We are so excited and happy to hear that Aisling Sheerin, a TRiSS resident, has been awarded the Trinity Postgraduate Teaching Award 2026: www.tcd.ie/education/ne... Congratulations, Aisling! It is so well deserved!!

Brilliant op-ed by TRiSS Director, Raj Chari, on Canadian PM, Mark Carney's visit to Ireland.

Congratulations to Political Science PhD alumnus Dr @lucas-p-dasilva.bsky.social on receiving the 2025–26 PSA Dissertation Prize (McDougall Trust Prize) for outstanding doctoral research on elections, electoral systems, and/or voting representation. 🎊 👏

Lucas Paulo da Silva@lucas-p-dasilva.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm honoured to receive the 2025-2026 #PSA #Dissertation #Prize for the top PhD dissertation related to elections, electoral systems, and voting representation (McDougall Trust Prize)! 🙌 Thank you very much! 😊 (more 👇)

Applications for a TRiSS Travel Bursary are now being accepted. Closing date = 13 March 2026, 5pm. Contact triss@tcd.ie for a link to the form. Best of luck! www.tcd.ie/triss/progra...

Applications for a TRiSS Travel Bursary are now being accepted from PhD candidates from TRiSS member schools. Further information here: www.tcd.ie/triss/progra...

Prof Raj Chari's research has been selected as a global impact case study for Trinity's Civic Engagement Societal Impact initiative.🥳 Read the full impact case study here: tinyurl.com/2w5cuw9s @trisstcd.bsky.social @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @trinityresearch.bsky.social

Join us for La Salle University Prof Charles Gallagher's talk on "How Racism, Xenophobia and Group Threat got Trump back to the White House, Thurs 21 Aug, 1pm, TRiSS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Arts Bld, TCD Bookings required: tinyurl.com/yrs6fsbk @tcdsociology.bsky.social @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social

Congratulations to Professor Raj Chari on his appointment as Director of @trisstcd.bsky.social! 🥳 He will work closely with the Dean of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences to guide the Centre's strategic vision. 👏 Find out more about TRiSS here: www.tcd.ie/triss/

Congratulations to our own Professor Raj Chari! We look forward to seeing him lead @trisstcd.bsky.social into a bright future! ✨

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Congratulations to Professor Raj Chari on his appointment as Director of @trisstcd.bsky.social! 🥳 He will work closely with the Dean of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences to guide the Centre's strategic vision. 👏 Find out more about TRiSS here: www.tcd.ie/triss/

Well done to TRiSS PhD Economics candidate, Bhavya Shrivastava (bshr7.bsky.social) whose story on the "Sandwich Generation" was picked up by RTE! tinyurl.com/4ffpr7s4

How 'sandwich generation' are caught up in cost of living crisis

As Ireland ages and family care stretches across three generations, the squeezed middle are quietly doing it all with little recognition

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Congratulations to PhD student Doireann O'Brien who won the Conniffe Prize at this year's IEA conference! 💫 The Conniffe Prize is awarded to the best paper presented by a young economist at the conference each year. 👏 🔗Read more: tinyurl.com/bdfutsd8 @trisstcd.bsky.social

Here's to another year at TRiSS under the stewardship of Prof Ronan Lyons, and yours truly. All the best to the Class of 2024/25. We miss you already... @ronanlyons.bsky.social @tcdeconomics.bsky.social @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social @tcdsociology.bsky.social @tcdssp.bsky.social

Have a read of TRiSS postdoc, Clare Moriarty's, piece in the Irish Times about swimming. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024... @quiteclare.bsky.social @tcdphilosophy.bsky.social @tcdssp.bsky.social

Clare Moriarty: Planning to join a swimming pool this January? Read this first

Watch your lane etiquette; never take off just before a faster swimmer turns; and don’t panic if someone taps your foot

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Reminder - the closing date for a TRiSS Travel Bursary is tomorrow, Fri 20 Oct, 5pm! Please contact triss@tcd.ie for a form. Applications are only open to PhD candidates of TRiSS member schools.

Congratulations to TRiSS Doctoral Student Amelie Freiberg, who has been named a Civil War Paths fellow with the Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War at the University of York (UK) for this academic year! Amelie is a PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin Political Science and TRiSSTCD!!