Nicola Carr
@nicolacarr.bsky.social
Academic | Criminology, Social Policy and Social Work | Trinity College Dublin📍🇮🇪🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Important rally on Saturday in Portrush. Racism has no place in our communities! Reject racism. 📆 Sat 25 July 📍 Station Square, Portrush ✊ Parade through town: 4pm
Fieldwork in Wales. Keeping my helium balloons tightly under wraps.
From timid rescue to queen of all she surveys…three years later.
Will miss Aine Lawlor on the airwaves. Such a professional, empathetic and incisive interviewer.
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 4w agoAfter more than 40 years with RTÉ, broadcaster Áine Lawlor hosts her final The Week in Politics today.
Religious iconography of the English. The Dragon pub in Nottingham for those that worship.
Listening to a Fianna Fáil politician defending hare coursing on Morning Ireland laughably referring to animal welfare protections. Fully time to ban this barbaric practice; www.thejournal.ie/hare-coursin...
TDs defend voting against hare coursing bill despite personally believing practice should be banned
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are set to vote against a People Before Profit Bill to ban the practice next week.
thejournal.ie
I’ve just written an essay about this which won’t come out for ages (academic publishing) so in short - our planning system currently doesn’t have a mechanism to provide for the complex social meaning of these sites, meaning that impacted groups have to engage in emotional storytelling time & again
Solidarity with all my @uonucu.bsky.social colleagues as we move into the fourth week of a two month strike, and with colleagues at @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social, @sheffielducu.bsky.social, @uculsbu.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social @ucu-londonmet.bsky.social also fighting for their jobs and students.
Jon McGregor@jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 2mo agoSolidarity with all my @uonucu.bsky.social colleagues starting the first day of a 61 day strike today, including the 2700 of us at formal risk of redundancy and especially colleagues in Languages, Music, and Mental Health Nursing whose departments/courses are being closed down altogether.
A powerful film with amazing people. Travelling to Belfast and Cork next - go see if you can 👇👇
Keith Adams@keithadams.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis event was only possible in collaboration with and support from @nicolacarr.bsky.social and Trinity College Dublin. If you missed today's screening, The Strike is available to buy or rent on various streaming services, lnkd.in/dui7pH8h /n
Luqman Saeed, an academic with Ulster University, has shared his personal experience of the pogroms the last two days, describing his situation as a de facto house arrest, under violence caused by an absence of leadership www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
Luqman Saeed | In Belfast
It isn’t an exaggeration to say that we are living under a kind of house arrest, unable to go out, with an oppressive...
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This is terrible for colleagues, for students and for Nottingham. Solidarity.
Chris Tregenza @tregenza.bsky.social · 3mo ago2,700 staff at the University of Nottingham have received 'at risk' letters from the management. The same management which refused to cut their own pay, and the same management which refused to resign after losing £60 million on a disastrous attempt to build a new campus. #JoinAUnion
Judgment now available online. The OfS does not come out of it well at all. Final line: “The Final Decision was vitiated by bias because the OfS approached the decision with a closed mind and had therefore unlawfully predetermined the decision.” www.judiciary.uk/judgments/th...
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo agoSussex University overturns £585,000 fine as high court rejects free speech breach claim
Looking forward to @socworkscot.bsky.social Justice Conference. I'll be speaking on: 🟪 Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission, with fellow Commissioner Lynsey Smith. 🟪 Our comparative #probation & Justice #SocialWork research 🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧🇮🇪; (PI: Prof Nicola Carr). 🔗 socialworkscotland.org/sws-events/j...
A must read: "Contentious Spaces is an urgent, formidable work, attentive to the complicated humanity of the people who inhabit its pages." www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Contentious Spaces by Rosaleen McDonagh: Prose that’s measured, assured and fully human
An accomplished playwright, performer and essayist, McDonagh brings to her debut novel the authority of lived experience
irishtimes.com
When a male journalist decides to cover a femicide on the line of "why should I feel ashamed for what others have done". I've had it too. @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comment/were...
We’re not asking men like Malachi to feel shame over violence against women but we need change
Malachi O’Doherty’s recent article in the Belfast Telegraph, written in response to the murder of Natalie McNally, is an unnecessary intervention.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Still time to register for this event taking place in @tcddublin.bsky.social this evening: www.tcd.ie/ahss/news-an...
Queer Optimism in Hard Times Lecture - Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | Trinity College Dublin
This School of Social Work and Social Policy Annual Lecture will be followed by a panel discussion. The Lecture starts at 18.00 on Thursday 02 April 2026 in the JM Synge Lecture Theatre, Arts Building...
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Join us on 2nd April when @michbar.bsky.social will deliver Social Work &Social Policy Annual Lecture @tcddublin.bsky.social: Queer Optimism in Hard Times. Followed by panel discussion: Sen. Lynn Ruane, Megan Atkinson, Ruadhán Ó Críodáin & Maurice Devlin. Register: www.eventbrite.ie/e/school-of-...
We are really looking forward to Dr Michael Barron delivering TCD School of Social Work & Social Policy annual lecture on Queer Optimism in Hard Times: Memory, Power and the Future of Community-led change. April 2nd at 6pm in Trinity College Dublin. Register www.eventbrite.ie/e/school-of-...
Objections to development at Bessborough: www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Academics object to development on mother and baby site
Human rights academics have written to An Coimisiún Pleanála expressing their objection to the construction of a large-scale residential development on the site of the Bessborough Mother and Baby inst...
rte.ie
The successful candidate to this part-time Research Associate post will be working in a research team of wonderful people/academics: @bethweaver.bsky.social @nicolacarr.bsky.social @jakephillips.bsky.social @fergusmcneill.bsky.social Sarah Doxat-Pratt, Jan Flaherty, and me! [2/2]
JOB: Research Associate, @unistrathclyde.bsky.social Fixed term, part-time (0.5 FTE) between 19th May - 1st October 2026 on a comparative research project funded by Leverhulme, 'Penal Supervision in Comparative Context.' 🔗 👇 #Criminology #SocialWork strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/I/...
Interested in the nexus between algorithmic bias and right-wing extremism? Take a look this paper based on my most recent research project: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
