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Welcome

Professor Chris Curtin, Head of the School

Welcome to the School of Political Science & Sociology. The School is dynamic, innovative and internationally recognised for its research, teaching and service to its students and to wider communities. We offer a wide range of taught undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, which provide students with the knowledge and skills required for varied career paths. We also offer many opportunities for postgraduate research in the social sciences. In addition to the numerous undergraduate students who choose political and sociological studies as a core Arts subject, dozens of students enrol each year in our MA programmes, while as many more pursue PhD studies in the School.

In particular, the School has a well established reputation for research on Children, Youth and Families; Power, Conflict and Ideologies; Gender, Empowerment and Globalisation and Governance and Sustainable Development. It brings together an international, cross-disciplinary group of 40 academic staff members with diverse backgrounds in politics and sociology, as well as anthropology, business, community and international development, economics, social policy, social work, and women's and gender studies.

Please take a look around our site to discover the types of undergraduate and post graduate degrees we offer and what type of research we do.

Announcements of new developments and events will be posted here. If you have any inquiries, please contact us.

New Books by Political Science and Sociology Staff


INTERNET RESEARCH SKILLS by Niall Ó Dochartaigh 3rd ed. (2012)		STUDYING IDENTITY AND ORGANIZATIONS by Kate Kenny et al. (2011)		RISK SCIENCE AND BLOOD by George Taylor and Martin Power (2010)


TEACHING EMPIRES, edited by Mary Clancy and Andrea Peto (2009)		VALUING OLDER PEOPLE, edited by Ricca Edmondson and Hans-Joachim von Kondratowiz (2009)		'TRANSFORMING' CHILDREN'S SERVICES? by Paul Michael Garrett (2009)


THE SAGE HANDBOOK OF POWER, edited by Mark Haugaard and Stewart Clegg (2009)		WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS: SEEKING GENDER JUSTICE IN A GLOBALIZING AGE by Niamh Reilly (Polity, 2009).		A LIVING COUNTRYSIDE? THE POLITICS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL IRELAND, edited by Tony Varley et al. (Ashgate, 2009)

For more books, click here.

SEMINAR ON TALKING PEACE

Talking Peace, a seminar on communication, contact and dialogue aimed at reducing or ending violence in Northern Ireland, is being held at the Moore Institute Seminar Room on 16 May 2012. For more information, click here.

CONFERENCE ON ARMED CONFLICT

Armed Conflict in Comparative Perspectives, a multidisciplinary conference bringing together leading scholars working on aspects of armed conflict from a range of disciplinary perspectives, will be held at the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway, on 18 May 2012. For full details, click here.

NEW ARTICLE BY Ó DOCHARTAIGH

Just published in Political Quarterly, this article discusses the prospects for All-Ireland politics in the current climate of economic crisis. Niall Ó Dochartaigh, 'Republicanism Domesticated? All-Ireland Politics in an Age of Austerity', Political Quarterly, 83 (2) (2012), pp. 25664. For more details, click here.

GLOBAL WOMEN'S STUDIES MA SCHOLARSHIP

GWS is pleased to announce that an MA scholarship of €2,500 will be awarded in 2012-2013. The deadline for receipt of letters of interest is 31 March 2012. For full details, click here.

GENDER AND ACADEMIC WORK SEMINAR

On 24 April 2012, NUIG hosted a half-day seminar on the topic of Gender and Academic Work, with visiting speakers from Ireland and the UK. The event is organized by the Gender, Work and New Economies (GWNE) group within Gender ARC. For further details, contact kate.kenny

nuigalway.ie

GWS LUNCH TIME SEMINAR SERIES FOR SPRING 2012

For full details on the Global Women’s Studies Lunch Time Seminar Series for 2011-2012, click here.

LAUNCH OF REPORT ON OLDER WOMEN WORKERS' ACCESS TO PENSIONS

Global Women's Studies (NUIG), together with the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (NUIG) and Queen’s University Belfast, have produced a CARDI-funded research report on Older Women Workers’ Access to Pensions: Vulnerabilities, Perspectives and Strategies. Former president of ICTU Inez McCormack launched the report in Dublin on 24 February 2012.

To download the report, click here.

16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

The Global Women's Studies Programme is hosted a series of events to mark the 16 Days of Activism to end Violence against Women, linking International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (Nov. 25th) to International Human Rights Day (Dec. 10th). For more information, click here.

MICHAEL D HIGGINS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF IRELAND

The School of Political Science and Sociology is delighted to heartily congratulate its former staff member Michael D Higgins on his recent election to the office of President of Ireland. For more information, click here.

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School of Political Science and Sociology
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National University of Ireland, Galway
Tel. +353 91 524411
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This page was last updated Wednesday, May 09, 2012