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2023 / 2024

Seminar Series 2023/24

Seminars are held 1-2pm. Please register for our mailing list or follow us on Twitter for further information. Videos for this series are available on our YouTube channel (opens in a new window)here

Date Speaker Title
19th Sept 2023
Professor Frances Fahy, Department of Geography, University of Galway
Asst Professor Kathleen Stokes, School of History and Geography, DCU
'Governing urban sustainability with/through app-based challenges.'
26th Sept 2023 Prof. Ana Fritzhand, "Ss. Cyril and Methodius" University in Skopje, Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of Psychology, Skopje, North Macedonia "The role of Psychology in Providing Sustainable Development of the future Generations".
3rd Oct 2023 Dr. Brendan Walsh. ESRI (opens in a new window)“Government Supports and Covid-19 Outcomes: Evidence from the Temporary Assistance Payment Scheme for Nursing Homes”
10th Oct 2023 Professor Bryan Fanning, School of Social Policy, UCD (opens in a new window)"Public Morality and the Culture Wars: Implications for Public Policy"
17th Oct 2023 Professor Larry Murphy, School of Environment, University of Auckland "Housing, Retirement Village Living and Global Asset Managers:  The case of New Zealand retirees and high finance".
24th Oct 2023 Dr. Adam Standing, De Montfort University (opens in a new window)From moral critique to moral politics: Bridging everyday struggles and structural transformations in the urban crises
07th Nov 2023

Professor Dr Elsa Lorthe, Inserm: National Institute of Health and Medical Research, France

Associate Professor Katja Upadyaya, University of Helsinki, Finland

14th Nov 2023 Robert Thornton, MESL Vincentian Research Centre, Dublin (opens in a new window)Minimum Essential Standard of Living (MESL) - Shining a light on what people need to live with dignity.
28th Nov 2023
Professor Ingo Isphording, IZA, Bonn
(opens in a new window)"Overconfidence, Feedback and Job Search Behavior"
30th Jan 2024
Professor Chris Jepsen, School of Economics, UCD
"Labor-market returns to for-profit education".
6th Feb 2024
Dr Niamh Dooley, Department of Psychiatry, Royal College of Surgeons
"Functional Outcomes Among Young People with Trajectories of Persistent Childhood Psychopathology".
13th Feb 2024
Dr Adele Whelan and Anne Devlin, ESRI
"Barriers to social inclusion and levels of urbanisation".
20th Feb 2024
Prof Rob Kitchin, Social Sciences Institute, Maynooth University
"The Irish housing and planning data ecosystem: A sufficient evidence base for policy?"
27th Feb 2024
Prof Ross MacMillan and Dr Carmel Hannan, Department of Sociology, UL
"The impact of the pandemic on psychological well-being among children"
5th Mar 2024
Dr Diogo Geraldes, School of Economics, UCD
"Closing the Gender Gap in Multilateral Negotiations Through Institutional Design"
26th Mar 2024
Michael Vallely ESRI, Anne Nolan ESRI, Emer Smyth, ESRI
“Mental health and wellbeing trajectories from childhood to young adulthood: Evidence from Growing Up in Ireland”
9th Apr 2024
Liam Davis, School of Law, University of Bristol
“Learning from lived experience: non-traditional families’ experiences of birth registration, and its potential future, in England and Wales”
16th Apr 2024
Dr Eliane Badaoui, Department of Economics, Paris Nanterre University and EconomiX (French CNRS research centre)
“Women’s employment and expenditures for children under prevalent gender norms: The case of Iran”
23rd Apr 2024
Michael Mc Carthy Flynn, Head of Policy, Oxfam Ireland
“Wealth Inequality and wealth taxes”

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