Geary Seminar Series 2014/15

Date	Speaker	Title
30th Sept 2014	Professor Brendan Walsh, Professor Emeritus, School of Economics, UCD	Intermarriage in Ireland: Evidence from Irish Census Data
3rd Oct 2014	Professor Jeremy Bray, Dept. of Economics, UNC Greensboro and Adjunct Professor, Geary Institute, UCD	Return on Investment of a Work-Family Intervention: Evidence from the Work, Family, and Health Network
7th Oct 2014	Professor Richard Layte, Department of Sociology, TCD	Trends in Socio-Economic Inequalities in Mortality by Sex in Ireland from the 1980s to the 2000’s
14th Oct 2014	Dr Denis O'Hora, School of Psychology, NUI Galway, Ireland	The action dynamics of choice and decision-making
17th Oct 2014	Ms. Julia Barrett, Research Services Manager, UCD Library	Managing, sharing and re-using data: Your data – How UCD services can help you manage it and existing data - using the Irish Social Science Data Archive and other archives
21st Oct 2014	Professor Tony Fahey, Professor of Social Policy, School of Applied Social Science	Family Size as a Social Leveller for Children in the Second Demographic Transition
28th Oct 2014	Dr Patricia McMullin, EUI Florence	The multiple dimensions of educational (dis)advantage? Examining inequality in educational opportunities and labor market outcomes in the UK from within the ‘eduLIFE' project’
4th Nov 2014	Dr Michelle Norris, UCD School of Applied Social Science	Varieties of Home Ownership: Ireland’s transition from a Socialised to a Marketised Policy Regime
11th Nov 2014	Dr Jan Rigby, Department of Geography and National Centre for Geocomputation, Maynooth University	A geography of health inequalities in Ireland
18th Nov 2014	Professor Michael Hill, Visiting Professor, PSSRU, LSE	Delegated Policy Delivery: Issues about routinisation and accountability
2nd Dec 2014	Dr Gerry Molloy, School of Psychology, NUI Galway	The Oral Contraceptive Pill in Ireland: Psychosocial Determinants of Uptake and Adherence
9th Dec 2014	Dr Carmel Hannan, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick	Lone-Parenthood: The Broader Perspective
20th Jan 2015	Dr George Gloukoviezoff, UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy	Creating Credit, Not Debt
23rd Jan 2015	A Round-Table event organized by the Research Programme on Building State Capacity in Ireland, UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy	The Irish public sector in European perspective
27th Jan 2015	Dr Jane Gray, Department of Sociology, Maynooth University	Rethinking the transformation of parents’ values and aspirations for their children
6th Feb 2015	Dr Arnaud Chevalier, IZA Bonn and Royal Holloway, University of London	Not all cohorts are born equal: Evidence from the educational outcome of the ‘children of the wall
10th Feb 2015	Dr. Sanna Nivakoski, UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy	The exchange motive in intergenerational transfers
17th Feb 2015	Dr. Alicja Bobek, Employment Research Centre, Dept. Of Sociology, TCD	Migrant Health Workers
24th Feb 2015	Dr Kevin Denny, School of Economics, UCD	Special needs children & the labour supply of mothers
25th Feb 2015	Irish Economy Conference 2015	Irish Economy Conference 2015
3rd March 2015	Professor Emer Smyth, ESRI	Age or stage? Influences on the transition to junior cycle education
12th March 2015	Professor Stephen Buka, Brown University	Children and Human Development Research Centre Seminar: Reducing the global burden of mental disorder: lessons from developmental epidemiology
24th March 2015	Professor Brian McCall, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan	Do Public Tuition Subsidies Promote College Enrollment? Evidence from Community College Taxing Districts in Texas
31st March 2015	Dr Anne Cleary, School of Sociology, UCD	Suicidal behaviour: gender patterns and paradoxes
7th April 2015	Dr Sanna Nivakoski, Prof Philip O'Connell and Mr Mark Hargaden, UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy	Public service activities of UCD staff
14th April 2015	Dr Stephan Koeppe, School of Applied Social Science, UCD	Assets, Welfare markets and user behaviour. Evidence from OECD countries
21st April 2015	Dr Olive Sweetman, Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting, Maynooth University	Wage adjustment in Ireland: between and within firm effects
28th April 2015	Dr Greet Vermeylen, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions	Work-life balance throughout the life course: some reflections on outcomes from the European working conditions survey
5th May 2015	Dr Agnès Parent Thirion, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions	Working conditions in the European Union: some reflections and results from the European Working Conditions Survey
12th May 2015	Dr Delma Byrne, Departments of Sociology and Education, Maynooth University	An evaluation of the HEAR and DARE supplementary admission routes to Higher Education
2nd June 2015	Dr Arman Mazhikeyev, School of Economics, UCD	Consequences of Asymmetric Deeper Eurasian Economic Integration
3rd June 2015	Professor Stefan Svallfors (University of Umeå	Power Without Mandate? Policy Professionals in Organized Politics
19th June 2015	Professor Thomas Ahn University of Kentucky	When Incentives Matter Too Much: Explaining Significant Responses to Irrelevant Information

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