📣 FINAL Politics & Int. Relations Webinar Series!
🗓️ Wed 29 April, 12pm
🗓️ Thurs 30 April, 1pm
Prospective students & offer holders: Join our Programme Directors and current students for our final sessions of the year! 🎓
Register here: www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...
📢 Job Opportunity:
We are hiring a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in European Comparative Politics (Temporary Fixed Term 3 Years)
🗓️ Closing Date: 12pm, 19 May 2026
Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
#AcademicJobs #Politics #UCD
How does political competition drive fuel taxes? ⛽️
Check out this new article by Dr Krishna Vadlamannati: "Price wars: Political competition and fuel taxes in subnational India."
Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#PoliticalEconomy #India
This scholarship is designed to support students in financial need. Priority will be given to applicants facing financial hardship, as well as those demonstrating academic excellence.
Further Details 👉 www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...
🧑🎓 We are delighted to announce that the new MSc Human Rights Scholarship scheme is now open for the September 2026 intake, thanks to a generous donation from an alumnus.
Scholarship Value: A full fee remission (for both EU and non-EU students).
New article on “Interview Analysis with Cognitive Maps” in #Qualitative #Psychology:
The piece shows how cognitive mapping reveals the reasoning behind people’s words - turning interviews into structured stories of belief, inference, and decisions.
doi.org/10.1037/qup0...
🧑🎓👩🎓Masters Webinar for prospecive students and offer holders – 12pm on Wednesday 15 April.
Meet our Programme Directors, students, and alumni to learn about our programmes and career outcomes. Join the live Q&A!
Register here:
www.ucd.ie/socscilaw/st...
Tá mé bródúil asat, Lucas @lucasmprado.bsky.social 👏
Top 100 in the World! 🏆
SPIRe is ranked in the Top 100 globally in the latest QS ranking by subject! Plus, we’re leading Ireland in research impact (citations) for Political Science. 📖✨
#QSWorldRankings
www.topuniversities.com/university-s...
🧑🎓👩🎓Masters Webinar for prospecive students and offer holders – 12pm on Wednesday 15 April.
Meet our Programme Directors, students, and alumni to learn about our programmes and career outcomes. Join the live Q&A!
Register here:
www.ucd.ie/socscilaw/st...
Join us for our first APSG-APSA Democracy & Autocracy roundtable!
With Anya Schiffrin (@columbiasipa.bsky.social), Bardia Rahmani (Harvard), Erin Baggott Carter (USC, @hooverinstitution.bsky.social), @linettelim.bsky.social (@ucdpolitics.bsky.social) and @scottrw630.bsky.social (@ox.ac.uk).
The Observer Effect Podcast:
A Fair Society: Why Aidan Regan is focused on wealth inequality
Organised Crime and Violent Policing: Why Lucia Tiscornia investigates transitional justice
🎧 Listen on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/4ysNczV...
Tremendous kudos to my @ucdpolitics.bsky.social colleague Maksym Skrypnyk - an outstanding early career scholar.
New Analysis: In his latest piece for The Defense Post, Dr Krishna Vadlamannati explores why India quietly prefers a weaker Iran over outright regime change.
"For India, the risk isn’t Iran as it is - it’s what comes next."
Read the full article here: thedefensepost.com/2026/03/18/i...
Top political scientists, including our own Prof. David Farrell @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social have nominated Korea’s “citizen collective” for the Nobel Peace Prize. Their peaceful “Revolution of Light” stopped a martial law crisis in 2024.
#NobelPeacePrize
english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...
Positive contact dominates Jewish–Palestinian interactions in mixed Israeli neighborhoods.
Even in conflict and war, research suggests everyday interactions are often more positive than commonly assumed.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Happy Friday!
SPIRe Masters Graduate Scholarship 2026 is now open for applications! We are also delighted to announce the new MSc Human Rights Scholarship scheme - further details will follow.
For news and updates, check out: www.ucd.ie/spire/
Thanks for having us Mark!
It was wonderful meeting so many prospective students yesterday! 👋
We’ll be hosting more online events for offer holders & prospective students:
🔹15 April: Graduate Taught Webinar
🔹29 & 30 April: Programme Director Talks + Q&A session.
Further details will follow.
15 years after the Arab Spring: why did people protest then, but not now?
Hot, hopeful emotions spark protest. Cool safety concerns keep people at home.
Hot Contention 👉 bit.ly/hotcontention @academic.oup.com @ucdpolitics.bsky.social
www.almendron.com/tribuna/its-...
UCD Postgraduate Open Day 🎓
🗓️12-5 pm, Tuesday 24 February
🏛️O'Reilly Hall
Register here 👇
www.ucd.ie/graduateadmi...
It’s the perfect chance to chat with staff and current students about our wide range of study options.
#UCD #Postgrad #Politics #InternationalRelations
📻 @kevcunningham.bsky.social and I talked about the state of the parties, public opinion, and the nature of Irish by-elections with @mcculld.bsky.social on @rteradio1.bsky.social this morning.
➡️ www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Congratulations to Dr Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social on being a runner-up in the Research Impact Awards! 🏆
His work on the Irish Polling Indicator turns numbers into insight for society and policymakers. Maith thú! 👏
youtu.be/rq9C_i1EWZ0?...
Check out this new paper by @ucdpolitics.bsky.social PhD candidate @linettelim.bsky.social on how and why Chinese authorities portray foreign media as a threat, and why it matters.
Congratulations to our colleague, Dr Alexander Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social on receiving the UCD Dean of Graduate Studies Award for Excellence in Doctoral Supervision! 🏆🎓
www.ucd.ie/graduatestud...
Comhghairdeas leat, a Alex 🙌
Everyday opposition in authoritarian settings shows that people neither fearfully endure nor loyally support the regime.
Now out in Handbook on Opposition Politics, edited by O’Malley, Cavatorta, and Baturo:
doi.org/10.4337/9781...
DM me for a copy of the chapter.
"Will Trump expose Europe's hypocrisy?
Dr Krishna Vadlamannati explores this critical question in today's Irish Examiner.
Read the full article here:
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Terrific seminar @ucdpolitics.bsky.social with Dr Maksym Skrypnyk (UCD), speaking on the topic of "The Functions of Russian Food Weaponisation in Ukraine.”