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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


STUDYING IDENTITY AND ORGANIZATIONS by Kate Kenny et al. (2011)		RISK SCIENCE AND BLOOD by George Taylor and Martin Power (2010)		THE SOCIOLOGY OF WAR AND VIOLENCE by Sinisa Malesevic (2010)


TEACHING EMPIRES, edited by Mary Clancy and Andrea Peto (2009)		VALUING OLDER PEOPLE, edited by Ricca Edmondson and Hans-Joachim von Kondratowiz (2009)		CONTEMPORARY FATHERING by Brid Featherstone (2009)


'TRANSFORMING' CHILDREN'S SERVICES? by Paul Michael Garrett (2009)		THE SAGE HANDBOOK OF POWER, edited by Mark Haugaard and Stewart Clegg (2009)		SOCIOLOGIJA ETNICITETA by Sinisa Malesevic (2009)

For more books, 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 March 31, 2012. For full details, click here.

GWS LUNCH TIME SEMINAR SERIES FOR SPRING 2012

The next event in the Global Women’s Studies Lunch Time Seminar Series for Spring 2012 will be on Wednesday, 15 February 2012. Caroline Forde (NUIG) will speak on Researching Sexual Violence: A Theoretical Framework. For more details, click here. Future speakers in the series include Eoin Donoghue (Department of Classics, NUIG), and Emma Brännlund (Global Women’s Studies, NUIG).

GENDER AND ACADEMIC WORK SEMINAR

On 24 April 2012, NUIG will host 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

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.

DUVVURY LAUNCHES UNFPA REPORT ON WORLD POPULATION

Dr. Nata Duvvury spoke at the October 26th launch of UNFPA’s report, State of the World Population, 2011: People and Possibilities in a World of 7 Billion. Jan O’Sullivan, Minister of State, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, launched the report. Dr Jacqueline Mahon, Senior Policy Advisor, Global Health and Health Systems, UNFPA, introduced the report and Dr Duvvury commented on the report, based on her extensive international development expertise. The event was organised by the Irish Family Planning Association and held at the Shelburne Hotel, Dublin.

GLOBAL WOMEN'S STUDIES STUDENTS AWARDED IRCHSS POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS

Caroline Forde and Aura Lounasma, PhD students in the Global Women's Studies programme in the School of Political Science and Sociology, were each awarded an IRCHSS postgraduate scholarship in the 2011 round. These highly competitive and prestigious scholarship have a success rate of less than 15% and are open to PhD students studying at Irish Universities in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

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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, January 25, 2012