The @radhumslab.bsky.social are pleased to announce 'Against Automation: Resisting AI Futures in Teaching and Research,' November 20th, @ucc.ie. With Dan McQuillan, Patrick Brodie, Masoumeh Mansouri, and Jennie Stephens. Tickets at: www.eventbrite.com/e/against-au...
@drjessmannion.bsky.social keynote was both engaging and inspiring on day one of the Irish Humanities Alliance annual conference in SETU. Brilliant start to an excellent conference.
Excellent keynote from @desfitzgerald.bsky.social - ‘What can an Irish medical humanities achieve?’ at the Irish Humanities Alliance annual conference in SETU.
Join us in Waterford in May for another fantastic SAI Conference! All the details, including the really interesting #cfp, are in the link below. #sociology #socialtheory #phdchat
Billy Goodwin@billygoodwin1.bsky.social · 2mo ago📣Call for Papers The Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference 📍South East Technological University (Waterford Campus) 🗓️6th – 7th May 2027 Sociology, Technology, and the Future of ‘the Republic’ sociology.ie/event/2027-a...
📣Call for Papers The Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference 📍South East Technological University (Waterford Campus) 🗓️6th – 7th May 2027 Sociology, Technology, and the Future of ‘the Republic’ lnkd.in/dDM57-ud
Looking forward to reading this.
Lee Gregory (he/him) 🏳️🌈@academiclee.bsky.social · 3mo agoTime, Welfare and Society is now published!! We talk a lot about money in welfare debates — but far less about time. Yet time is the resource people lose first: waiting, repeating, proving, recovering. This book asks: What if welfare began with time instead? www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/tim...
Looking forward to hosting the 14th Annual @neriresearch.bsky.social Labour Market Conference tomorrow at @setu-research.bsky.social - a full day of labour policy debates, research findings, and probably at least one argument about welfare statistics. www.nerinstitute.net/events/2026/...
14th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference
The 14th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference in association with the South East Technological University (SETU) Waterford will provide a forum for the presentation of research papers on labour market...
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Our new paper "Financing ‘sustainable welfare’: a critical review of the options" has now been published in New Political Economy. In it, @nicklangridge.bsky.social and I assess financing options for welfare without growth and discuss wider policy implications. It's open access: tinyurl.com/y6z374x6
Financing ‘sustainable welfare’: a critical review of the options
The literature on ‘sustainable welfare’ argues that meeting everyone's needs within planetary boundaries requires the financing of welfare to become independent from economic growth. However, it re...
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The Sociological Observer Issue 6 Rethinking Inclusion: EDI in a Time of Uncertainty Edited By Pilar Luz Rodrigues and Su-ming Khoo This issue of the Sociological Observer can be downloaded from the SAI website at sociology.ie/publication/... #SAI #Sociology #SociologyIreland
“An Coimisiún Toghcháin – the Electoral Commission - is seeking applicants from academics or post-doctoral researchers to undertake empirical research projects... Sent to research@electoralcommission.ie by 8 April 2026
I'm interviewed in the Irish Times today, pontificating on the virtues of a BA Arts Degree. We need the humanities more than ever. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Is a general arts degree still fit for purpose?
Leaked University of Galway report said there was a ‘sustained decline’ in undergraduate enrolment for degree but what is the value of one?
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Homeless figures have surpassed 17,000 for the first time
Over 17,000 homeless last month in record high
Homeless figures have surpassed 17,000 for the first time.
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Under the lights at the RSC. Waterford v Sligo. Up the Blues!
📚 Read Voluntary Sector Review 16(3), @brisunipress.bsky.social, with articles on volunteering during COVID-19, non-profit worker wellbeing, care ethics & leadership, digital emotional labour, homelessness services and more. Browse the issue: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
Now out in Transfer (@etui.bsky.social): my article on the implementation of the minimum wage directive. In October 2022, the EU adopted this landmark piece of social policy to ensure fair pay and strengthen collective bargaining. What impact has it had so far? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Usages of ‘soft’ EU labour law: the implementation of the Minimum Wage Directive - Sven Schreurs, 2025
Transposition of the much-debated EU Directive on adequate minimum wages, adopted in October 2022, was due by November 2024. This article examines how the Minim...
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🚨 #CfP reminder! Join us in Oxford (13 Jan 2026) for ‘Social Policy in Europe: Diverse Contexts, Shared Challenges’ Exploring European #SocialPolicy? We welcome papers using diverse methods and perspectives on urgent and evolving issues in the field 🌍 #EUSocialPolicy #PolicyStudies #PSA2026
"Poverty is no longer a standalone socio-economic issue. Instead, poverty is compounded by and interlinked with the increasingly dramatic effects of the climate emergency," @UNDP Acting Administrator Haoliang Xu. news.un.org/en/story/2025/…news.un.org/en/story/202...25
Groundbreaking report reveals powerful link between poverty and the climate crisis
Nearly 80 per cent of the world’s poor – 887 million people – live in regions that are exposed to extreme heat, flooding and other climate hazards, highlighting the urgent need for global action to ad...
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The EU is a geopolitical actor. In a new article, just published in the @jeppjournal.bsky.social, I introduce the SI 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮. I argue for a framework of 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬: the EU’s way of wielding power. 👉 Read here: bit.ly/4mvKnh6
Why the EU is a geopolitical power: wartime enlargement, integration, and reform
The European Union is undergoing strategic redefinition through wartime conditions and shifting global orders, seeking to position itself as a geopolitical power. Enlargement and deeper integration...
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📘 64.4 @legalmusings.bsky.social, @klueserthan.bsky.social & M.Haselmayer address how left‑wing parties have prioritised social progress over economic equality 💱 in recent decades. #PoliSky #OA
Social progress at the expense of economic equality? New data on left parties' equality preferences
ALEXANDER HORN, K. JONATHAN KLÜSER, MARTIN HASELMAYER
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