European Social Survey

Cross-national survey conducted across Europe every two years since 2001. Measuring the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of populations in 30+ nations, it charts stability and change, introduces soundly-based indicators of national progress, and improves the visibility of data on social change among academics, policy makers and the public.

RESIST

EU-funded consortium addressing ‘anti-gender’ politics that imperil equality, gender and sexual diversity, and legitimacy of critical knowledge in contemporary Europe. Collaborating with grassroots collectives and organisations in 8 countries, including 40 queer feminist groups, the project will explore feminist and queer practices of resistance.

VARiE

Interdisciplinary research group generating evidence to inform and improve decision-making in public policy and professional practice in Education. The group creates knowledge and develops rigorous, interdisciplinary and participatory projects that place the voice, agency and rights of children and young people at the core.

Fashion's Responsible Supply Chain Hub (FReSCH)

H2020, project led by UCD CeBas, investigating economic, environmental and social sustainability in the transition to a low-carbon circular fashion industry. FReSCH aims to provide insight into the economic and environmental demands placed on suppliers and how these impact working conditions and human rights practices.

GENCOERCTRL

ERC funded, UCD-led project examining coercive control as a lens to understand women’s experiences of conflict. By developing new methodological approaches to understanding this gendered phenomenon, and speaking with women across Colombia, Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka, the project will push the boundaries of understanding of women’s experiences of armed conflict.

PERITIA

EU-funded, UCD-led project investigating public trust in expertise. The multi-disciplinary team seeks to help citizens and policymakers understand trust in science and identify trustworthy expertise. Using climate change and climate science as a test case, the project aims to enhance trust in a better democratic governance for the future of Europe.

Animals and Society in Bronze Age Europe

ERC-funded, UCD-led project exploring the role of animals in the Bronze Age and reevaluating archaeological understanding of this period that has been profoundly impacted by Capitalist ideology. By investigating how the cultural significance of animals affected how they were farmed and consumed, this project will bring new insights on alternate modalities of power and agency to the current debate on sustainability.

BEYOND OPPOSITION

ERC, UCD-led project examining the experiences of people who are concerned about or opposed to legislative, political or social changes in relation to sexualities and sex/gender in Ireland, Canada, and the UK. This research will inform understanding of how society has transformed and how those who are concerned or opposed to such changes experience this.

EQUALSTRENGTH

Horizon Europe, UCD-led consortium investigating structural forms of discrimination and hate crimes against ethnic, racial and religious minorities. The project will analyse the institutional factors that contribute to structural discrimination, and document the perspectives of minority groups who directly confront discrimination, in order to inform policy development and structural reform.

The Fall of 1200BC

ERC-funded, UCD-led project exploring changes in migration and conflict at the end of the Bronze Age to enhance understanding of the collapse of Europe’s first urban civilisation in the Aegean and the Balkans. The project uses new primary research to test how the interplay between local developments, cultural transmissions and movement of people led to the collapse of these early societies.

ELECT: Moral Agency in Election Campaigns

ERC-funded, UCD-led project investigating the motivations of candidates, campaign professionals, journalists and citizens in campaigns. ELECT will improve understanding of the opportunities and risks posed to democracy by changes in the campaign environment and identify ways of moving forward.

Cultural Landscapes and Social Spaces (CLaSS)

Collaborators are using ‘the House’ as a focal point to consider wider research themes, including human-nature interactions, material/architectural sustainability, human health and well-being, causes and the mechanisms that drive change. These structures represent complex relationships and are unique focal points to consider sustainable societies.

UCD Centre for Sustainable Development Studies (CSDS)

CSDS fosters Education, Research and Policy Outreach on Sustainable Development. This inter disciplinary group of academics, researchers and students focus on contemporary sustainable development issues.

Transport Research Hub @UCD

Bringing UCD researchers across disciplines together under one research umbrella to address key challenges in transport from a social, technological, environmental, economic and business point of view. Raising awareness of the range, role and dynamism of transport analysis in the context of the climate crisis and its vital role in the SDGs, and contributing to development of policy. 

UCD's Jean Monnet Centre

UCD’s Dublin European Institute (DEI) is the oldest and largest university centre for research on European politics in the Republic of Ireland. Designated a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence by the European Commission, the Institute asks challenging questions about the future of European integration, while creating a Euro-Irish hub for research on new challenges facing the European political economy.

UCD Childhood and Human Development Research Centre

Collaborations between numerous disciplines are needed to produce ground-breaking research and inform policy on childhood and its consequences for life-course wellbeing. A collaborative interface across the Bio, Psycho and Social Sciences, the Centre is enhancing our understanding of children’s well-being and human development through an integrated interdisciplinary knowledge base. 

Sustainable wellbeing: humans, environment, and liveability (SWHEL)

Interdisciplinary UCD network with a focus on sustainable wellbeing, forging links with academics and stakeholders at local, national and international levels to facilitate collaboration and build capacity and community. It is also a platform to communicate with government and media, so that research can have a high impact on decision makers and the general public.

UCD Behavioural Science and Policy Group

Education in a Warming World

This World Universities Network consortium led by UCD is building a coalition of researchers’ working at the intersection of the climate crisis and education from across the UK, Europe, Australia and Africa. This coalition will facilitate international collaborative grant-funded research projects and stimulate collaborative projects and enable researchers to apply for large-scale international research funds and grants jointly. 

Doing Feminist Legal Work

A new network of Feminist Legal Scholars funded by the Irish Research Council of Ireland under the New Foundations Shared Island scheme, connecting legal scholars across Ireland, Northern Ireland and Britain on emerging issues of gender and law. 

UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy

World-class expertise in a wide-ranging set of disciplines across Social Sciences and Law, Health and Agricultural Sciences and Business.

Improving the livelihoods of marginalised groups in Vietnam

Prof Patrick Walsh played a key role in the development of the UN SDGs

#Housing2030 shows how policy makers can improve affordable housing outcomes

Democracy in the European Union – getting it right

Prof Michelle Norris awarded IRC Impact Award for significant influence outside of academia

UCD research informed Department of Justice and Equality regulations around gambling

Migrant children in education

A decade of violence: monitoring anti-LGBTQ hate crimes in Russia

Prof Lisa Ryan

Expert in energy economics and Fellow of UCD Energy Institute, specialises in clean energy technology adoption, energy markets, and climate change economics and related policy. 

Prof Patrick Walsh

Full Professor of International Development Studies, Director of the UCD Centre for Sustainable Development Studies, on secondment to UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). 

Prof Maria Baghramian

Full Professor at UCD School of Philosophy, world expert in the intersection of truth, trust and science, PI of the PEriTiA consortium.

Dr Alexander Kondakov

Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow at UCD School of Sociology, specialises in law and sexuality studies, specifically on queer sexualities. 

Dr Aidan Regan

Director of UCD's Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in the New Political Economy of Europe, research focus on the comparative political economy of Europe, network organiser at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, and the Council for European Studies.

Prof Joanna Bruck

Full Professor, UCD School of Archaeology, PI of ERC project ‘Animals and Society in Bronze Age Europe', specialising in settlements and landscapes, ritual and ideology, and material culture studies.

Prof Michelle Norris

Director of UCD Geary Institute, expert advisor to the UNECE Housing 2030 project, member of UNECE expert advisory group tasked with planning for rebuilding housing and urban centres in post-war Ukraine.

Dr Barry Molloy

Associate Professor at UCD School of Archaeology, specialist in European and Mediterranean prehistory, PI of "The Fall of 1200 BC" project.

Dr Aisling Swaine

World-leading policy influencer and Professor of Gender Studies at UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, PI of GENCOERCTRL.

Prof Kath Browne 

Professor at UCD School of Geography, specialises in geographies, differences and inclusion with a focus on the impact of legislative changes to sexual and gender equalities in the 21st Century, PI for BEYOND OPPOSITION and lead on Doing Feminist Work.

Prof David Farrell

Chair of the European Consortium for Political Research, specialist in the study of representation, elections, parties, and deliberative mini-publics, instrumental in establishing Ireland' sCitizen’s Assembly.