Tomás Roseingrave was a member of the European Community’s Economic and Social Committee for twenty years
and was President of the Committee from 1980-1982.   He played an important part in ensuring the inclusion of the
social sciences in European research policy and funding programmes.  His book collection and papers were
bequeathed by him to the Social Science Research Centre in UCD where they may be consulted by appointment
e-mail: ssrc.dept@ucd.ie
or telephone: (01) 716 8440

Click here for an introduction to the Catalogue

Click here for a list of books and papers in the Catalogue

 

 

The UCD Social Science Research Centre plays a key role in the COST Social Sciences Concerted Actions

COST – European Co-operation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research - is one of the largest frameworks for research co-operation in Europe. Irish Representation on the COST Social Sciences Technical Committee is provided through the SSRC.

The Technical Committee oversees the social sciences domain, makes decisions on new actions, evaluates completed actions and provides quality control and assurance. Ireland is participating in more than ten of the COST social science actions resulting in extensive networking for researchers throughout Ireland. Members of the SSRC are participating in such COST actions as vocational education and training, children’s welfare and reforming social protection systems in Europe.

 

 

The SSRC is also the Irish member of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)

 The Social Science Research Centre is the Irish member of ISSP. ISSP is a continuing programme of cross-national collaboration bringing together existing social science research programmes in 41 member countries. ISSP plans and implements an annual survey on a specific research issue. It brings member organisations together to design and field the research modules in a rigorously controlled manner to ensure strict comparability of the data. Each research organisation funds its own costs and there are no central funds. The ISSP data is merged into a cross-national data set annually and made available to the social science research community.

Fieldwork and archiving have recently been completed on Work Orientations III (2005), and Role of  Government IV (2006).

These modules, together with National Identity II (2003) and Citizenship (2004), have been funded under the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Government of Ireland Projects Grant Scheme.

 

 

Religion in Ireland, North and South
Recently the IRCHSS has awarded funding, under the 2006-07 Research Projects grants, for the 2008 module – Religion III.  

This is being fielded as part of a joint project with ARK (Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive) under the Ireland/UK Bilateral agreement between IRCHSS and the Economic and Social Research council.  The project also formed part of a successful bid with colleagues in Great Britain, Denmark and the Netherlands to the NORFACE Pilot Research programme ‘Re-Emergence of Religion as a Social Force in Europe?’ The John Templeton Foundation has also provided funding for a partial replication of the Faith Matters survey conducted by Robert Putnam and David Campbell (University of Notre Dame) in 2006.  This will be carried out in two phases by the SSRC and partners in Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ARK) in conjunction with the IRCHSS/NORFACE project.

 

ISSP modules fielded in Ireland: 
Environment (1993, 2000),
Social Equality (1989,1999), Religion (1991, 1999),
 Family and Changing Gender Roles (1989, 1994, 2002),
Work Orientations (1989,1997, 2005), National Identity (1995, 2003),
Social Support (1989), Role of Government (1991, 1996, 2006),
Citizenship (2004).

Click here for more information about the ISSP in Ireland

 

 

IRCHSS Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Dr Breda McCabe was awarded a Government of Ireland Post-Doctoral Fellowship for her project

‘The Irish workplace: components of flexibility, performance and partnership’

by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, to be held at the SSRC from October 2006.