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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


SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL THEORY by PAUL MICHAEL GARRETT (2013)		METHODS OF SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, edited by F. Fahy and HENRIKE RAU (2013)		RELIGION, GENDER AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE, edited by NIAMH REILLY and STACEY SCRIVER (2013)


A GUIDE TO YOUTH MENTORING: PROVIDING EFFECTIVE SOCIAL SUPPORT by P. Doland and B. Brady. (2012)		POLITICS OF PRACTICAL REASONING, edited by RICCA EDMUNDSON and Karlheinz Hülser (2012)		POLITICAL REASON: MORALITY AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE by Allyn Fives (2012)


INTERNET RESEARCH SKILLS by Niall Ó Dochartaigh 3rd ed. (2012)		RISK SCIENCE AND BLOOD by George Taylor and Martin Power (2010)		TEACHING EMPIRES, edited by Mary Clancy and Andrea Peto (2009)

For more books, click here.

VISIT OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERT CAROLINE BETTINGER LÓPEZ

The Global Women’s Studies Centre is hosting a visit to NUI Galway on May 23-24 by international human rights academic and activist Professor Caroline Bettinger López, Director of the Human Rights Clinic at University of Miami, School of Law. Professor Bettinger López will give a public lecture on “Human Rights Advocacy, Media and Domestic Violence” on Thursday, 23 May, at the Huston School of Film and Digital Media, and a seminar on strategies to fight domestic violence and other gender-based violations on Friday, 24 May, at the Moore Institute. For full information, click here.

GLOBAL WOMEN'S STUDIES MA SCHOLARSHIP 2013-14

Global Women's Studies is offering two MA scholarships of €2,000 in 2013-2014. The deadline for receipt of letters of interest is 17 May 2013. For full details, click here.

PUBLIC LECTURE - U.S. PERSPECTIVE ON GENDER, WORK AND THE LIFE COURSE

A public lecture by Prof. Debra Street (U of Buffalo, New York) entitled "(n)Ever (re)Productive: A U.S. Perspective on Gender, Work and the Life Course" is being held on 14 May 2013 at 1 pm at NUI Galway. The lecture is part of a meeting of the International Research Network on the Gender Analysis of Employment, Retirement and Pensions for Older Workers being held at NUIG. For full details, click here.

RECENTLY GRADUATED PHD STUDENTS

Recently graduated PhD students in the School of Political Science & Sociology include Emily Bent, Margaret Brehony, Peter Cush, Edward Hind, Orla McGarry and Lisa O’Reilly. Their research focused on girls' political subjectivity and agency at the UN, identity formation among teenage Muslims in Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo; the voice of children in social work assessments, and Irish migration to Cuba, 1835-1845, among other topics. To see the titles of their projects and their supervisors, click here.

GENDER ARC PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES, 2012-13

The Gender Arc Public Lecture Series 2013 spring session featured Stephanie Seguino (U Vermont, USA), Selma James (writer and activist), Diane Urquhart (Liverpool U, UK), Imogen Tyler (Lancaster U), and Jill Rubrey (U Manchester). For full details, click here.

GENDER ARC RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES, 2012-13

The Gender ARC Research Seminar Series for 2012-2013 featured Prof. Marianna Fotaki (U Manchester), Deirdre Byrnes (NUIG), Marieke Van Den Brink (Radboud U), Emily Logan (Children’s Ombudsman), Kate White (U Ballarat), Phil Dine (NUIG), Anne Byrne (NUIG), Patricia Moran (UL), Ekaterina Yahyaoui (Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUIG), and Lorraine Kelly (Spanish, NUIG). For full details, click here.

RENOWNED THEORIST OF NATIONALISM SPOKE AT NUIG

Benedict Anderson spoke on 'Nationalism and Time' at NUIG on 21 September 2012. Anderson is Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government & Asian Studies, at Cornell University, and is best known for his celebrated book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1983). For more details, click here.

AUTUMN SEMINARS HELD BY SWEPT

Social Work Education Practice and Training (SWEPT) is holding a series of 6 seminars to provide a sociable forum for social workers to share knowledge, to take part in further training, further develop practice skills and access support from colleagues in practice and in teaching & research. The seminars will start on Thursday, 20 September 2012, at 6 pm. Speakers include Prof. Caroline McGregor (NUIG), Martina McGrath (Brothers of Charity), Fergal Landy (NUIG), Ineke Durville (IASW), Karin Grieve (SW & Psychotherapist), and Jonathan Egan (NUIG). For more details, click here.

PUBLIC LECTURE BY JENNIFER GREENE

Professor Jennifer Greene, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, spoke on 'Evaluation for the Public Good' at MY243, Aras Moyola, NUI Galway, on Wednesday, 10 October 2012. For more details, click here.

GENDER ARC SUMMER SEMINAR

A seminar on Gender, Spirituality, Politics and Society was hosted by the Gender, Discourse, Identities Cluster of NUIG-UL Gender ARC and Global Women's Studies, NUIG, on 27 June 2012. For more details, click here.

POSTGRADUATE SUMMER SCHOOL

NUIG-UL Gender ARC held a postgraduate summer school, Gender, Discourses and Identities: Gender, Nation, Text, at NUI Galway from 6 to 8 June 2012. For full details, click here.

SEMINAR ON TALKING PEACE

Talking Peace, a seminar on communication, contact and dialogue aimed at reducing or ending violence in Northern Ireland, was held at NUIG 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, was held at NUI Galway, on 18 May 2012. For full 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. For full details, 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
Aras Moyola
National University of Ireland, Galway
Tel. +353 91 524411
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This page was last updated Tuesday, May 21, 2013