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📣 Alumni Event | Holding the EU Presidency: Ireland’s role in the European Union
🗓️ Tuesday, Oct 20, 2026 at 6 PM
👥 Panelists: John Bell, Brigid Laffan & Andrea Pappin, Moderated by Gavan Reilly
🔗 Info & Registration: ucd.ie/spire/newsandevents/n…
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📢Job Opportunities: Applications are open for 2 permanent Assistant Professor/Lecturer positions in Politics & International Relations.
🔗 Details & Application: my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal…
⏰ Closing Date: 9 November 2026 (12:00 noon Irish time)
🗓️ Start Date: 30 August 2027
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Our colleague, Prof Supriya Garikipati, was invited to speak at the Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi.
Further details ⬇️
linkedin.com/posts/supriyaga…
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Yesterday, Prof Aidan Regan @Aidan_Regan gave a talk for the SPIRe seminar series titled "Winner-Takes-All: Corporate Tax Erosion and Wealth Concentration in the United States."
The SPIRe seminar series continues throughout the term 👇
ucd.ie/spire/newsandevents/s…
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We have an extra helper on site to get us through another busy week! 🐶🐾
🗓️ Wed 23: SPIRe Seminar by Prof Aidan Regan ucd.ie/spire/newsandevents/s…
🗓️ Thu 24:
• Final Master's grades released (2025–26 cohort)
• Internship Workshop for current Master's students (4 pm)
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SPIRe Newsletter 2026 is now live! Read our latest event reports, upcoming event info, and more.
ucd.ie/spire/newsandevents/s…
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Our SPIRe Outreach Initiative recently introduced DEIS school pupils to the study of Politics & International Relations! Interested in bringing this initiative to your school? We’d love to connect with you.
📖 Read the full report & get in touch: ucd.ie/spire/newsandevents/n…
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Why do some new democracies transition peacefully, while others descend into criminal wars?
This book, "Accountability Shock: Why Transitional Justice Prevents Criminal Wars in New Democracies" (Guillermo Trejo, Lucia Tiscornia, Juan Albarracin, CUP 2026), offers an answer.
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Join authors Lucía Tiscornia (UCD) and Juan Albarracín (UIC) for a conversation with Roger Mac Ginty (Durham)
Thursday September 10 at 5pm, Institute for International and Economic Affairs (IIEA)
Register to attend:
iiea.com/events/accountabili…
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Out now! 📄 "When Illness Becomes Debt: Catastrophic Health Expenditures and Financial Distress—Evidence From India's Healthcare System"
Co-authored by our PhD student Neha Parikh and Dr Krishna Vadlamannati.
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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📢 Seminar: Political Economy, Implementation Science and the Environment
Co-hosted by @SETI_Energy, @EconomicsUCD , @UCDEarth, & UCD Centre for Sustainable Development.
🗓️ Tue, 15 Sept | 1:00–2:30 pm
📍 D201, Newman Building
Everyone welcome!
ucd.ie/earth/events/2026/15s…
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UCD Politics and International Relations retweeted
Always fun to be on podcasts w/ @CooleyOnEurasia - this time we're discussing global authoritarian influence on @DemParadox
democracyparadox.com/2026/09…
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UCD Politics and International Relations retweeted
Two papers at #APSA2026 this week, both on the same big question: how corporate profits become concentrated wealth, & what that does to democracy.
Abstracts below. I'm presenting Sunday 10am in the Firms, Finance & Corporate Governance panel (Marriott, Tufts room) Come along👇
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UCD Politics and International Relations retweeted
Henry Farrell is an outstanding political economist/scientist who did his undergraduate degree @ucddublin @ucdpolitics Proud of him. Excellence is an overused word in academia but Henry Farrell is truly outstanding
Dear followers
This is a truly brilliant article by Henry Farrell. Not because it defends me against the Economist (I have moved on). It’s the way Farrell frames and analyzes the issues surrounding technooptimism and AI. The Acemoglu Wars Are All About AI. programmablemutter.com/p/the…
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📢 WE'RE HIRING! Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow
💼 Part-Time (0.6 FTE) | Fixed-Term through March 2030
📚 Focus: Defence industrial policy, procurement & security governance
⏰ Deadline: 18 August at 12:00
Apply here👇
my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal…
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From imagination to action 💡🌍
Looking back at #DSA2026, Prof Supriya Garikipati & Dr Caitiona Dowd reflect on how plenaries by Kaushik Basu, Naila Kabeer & Mark Graham built a powerful case for reimagining development.
Read their reflections 👇
devstud.org.uk/2026/07/17/fr…
The Centre for Sustainable Development is pleased to announce that Dr Caitriona Dowd and Professor Supriya Garikipati have been appointed guest editors of a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Development Studies, dedicated to the theme of Reimagining Development.
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New RTÉ Brainstorm Article by Dr Stefan Müller: Does an interest in Gaelic games predict how you will vote?
"Income levels, education and gender may not predict an interest in the GAA, but it's different with voting intentions and left-right positions"
rte.ie/brainstorm/2026/0716/…
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The sun is setting on our first full day of #DSA2026 conference at University College Dublin and what a day it has been!
See the full article and more photos: linkedin.com/posts/dsa2026-u…
#DSA2026 #DevelopmentStudies #SustainableDevelopment #UCD #CSD #Dublin
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The Centre for Sustainable Development is pleased to announce that Dr Caitriona Dowd and Professor Supriya Garikipati have been appointed guest editors of a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Development Studies, dedicated to the theme of Reimagining Development.
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They are joined in this role by Professor Jonathan Fisher (University of Birmingham) and Dr Ibrahim Natil (Dublin City University).
The special issue will build directly upon the themes explored throughout DSA2026, examining questions of power, agency and futures ...
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in an uncertain world within the wider field of development studies.
Further details, including the call for papers, will be announced in due course.
#ReimaginingDevelopment
#DSA2026
#JournalOfDevelopmentStudies
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