The UCD School of Social Justice offers a range of postgraduate programmes at Certificate, Diploma, Masters and PhD levels as well as a range of Outreach programmes and Contiuning Professional Development Programmes. The programmes are flexible, they may be taken full-time or part-time and many classes are offered in the evening. There are progression routes from Certificate to Diploma to masters programmes and there is a very wide range of modules on offer in all programmes.
Equality StudiesEquality Studies is an inter-disciplinary study of significant equalities and inequalities in human life, both as it has been and as it might be. It addresses topics including patterns of inequality, explanations of inequality, principles of equality and equality objectives, egalitarian social, political and economic institutions and strategies for change. Work in Equality Studies is currently concentrated in four main areas: development and global north/south relations, minorities and discrimination, gender, and class structures.The main aims are to develop an interdisciplinary understanding of equality, to promote greater understanding and concern for equality both within Ireland and internationally and to undertake and promote research on equality issues. In pursuit of these aims, Equality Studies at the UCD School of Social Justice is engaged in research into issues of equality and inequality, the provision of postgraduate programmes at Diploma, Masters, and PhD level and an outreach programme which works beyond the limits of the university.
Women's Studies
Women's Studies is one of the most vibrant international fields of study, producing its own body of scholarship, at the same time challenging and altering traditional disciplines and having a profound effect on the wider world. One of feminism’s success stories over the past four decades has been the establishment of Women’s Studies programmes throughout every continent, and this expansion is continuing. As a discipline, Women's Studies addresses issues previously neglected by traditional disciplines, and adapts and refines theories and methods from those disciplines. Women's Studies is not simply the study of women and women's issues. It is the study of women that places women's own experiences at the centre of enquiry and looks at how gender is a fundamental structure in all societies. Gender is the term used to describe the relationship between ideas about masculinity and femininity; gender describes the system of rules by which males and females are encouraged to relate to each other. What other disciplines use as assumptions about women and men, Women's Studies poses as questions.
Funding Links
International Students from the United States can enquire about funding here
Irish Aid Fellowships information is available for applicants from designated countries
Students from Zambia, Zimbabwe or Malawai may enquire for funding from The Beit Trust for 2013
The Mary Kelly Scholarship in Equality Studies will be advertised again shortly for 2012
Applicants from Northern Ireland can also check here
