Departmental Seminar Series 2025/26.
Dr. Kanwal Mand, Research Fellow at Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, delivers a presentation titled "No ethics needed? Towards an ethics of care for Public, Patient, Involvement and Engagement".
🗓️Thu 26 March | 🕰️ 3-5 PM |📍Room 2.27, 2nd Floor, TSI Building
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Join us on March 05 in Dublin from 3:00pm-5:00pm to launch “Chinese-speaking Immigrants' Experience Navigating Ireland’s 2022 Regularisation of Long-Term Undocumented Migrants Scheme” by Dr. Meishan Zhang, Department of Sociology, Maynooth University:
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Departmental Seminar Series
2025/26.
Dr. Sébastien Antoine, a postdoctoral fellow at Maynooth University, delivers a presentation titled "Tech Workers of the Majority World: Perspectives from India and Brazil".
🗓️Thu 5 March | 🕰️ 3-5 PM | 📍Room 2.27, 2nd Floor, TSI Building
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📅 March 3rd
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From left to right: Professor Pauline Cullen and Professor Seán Ó Riain, Head of the Department of Sociology.
Pictured on the left is Maria Joyce, Coordinator of the National Traveller Women's Forum.
Congratulations to Professor Pauline Cullen, Department of Sociology, on the launch of her new book Pathways to Political Candidacy for Minoritized Women in Ireland: From Exclusion to Inclusion.
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Prof. Rebecca King O'Riain from the Sociology Department joins The Deep Table podcast to explore the meaning and implications behind the ever-present question, "Where are you really from?"
Listen to the full episode here.
Ali Ghareh Daghi, a PhD candidate in Sociology Department, published an opinion piece on Al Jazeera examining the recent tensions between the United States and Iran. You can find the piece here.
Book launch reminder! Register to attend here: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
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Congratulations to Harriet Wilkinson from the Sociology Department on successfully defending her PhD at her viva voce exam: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
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John O'Brennan, Professor in Department of Sociology, speaking earlier on Greenland topic on Ireland AM, an Irish morning television show.
Listen to the interview here.
Dr. Jenny Dagg, Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, delivered a talk at a workshop in Berlin titled "Future Workshop feat. Freelance Dance Ensemble."
The workshop explored the value of dance work, the impact of politics on art, and ways to build care and mutual support.
Join us on Thursday, February 12 in TSI Room 2.10 from 6:00pm-7:30pm to launch Pathways to Political Candidacy for Minoritized Women in Ireland: From Exclusion to Inclusion - a new book by Prof. Pauline Cullen, Department of Sociology, Maynooth University: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
Dr. Brian Conway's new book Sacred Callings attempts to reorient scholarship on religious change away from long-term social processes by developing an event-led perspective to understand the global Catholic priesthood:
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Dr. Barry Cannon, Associate Professor, in the Department of Sociology, appeared on RTÉ'S Morning Ireland, where he provided expert commentary on the political and social situation in Venezuela.
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Congratulations to Sociology
PhD candidate, Róisín Freeney, on publishing a co-written paper in Literatura: "Do you think Mammy's alright?" - An interdisciplinary exploration of themes of Irish motherhood in Anne Enright's The Green Road.
Dr. John Brown, Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, offers analysis of U.S.–Venezuela tensions during an interview with RTÉ Radio 1.
Professor John O'Brennan was featured on RTE Radio 1 on Sunday, 7 December, talking about drones identified over Dublin Bay last week during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's visit.
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In his Newstalk Daily interview, Shamsoddin Shariati, PhD candidate in Sociology at Maynooth University, outlines why Ireland's expert-led COVID-19 evaluation provides a more constructive alternative to the political turmoil seen in the UK's statutory Covid Inquiry.
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Departmental Seminar Series 2025/26.
Dr. Muireann O’Dwyer, who taught at the University of Warwick and University College Dublin, presents “AI and the value of ‘women’s work’”.
🗓️ Thu 11 Dec | 🕰️ 3-5pm | 📍Room 2.27, 2nd Floor, TSI Building
Nice piece in the Irish Times
featuring Niall Sheil, PhD student in Sociology Department, talking about Balbriggan where he lives and is currently carrying out his doctoral research.
Professor Pauline Cullen, from the Department of Sociology, joined a roundtable discussion on Thursday, 20 November, as part of the seminar programme “Critical Race Theory in Europe: Looking Back and Looking Forward,” organised by the ALL Institute: Assisting Living & Learning.
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Dr. Aoife Neary, a lecturer in School of Education at University College Cork (UCC), presented the third seminar of the 2025/26 Research Seminar Series on Thursday, November 20, in Sociology Department.
Seminar title:
Building a Holistic Approach to LGBTQ+ Inclusivity in Primary Schools.
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Dr. Tisha Dejmanee, Senior Lecturer in Digital and Social Media at University of Technology Sydney, delivered the second seminar of the 2025/26 Research Seminar Series on November 13, titled "Curating Asian Australian Identities on Social Media".
Find the abstract here.
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Departmental Seminar Series 2025/26.
Dr. Aoife Neary, lecturer in the School of Education, University College Cork (UCC), presents "Building a Holistic Approach to LGBTQ+ Inclusivity in Primary Schools."
Thu 20 Nov | 3-5pm | Room 2.27, 2nd Floor, TSI Building.
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The National Women's Council (NWC) launched a new report authored by Professor Pauline Cullen @ppcull examining how women's political representation in Ireland has shaped key policies on reproductive rights and gender-based violence.
🔗Read more here
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Dr. Maria Waclawik, a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Sociology Department, delivered the opening seminar of the 2025/26 Research Seminar Series on October 23, titled “Silence as Memory, Silence as Myth: Interpreting Japanese American and Japanese Canadian Wartime Narratives.”
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Roisin Freeney, from Department of Sociology, joined the panel at the Leeds International Festival of Ideas for "Can Mums Have It All?" — a candid conversation on the realities of modern motherhood. Find more here.
