UCD Centre for Sustainable Development hosted the conference, which was co-organised with the African Development Bank and supported by Irish Aid and Research Ireland. Read more⬇️ www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...

New paper in Computational Communication Research with James Cross, @derekgreene.bsky.social & Martijn Schoonvelde: “Mapping Digital Campaign Strategies: How Political Candidates Use Social Media to Communicate Constituency Connection and Policy Stance” PDF (open access): doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...

Are you a @ucdpolitics.bsky.social graduate? Join our discussion event on the upcoming presidential election.  🎙️ Panelists: @kevinrafter.bsky.social, Art O'Leary & Sheila Naughton 🗓️ 30 Sept, 18:30 📍 Museum of Literature Ireland Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @ucddublin.bsky.social

We hope your first academic week went brilliantly! We have fantastic news to share – SPIRe has been awarded the Athena Swan Ireland Silver Award! 🏆🎖️🥳🙌 Enjoy your weekend!

Delighted to see a new IR/politics substack from a recent PhD graduate @ucdpolitics.bsky.social Dr Isaac Bennett. Check out politicsexplained5.substack.com

A good read in yesterday’s Sindo by my @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdpolitics.bsky.social colleague @alexdukalskis.bsky.social www.independent.ie/opinion/alex... Alexander Dukalskis: Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un’s show of dictator muscle in China keeps the world on edge

💙💛 Warmest congratulations to Assistant Professors Mary O’Keeffe, Lucía Tiscornia, Kevin Daly and Graham Benham, who have each been awarded prestigious European Research Council (@erc.europa.eu) Starting Grants worth over €1.5m. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

🎉 Comhghairdeas mór le Dr Lucía Tiscornia as Deontas Tosaigh €1.5m ón ERC a fháil dá tionscadal CRIMLATAM! Déanfaidh an tionscadal seo iniúchadh ar choireacht agus leas i Meiriceá Laidineach, ag léiriú taighde a bhfuil tionchar domhanda aige. 🙌🙌🙌

PhD Student, Jambo Ramadhani, Awarded Biannual College Research Funding 👏🙌 Title: "Public Policy and Local Climate Adaptation: A Case Study of Drought Response Strategies in Monduli District, Northern Tanzania" Read More: www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan... @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social

SPIRe Warmly Welcomes Our New Colleagues: Dr Elisa d’Amico, Dr Nikita Khokhlov (Ad Astra Fellows) and Dr Farsan Ghassim (Assistant Professor)🤗 www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...

👏 Congratulations to Dr Lucía Tiscornia, @ucdpolitics.bsky.social , on being awarded a €1.5m ERC Starting Grant for her project CRIMLATAM, exploring crime and welfare in Latin America. Research with global impact. #ERCStG #UCDResearch www.ucd.ie/socscilaw/ne...

Many congratulations to my fabulous @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdpolitics.bsky.social colleague, @tiscornia21.bsky.social on her new @erc.europa.eu project on CRIMLATAM, on how criminal organisations operate in Argentina, Chile and Costa Rica www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

Pleased to announce the Connected_Politics Lab Autumn Seminars: – @profdansmith.bsky.social & Nam Pham – Eoghan Cunningham @ucdpolitics.bsky.social – Elissa Berwick @mcgill.ca – @jbslapin.bsky.social – @sabrinabarias.bsky.social – @dpzollinger.bsky.social All welcome! www.ucd.ie/connected_po...

✨ Excited to share that the SPIRe Research Seminar Series – Autumn 2025 programme is now live! ✨We are delighted to welcome an excellent line-up of speakers who will be joining us on Wednesdays at UCD SPIRe @ucdpolitics.bsky.social soon.

📰Tá Nuachtlitir SPIRe Samhradh 2025 díreach foilsithe. SPIRe Newsletter Summer 2025 has just been published. www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...

Fantastic news! Our PhD student Linette (@linettelim.bsky.social) has won The 2025 Best PhD Paper Award from the PSA Autocracies and Regime Change. Huge congratulations to Linette and her supervisor, Dr Alex Dukalskis (@alexdukalskis.bsky.social)! 👏🙌🥇

Delighted that my paper was selected for the 2025 Best PhD Paper Award @psaautocracy.bsky.social ! Thanks to the panel @emisimison.bsky.social & @scottrw630.bsky.social, to my supervisor @alexdukalskis.bsky.social for nominating me, and to @ucdpolitics.bsky.social for being a great intellectual home

So proud of @linettelim.bsky.social for earning this award from @psaautocracy.bsky.social Her work on media & authoritarianism is original, creative, rigorous, deeply researched, and informed by her previous professional experience as a foreign correspondent in China.

And it's published (online) - check it out if your library has access (ours doesn't) and let me know what you think! academic.oup.com/book/60642?l...

Dr Alexander Dukalskis' Interview in Die Zeit, a Major German Newspaper: "Then the liberal order would simply collapse." What if the authoritarian era has long since begun? @alexdukalskis.bsky.social www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

📽️ Hear directly from our alumni! Their video testimonials are now available on our website. Watch them here! 👇 www.ucd.ie/spire/study/

“Gender and Discipline Shape Length, Content and Tone of Grant Peer Review Reports” Peer review affects funding, but how do gender and disciplinary differences shape how reviewers write their reports? We analysed 39,280 reviews submitted to the @snsf.ch. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00103 1/12

Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social is now published by OUP in the USA (rest of world soon) If you are interested in why you see so many dictatorships & illiberal leaders influencing world politics then this is the book for you.

📢Two Research Assistant Positions in Corruption Studies: Call for Applications from SPIRe PhD and Master's Students Start Date: As soon as possible Duration: 20 hours per week for no more than 13 weeks Applications close on Friday 27 June www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...

A tremendous memory from our Horizon GLOBUS project… Dublin 2019. Gender, security and global justice.

📊🗂️ New research from UCD Professor Aidan Regan and Brown University’s Professor Mark Blyth argues that as economic growth is increasingly concentrated in cities, a focus on national-level data obscures the regional divides that drive political consequences, such as Brexit. ✍️ @aidanregan.bsky.social

"Measure economic growth in cities and regions as well as nationally" argues a new paper in Socio-Economic Review by Professor Aidan Regan @aidanregan.bsky.social www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

🚨Pub alert! This is xtra fun - frmr ‪@ucdpolitics.bsky.social‬ masters student's thesis & ‪@researchireland.ie‬ (IRC) #TRADEME project - TLDR - Bangladeshi children living close to exporting firms ⬆️ work & ⬇️ school. Open access thanks 2 ‪@ucdresearch.bsky.social‬ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tremendous role play session with secondary school students @ucdpolitics.bsky.social looking at European defence issues - their resolution remarkably similar to current situation.

🕵️‍♂️🏝️ UCD Professor Aidan Regan is exposing the risk of Ireland’s “tax mirage” 🧵 ✍️ @aidanregan.bsky.social www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

📢 Applications for the SPIRe Masters Graduate Scholarship 2025 close in June! Two key deadlines: 1️⃣ Apply for a full-time MA/MSc programme by Friday, 6 June. 2️⃣ Once you receive a firm or conditional offer, apply for the scholarship by Monday, 30 June.

A new article on The Conversation by Dr Heidi Riley, Adjunct Research Fellow, has just been published: ‘Killing is part of their life’: The men raised on violence who are both perpetrators and victims as South Sudan faces return to civil war. theconversation.com/killing-is-p...

Join us for the Annual Emre Işık Memorial Lecture Dr. Elifcan Celebi @ucdpolitics.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie Mon 12 May 4–5.30PM “Authoritarian Resilience and Reflections on Turkey’s Political Upheaval” All welcome! @jobmaynooth.bsky.social bit.ly/EmreIsik #PoliticalScience #Turkey

Dr Elifcan Çelebi will deliver the Annual Emre Işık Memorial Lecture at Maynooth University on Monday May 12 at 4PM. She will reflect on Turkey's political turmoil, exploring authoritarianism amid economic recession, its resilience, and ongoing protests. Register here: shorturl.at/uqjhU

🧑‍🎓✨ Warmest congratulations to UCD Professor David Farrell on his election as a member of the prestigious Academia Europaea. 👏👏 @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social 👏👏

📢SPIRe Graduate Taught Programme Webinars for Offer Holders and Prospective Students Monday 28 April at 2pm Tuesday 29 April at 11am Meet our staff and current students, and ask questions! 👇Sign up here www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...

Nishtha Pandey from global consultancy J.S. HELD spoke to SPIRe undergrads in "POL30820: Political Risk & Foreign Investments" taught by Krishna Vadlamannati about careers, roles, and key skills in political risk consultancy. linkedin.com/in/nishtha-p...

📢SPIRe Graduate Taught Programme Webinars for Offer Holders and Prospective Students Monday 28 April at 2pm Tuesday 29 April at 11am Meet our staff and current students, and ask questions! 👇Sign up here www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...

We are thrilled to welcome Kosuke Imai (@harvard.edu) to the Connected_Politics Lab! 📄 “Causal Representation Learning with Generative Artificial Intelligence: Application to Images and Texts as Treatments” – Tuesday, 1 April (13:00–14:00 GMT) – Join in person or online: www.ucd.ie/connected_po...

Happy Monday! It is a beutiful day out there🌞 A reminder that tomorrow is the final day to register for an event on Transitional Justice organised by the UCD Centre for Peace and Conflict Research (CPCR) . 🗓️Monday 31 March, 10am-5pm www.ucd.ie/cpcr/newsand...

Graduate Taught Webinar for Offer Holders and Prospective Students for MA/MSc. Meet our staff and current students, and ask questions. Monday 7 April at 2pm GMT ▶️Register Here! ucd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📣📣📣 My department @ucdpolitics.bsky.social is hiring for a PERMANENT*** position open with respect to subfield/method. Deadline: noon on April 7. ***yes, you read correctly: I mean PERMANENT. Like better than tenure-track. Details: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

📰 SPIRe Newsletter Spring / Summer 2025 Newsletter has just been published. www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...

Thrilled to say @ucdpolitics.bsky.social is making a permanent hire at Assistant Professor in any field across politics and international relations. Details here: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport... Join us!

Irish students get in there! 😃

We are seeking applications for a Lecturer/Assistant Professor (Permanent) position. 🗓️ Closing date: 7 April 2025 #AcademicJobs #Hiring #UniversityCareers my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

Register now for the Conference & Book Launch! 🗓️ 7-8 April: Ireland, Britain, and Europe: Constitutional Futures After Brexit Conference 📖 7 April: Political Change Across Britain & Ireland Book Launch www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...

📢Applications for the SPIRe Masters Graduate Scholarship 2025 are now open. The Scholarship is open to EU and non-EU master's students who have a conditional or firm offer for one of our full-time, in-person programmes. www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...

Join us for an insightful session on profit shifting in #Ireland 🇮🇪 and the #EuropeanUnion 🇪🇺 💡 Hear from experts, exchange ideas, and contribute to a vital discussion on the future of taxation! 🔗 Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/profit-shi...