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• Jan SkopekHead of Department, Associate Professor Office: 3.02
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  Jan is an Associate Professor; Head of the Sociology Department; and College Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. Previously, he held positions as post-doctoral researcher at the State Institute of Family Research at the University of Bamberg, Germany, and as post-doctoral Senior Researcher at the Comparative Life Course and Inequality Research Centre (CLIC) located at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy. Before that, he headed the Research Data Centre of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) located at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Bamberg (Germany).

  His research activities cover research on social stratification and social mobility, inequality of educational opportunity, family research, social demography, quantitative social research methodology, longitudinal and cross-national research, as well as digital sociology and digital social research. His work is published in top-tier peer-review journals in the disciplines of Sociology and Demography including the American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Population and Development Review, or Demography. Moreover, he edited a series of book volumes, most recently the Research Handbook on Digital Sociology which was published in 2023.
• Yekaterina ChzhenAssistant Professor, School Director of Study Abroad Office 2.05
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  Kat is an Assistant Professor and Fellow of the College. She works on poverty and inequality across the life course, focusing on material well-being, education, health and life satisfaction. She specialises in quantitative methods, longitudinal research and cross-country comparative research. She teaches quantitative methods and topics in inequality and social stratification. She joined Trinity in 2019 after six years as a Social Policy Specialist (P-4) at the UNICEF Office of Research in Florence, Italy, where she led comparative studies on child poverty and child well-being.

  Previously, Kat was a post-doctoral fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
• Camilla Devitt Associate Professor, PG Research Student Coordinator Office: 2.07
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  Camilla is an Associate Professor. Her research focuses on the politics of immigration and social policies in Western Europe, with particular interests in labour migration, labour markets and healthcare. Her research also investigates the determinants of immigration, migrant experiences in Western European labour markets and social attitudes. Her work has also appeared in various academic journals including the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Socio-Economic Review, Social Politics, Journal of European Social Policy and Social Policy and Administration.

  She is a co-editor (with E. M. Immergut, K. M. Anderson and T. Popic) of Health Politics in Europe: A Handbook (2021, Oxford University Press). She teaches political sociology, economic sociology and race, ethnicity and identity at TCD. She has been a Principal Investigator in various European projects on migration and welfare states. She received her PhD in political and social sciences from the European University Institute (EUI), Florence.
• Danial FaasProfessor in Sociology and Director of MSc in Comparative Social Change Office: 3.05
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  Daniel is Professor in Sociology; former Head of Department (2012-2016); a Fellow of the College; and a founding Director of the MSc Comparative Social Change (a joint masters with University College Dublin, since 2015), and Director of the PhD Programme in Sociology. His research is in the sociology of migration and consists of three interlinked strands: (1) identities and integration, (2) comparative curriculum analyses, as well as (3) religion and schooling in Ireland and Europe. He has held Visiting Professorships at Monash University (2024), University of South Australia, Adelaide (2024), Beijing Foreign Studies University (2018), University of the Philippines Diliman (2018), Universiade de São Paulo (2017) and UCL Institute of Education.

  Daniel was Fulbright-Schuman Fellow in the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley (2009) and Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy in Athens (2006-2008). He is winner of the Provost’s Teaching Award and Trinity Global Engagement Award. He served as University Board Member (2019-2022), University Council Member (2012-2018).
• Andrew FinlayAssistant Professor Department Undergraduate Coordinator
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  Andrew is an Assistant Professor and an anthropologist with an interest in developing a critical understanding of power, the state, racism and conflict. Topics of PhD dissertations completed by research students include: the Polish community in Dublin; body marking; cultural identity and Irish advertising; NGOs in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Depoliticisation and the Post-Conflict State in Northern Ireland; "Narratives of Change: Military Wives in the Curragh Camp"; "Palestinian refugees in Lebanon: from co-ethnics to a racialized minority"; "Identity categorisation, citizenship and the 'Peace Process" in Cote d'Ivoire'. Among his publications are two books: Nationalism and Multiculturalism (LIT Verlag, 2004) and Governing Ethnic Conflict (Routledge, 2010).

• Anne HolohanAssociate Professor, Exchange Coordinator (Incoming) & School Deputy Exchange Coordinator Office: 3.04
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  Anne is an Associate Professor. Her work explores organizational and institutional change, with a specific focus on interaction, technologies, and identities, especially gender. She has published on interorganizational cooperation (Networks of Democracy, Stanford University Press, 2005), gamification and institutional change (Community, Cooperation and Citizen Science 2013), and was PI of Gaming for Peace, funded by H2020 (2016-2019) which developed a curriculum and digital game to train peacekeeping personnel in communication, gender and cultural awareness.

  Anne was PI on a Department of Foreign Affairs grant to deliver GAP to peacekeeping personnel in 18 countries worldwide. She is co-founder of TiLT, a campus company using online roleplaying games and sociology to address normative change and inclusion in organisations. Her current work focuses on imagination, social organization and climate change.
• David LandyAssistant Professor Director of MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict Office hours: 2.06
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  David is Assistant Professor in Race, Ethnicity and Conflict. David returned to academia after working in the development and NGO sectors in Ireland and Finland. They have a strong focus on social movements, particularly with regards to Israel and race and ethnicity, and their work explores how social movements evolve and deal with new challenges – most recently in an IRC funded project which examined how the abortion rights movement in Ireland employed digital organising tools.

  David has published in a wide variety of sociological journals, including Sociology, Race and Class, International Sociology, and Ethnic and Racial Studies. In addition to their research, David is a director of the MPhil in Race Ethnicity and Conflict at the Department of Sociology, and teaches on Israel/Palestine, Social Movements and Race and Identity.
• Richard Layte Professor of Sociology Exchange Coordinator (Outgoing) Office: 2.08
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  Richard is Professor of Sociology, former Head of Department (2016-19) and a Fellow of the College. Alongside his role as Professor of Sociology, Richard is also Research Associate of the Economic and Social Institute, Dublin. His research centres on social inequality and stratification and particularly the fundamental processes which influence the distribution of health and well-being in societies and how these are shaped by political economy and social stratification.

  His recent research includes a range of papers on the social determents of health over the life course and the manner in which early environment shapes the individual’s development and risk of disease in adulthood. This research utilises longitudinal data from cohort and panel studies and a central aim is to tease out the implications that the results have for ‘life course’ theories of human development and disease. Richard has published widely on all these issues both in Ireland and internationally in both the academic and policy domains.
• Elaine MoriartyAssociate Professor, School PPES Director Office: 3.06
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  Elaine is an Associate Professor. She is currently researching 'Migrant and Employer Strategies post Brexit in an All Ireland economy' funded by the HEA North South fund (2023-2025); 'Deskilling among 'new' EU migrants in Dublin' funded by the Provost PhD Award (2022-2026), 'Agricultural practices and the regulatory environment that governs antimicrobial use in Ireland' funded by the Prendergast Challenge Awards (2023-2027). Her previous research includes 'Graduate Careers and Social Mobility' (2020-2021, TRISS Research Fellowship)'New forms of mobility and the Portability of Social Protections in Europe' supported by the Trinity Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund (2013-2016), 'Careers, Conjunctures and Consequences - the implications of Polish migration to Ireland for contemporary Irish emigration' research project (supported by the IRC, 2012-2013), a follow up to the 'Migrant Careers and Aspirations' project, a three year study of Polish migrants in the Irish labour market (supported by AIB, 2007-2010).

  Elaine is Academic Director of the PPES undergraduate programme. Elaine's teaching and research interests include mobility and migration, race and ethnicity, employment and labour markets, qualitative longitudinal research methods, gender and identity. Her most recent publications include (2020) 'Measuring Mixedness: Constructing Sameness and Difference' in Rocha and Aspinall (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification, Palgrave Macmillan. (2013) New Mobilities in Europe: Polish Migration to Ireland post 2004 Manchester University Press, UK (with Torben Krings, James Wickham, Alicja Bobek and Justyna Salamonska).
• Annatina AerneAssistant Professor
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  Annatina is an Assistant Professor. Her research is situated in the intersection of organizational sociology and social inequality. She is interested in how organizations shape markets and how their strategies affect individuals. Her academic journey has allowed me to explore this question in two different thematic areas: art markets; and labour markets and education

  Although these fields are distinct, the over-arching topic she works on stays the same: she is interested in organizations’ motivation to cooperate and the impact of their cooperation on individuals. Art organizations play a key role in generating a shared understanding of the world but are also exclusive in their pursuit of prestige. Education and the workplace can be a major source of social belonging in today’s world but at the same time limit access to certain positions in society.
• Nicole KapelleAssistant Professor
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  Nicole is an Assistant Professor, specializing in the intersections of social stratification, wealth inequality, gender inequality, and family dynamics. Her research examines how life course events, such as widowhood, parenthood, and marital separation, impact personal wealth and social inequality across Europe. Nicole has published her work in prominent journals, including European Sociological Review, Journal of Marriage and Family, European Journal of Population, and Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

  She is currently engaged in teaching Comparative Sociology, Social Demography, and Social Stratification, aiming to equip students with a critical understanding of societal issues and dynamics. Nicole’s work has garnered recognition for its methodological rigor and relevance to social policy and welfare. Her research continues to contribute valuable insights into the economic and social challenges facing diverse populations.
• Taha YasseriProfessor of Technology and Society
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  Taha Yasseri holds the Workday Chair of Technology and Society at Trinity College Dublin and Technological University Dublin. He was a Professor and the Deputy Head at the School of Sociology and a Geary Fellow at the Geary Institute for Public Policy at University College Dublin, Ireland. Before that, he was a Senior Research Fellow in Computational Social Science at the University of Oxford, a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and a Research Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences at Wolfson College.

  Taha Yasseri has a PhD in Complex Systems Physics from the University of Göttingen, Germany. He has interests in analysis of large-scale transactional data and conducting behavioural experiments to understand human dynamics, machines’ social behaviour, government-society interactions, online political behaviour, mass collaboration and collective intelligence, information and opinion dynamics, hate speech and content moderation, collective behaviour, and online dating.
• Philomena MullenAssistant Professor, Academic Integrity Officer Office: 2.09
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  Phil is an Assistant Professor and the Deputy Director of the MPhil programme in Race, Ethnicity, and Conflict, with a research specialisation in Black Studies and the racialisation of Blackness among mixed-race individuals and African diasporic communities in Ireland. With extensive experience in university-level teaching, research, and NGO settings, Phil’s professional background spans university-level teaching, research, and extensive NGO experience. She teaches both undergraduate and MPhil courses, including a module on Gender and Race, where her focus is on critically examining the colonial foundations of contemporary racial and gender structures through an interdisciplinary lens.

  Her work is grounded in a commitment to innovative research methods, advancing the study of racialised identities and social structures in Ireland. As Deputy Director of the MPhil, she helps guide the academic and administrative development of the MPhil programme, to create a dynamic, supportive and intellectually rigorous environment for students.
• David RalphAssistant Professor, Department EDI / Athena Swan Coordinator Office: 2.03
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  David Ralph is an Assistant Professor. In 2013 he received a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Award at University College Cork, and in 2014 moved to Trinity College Dublin as Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department. His research interests are in the fields of family sociology, migration studies, and gender studies. He has published widely in these areas and teaches a range of courses related to these interests. In 2021 he published a monograph titled Abortion And Ireland: How the 8th Was Overthrown.