News Archive

2024 News:

• Sir David Attenborough receives IGU Planet and Humanity Award
• UCD archaeologists win prestigious EAA Book Prize
• Social Sciences and Law Micro-credentials
• Children's School Lives Report
• QS World University Rankings 2024
• Working in the Tech Industry – Using Data Science for Social Insights
• Experts Join Forces to Address the Great Challenges Facing Democracy
• UCD appoints new College Principal for the College of Social Sciences and Law
• 2023 UCD Research Impact Case Study Competition winners announced

2023 News: 

• Five projects under the IRC New Foundations Scheme awarded to College researchers
• Final engagement of College Principal at College Council
• UCD Researchers awarded over €4m in ERC grants
• Professor Colin Scott, Principal of UCD College of Social Sciences and Law, appointed as Registrar and Deputy President of UCD
• Dr Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila Receives CEU's 2023 European Award for Excellence in Teaching
• Dr Shane Bergin receives Leonardo Da Vinci Award
• Advancing and Transforming Society Through Digital Technologies Research Showcase
• QS World University Rankings 2023
• 2023 NovaUCD Consultancy of the Year Award
• Inspiring Research Leaders in College of Social Sciences and Law
• Professor Aisling Swaine awarded €2M in European Research Council Funding for Gender Studies Project
• Irish Project to Create 'Edible Urban Green Infrastructure' Launches in Mozambique
• Irish Research Impact Competition 2023

2022 News:

• UCD College of Social Sciences & Law Teaching & Learning Awards
• UCD College of Social Sciences & Law Conferrings
• International Women's Day Event
• QS World University Rankings
• COVID 19 Research Showcase
• Irish Research Council Awards

2021 News:

• Celebrating International Women's Day 2021
• QS World University Rankings 2021: 5 subjects in top 100 for UCD College of Social Sciences & Law
• UCD College of Social Sciences & Law Conferring Ceremonies December 2021
• College projects among record number of Irish Research Council awards to support communities

2020 News:

• Minister Harris joins UCD and Microsoft for the commencement of Ireland's first Digital Policy Programme
• Dr Sarah Morton EU Award for Excellence in Teaching
• A Social Call 2020
• Choose Your Career Pathway
• Teaching and Learning – Rising to the Challenge through COVID 19 crisis
• Ireland’s COVID19 Crisis Response: Perspectives from Social Science Seminar
• UCD Social Sciences Graduate Information Webinar
• Bunker: Building for the End Times, Dr Bradley Garrett from UCD School of Geography on Survivalists, or Preppers
• UCD School of Economics Receives Athena SWAN Bronze Award
• UCD College of Social Sciences and Law Closure
• UCD School of Psychology Team Up With Pieta House to Develop an Under 18s Suicide Intervention Model
• International Women's Day 2020
• UCD College of Social Sciences and Law Features in 6 QS Top-Ranked Categories 
• Sustainability in our Urban Environment
• Open Call for Social Sciences and Law Artist in Residence 2020
• Geography Masters Information Session
• Thinking of Graduate Study? Come meet us at UCD Graduate Study Fair, 19 February
• BSc in Sustainability
• Three Social Sciences Case Studies runners-up in 2020 UCD Impact Competition

2019 News:

• Congratulations to UCD Social Sciences and Law Alumni Awardees 2019
• College Long Service Awards 2019
• Mapping UCD Research: Exhibition 2019
• Farewell to our 2019 Graduates
• Fullbright Awards 2019
• International Women's Day 2019
• Prestigious Brown Democracy Medal awarded to Professor David Farrell
• BT Young Scientist 2019

2018 News:

• Grainne Healy honoured with the 2018 UCD Alumni Award in Social Sciences
• Ulysses medal presented to Professor Elizabeth Loftus
• Teaching & Learning Awards
• The Irish Young Philosopher Awards 2018
• International Women's Day 2018
• Widening Participation in the UCD College of Social Sciences and Law: Open Day for QQI-FET applicants
• Continued strong interest in Social and Behavioural Sciences at the Annual BT Young Science & Technology Exhibition

2017 News:

• Ulysses medals for former US ambassador to UN, Samantha Power and Harvard scholar, Cass Sunstein
• UCD College of Social Sciences and Law Multiple Vacancies
• New BSc Social Sciences degree launched by University College Dublin
• Colin Scott delivers lecture on diversity, private regulation and Brexit negotiations at Utrecht University
• UCD College of Social Sciences and Law Teaching Awards
• Professor Liam Delaney to take up AIB Chair in Behavioural Economics
• UCD Garret FitzGerald School and Lecture 2017
• UCD and Utrecht University Partnership
• UCD-Universiteit Utrecht Collaborative Research Workshop
• New Double Masters in European Governance
• Launch of UCD College of Social Sciences and Law
• Partnership with Harris School of Public Policy
• Does policy matter for Poverty and Prosperity?