kurmasheva excerpted from @weliveheredoc to explore more buff.ly/ynCXVfC

Very interesting report on carers in UK academia by @mpsmoreau.bsky.social et al, ahead of the #carersweek. theresearchwitch.wordpress.com/2025/06/02/s...

Right on time for #WorldEnvironmentDay🌍: Does having a child make parents care more about the planet? Together with @guzoch.bsky.social, I found: not always—and not in the same way for everyone. 📄 New study in Population and Environment: doi.org/10.1007/s111... #ClimateChange #Parenting #Sociology

As scientists look for alternative homes for their research careers, will Ireland seize the opportunity? Perspective in @irishtimes.com today. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

🎓May Graduate Stories: Ryan Alberto Ó Giobúin (PhD in Quantitative Sociology 2022) shares how studying Sociology in @tcddublin.bsky.social led him to his current position as a Senior researcher in The University of Turku in Finland. Read more➡️https://tinyurl.com/tbebud9b @tcdssp.bsky.social

It's a pretty dismal reflection on our politics that a policy as bad as the two child limit was introduced in the first place and has survived for a decade. Especially once it became clear it was having no impact on family size (which was the only flimsy policy justification).

Magical thinking latest: that you can have an effective child poverty strategy while leaving the big lever marked 'this lever guarantees child poverty' untouched.

Congratulations to @rodolfopezzi.bsky.social on his Dermot McAleese Teaching Award 2024/25 in Sociology for his outstanding contribution to our Trinity Elective "Inequality in the 21st century". @tcdsociology.bsky.social @tcdssp.bsky.social

Professor Kat Chzhen is up this month for our Spotlight Series! 🔦 Kat shares her research on poverty and inequality across the life course, with a focus on childhood and adolescence. She also talks about her experience with fencing, where she competes internationally! www.tcd.ie/ssp/people/s...

Our latest policy brief is here! 🎉 Unseen Currents: How Peer Networks Shape School Choice and Inequality in Dutch Education, compiled by @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social & Doris Hanappi for the @horizoneu.bsky.social LEARN Project. 📑 Read the full brief here: zenodo.org/records/14500599

We’re really looking forward to joining with these wonderful organisations next month for a meeting about our sister projects looking at transforming inequalities through education. Make sure you’re following us so you don’t miss out on the updates! @revers-ed.bsky.social @horizoneu.bsky.social

Excited to attend the annual consortium meeting of #LEARNINEQ in Manchester

📵Should social media be banned for under 16s? Listen to our Professor Richard Layte weigh in on #TonightVMTV. You can catch the full discussion here: t.co/CZf8B2ODSd

Prof Richard Lyate form @tcdsociology.bsky.social talked about social media exposure and adolescent mental health on last night's #TonightVMTV x.com/i/status/192...

You can still register for our Special Issue Launch "Large Families: The Forgotten Poverty Risk and Policy Relevance" 14 May 2025 Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/special-is... And watch our small promo video @katchzhen.bsky.social @ucdspswsj.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @isa-sociology.org

We are launching our special issue on Large Families: The Forgotten Poverty Risk and Policy Relevance next week 14 May 15.30 IST / 16.30 CET / 10.30 EDT. /w @meganacurran.bsky.social @katchzhen.bsky.social #largefam In-person & online registration: www.eventbrite.ie/e/special-is...

The cottagecore, romantic path to starvation and environmental breakdown. This week's column is on the latest delusions about how we might produce our food. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Come to the in-person/online launch of a special issue of IJSW "Large Families: The Forgotten Poverty Risk and Policy Relevance" edited by @drkoeppe.bsky.social and @meganacurran.bsky.social! I'll be presenting my paper on the UK two-child limit and poverty. www.eventbrite.ie/e/special-is...

If you don't want your kids and grandkids to ask you how you allowed an entire people to be forcibly starved to death live streamed in front of your eyes, you have to do something now. Anything. Not just Americans. Everybody everywhere around the world.

A recording of yesterday's Trinity Research in Childhood Centre webinar on the lived experience of foster care by Sinead Tobin and Sinead Whiting is now available on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rndh...

Great opinion piece by Jen Cummins: Ireland is changing. Our education system must change with it jrnl.ie/6689866

It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The fight for the rights and dignities of trans people is a fight against the thin edge of fascism. It's a hill we are willing to fight and die on. If you'd like to support us with a donation dedicated to trans rights, you can do so here. I am donating £1,000. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...