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Welcome to the Department of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. Ranked among the Top 150 Sociology departments in the world (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023), we are a leading hub for research on migration, ethnicity and inequalities offering innovative undergraduate and postgraduate programmes among an internationally diverse student and staff community.
News
David Ralph shortlisted for RTÉ Short Story Competition 2024
Congratulations to David Ralph for being nominated for his short story Turncoat, about which David says: "This story is about a man who has acted against his better nature, or simply followed it, and is now paying the consequences for his actions."
We are hiring!
The Department seeks to appoint an Assistant Professor in the area of Quantitative Sociology, to join us on 1 August, 2025. Closing date is noon, December 2nd.
'Racialised from the Start' Symposium on the 2004 Citizenship Referendum
The Centre for Forced Migration Studies and Black Studies hosted a one-day symposium on October 18th marking 20 years since the 2004 citizenship referendum. Scholars from across Ireland came together in Trinity Long Room Hub to explore the racial dimensions of the 2004 citizenship referendum.
Recent Publications
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"A new sociology of humans and machines"We need a radical overhaul of our understanding of human and machine interactions to combat new and urgent social challenges, according to a new international study just published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour. -
"AI-enhanced collective intelligence"- Patterns Open Access JournalThe challenges facing society today are becoming increasingly complex, surpassing what human efforts alone can manage. In this paper Prof Taha Yasseri & Dr Hao Cui explore how humans and AI can effectively collaborate to achieve collective intelligence.
