Tag: University College Dublin

U College Dublin: Postdoc with Generation Peace (Ireland)

Postdocs

Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Generation Peace, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Deadline: 11 July 2025.

Applications are invited for a temporary post of a UCD Post-doctoral Research Fellow Level 1 within UCD School of Psychology, temporary from 1st Sep 2025 to 31st Aug 2026.

GENERATION PEACE does not ask how to protect 1.8 billion children in conflict-affected countries. Instead, it shows how youth – one-third of the world’s population – can build peace. This approach challenges the portrayal of youth as perpetrators (i.e. number of child soldiers) and positions youth as a driver of quality peace, rather than an outcome (e.g. primary school enrolment). Addressing the gaps in the existing research necessitates a holistic, multilevel model tested with diverse methods across contexts and time.

More specifically, this role will advance Work Package 2 (WP2) of GENERATION PEACE, quantitatively examining the cross-national impact of youth peacebuilding on quality peace. WP2 will produce a Youth Peacebuilding Indicator (YPI), compatible with cross-national databases from 1946-2020 for 193 UN member states, operationalised across two domains: (1) capacities for nonviolent conflict transformation and (2) foundations for sustainable peace and development. The YPI will integrate (a) existing data on youth; (b) recode or ‘slice’ existing data to focus on youth; and (c) create additional variables within each domain. Supervised coding and Expert Review will ensure data compatibility and quality. Critical to identifying potential threats to endogeneity, multilevel analyses will be complemented by an instrumental variable test and sensitivity analyses to selection and bias. The relative degree of confidence in the YPI codes will also be modelled.

U College Dublin: Ad Astra Fellow – Lecturer / Assistant Professor in International Law & Global Justice (Ireland)

“JobAd Astra Fellow – Lecturer / Assistant Professor in International Law and Global Justice, University College Dublin, Ireland. Deadline: 21 February 2025.

The UCD Sutherland School of Law wishes to appoint an Ad Astra Fellow in International Law and Global Justice (ILGJ). The Fellow will have demonstrated expertise in public international law and diverse global justice theories. The post holder will contribute to team teaching across public international law subjects, as well as developing theoretically-informed courses in their field of expertise in ILGJ. The post holder’s own specialist subfield should complement and expand the School’s teaching and research in international law. The Fellow’s research agenda should align with advancing sustainability and equity through critical and interdisciplinary inquiry into contemporary global justice challenges. Expertise on international criminal justice, climate justice, border justice, racial justice or any other cognate field is welcome.

The Fellow’s role also involves developing academic community and convening. The Fellow will be supported to expand engagement across schools in UCD, as well as with key external stakeholders in ILGJ. The Fellow’s role will include supporting the development of UCD as a centre of excellence for International Law and Global Justice, with a convening and policy engagement role.

Locating and Dislocating Memory (Ireland)

Locating and Dislocating Memory
COST NETWORK:In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe
University College Dublin
Graduate Training School: 29 Aug-2 Sept, 2016
Conference: 1-3 September, 2016

The ISTME network (2012-2016) aims to investigate the transcultural dynamics of memory in Europe today. Studying how memories of the troubled twentieth century are transmitted and received across Europe, the Action explores the tension between attempts to create a common European memory, or a unitary memory ethics, on the one hand and numerous memory conflicts stemming from Europe’s fragmentation into countless memory communities on the other.

The final ISTME conference will focus on the ways in which memory is located and dislocated through processes of production, transmission and reception. Given the dynamism of memory at local, regional and transnational levels, how, when and where is memory located and defined? What are the ethical challenges in these acts of location and definition? What are the ways in which memory is continuously dislocated, via mediation, remediation, consensus-making and conflict? In an age of mass migration, how are memories produced by communities that are themselves dislocated? Is memory the object that is being located or dislocated, or is it a signifier of the location and dislocation of particular memory communities? Is the tension between location and dislocation central to the practice of memory? What new methodological approaches to memory studies can usefully be brought to bear on these questions?

Keynote speakers:
Professor Astrid Erll, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt
Professor Michael Rothberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professor Francoise Vergès, Collège D’études Mondiales, Paris

Proposals
Please submit your proposals for papers of 20 minutes via email by 15 April 2016. Proposals should be no longer than 300 words and should be accompanied by a brief biography (100 words). Proposals for panels (3 x 20min) are also welcome, as are proposals for papers that draw attention to recently published work which relates directly to the areas of inquiry outlined above.

A limited number of scholarships covering travel and accommodation expenses for conference speakers are made available by COST. Please indicate in your proposal whether your participation in the conference will be dependent on financial support.

Working Groups: This Network consists of three working groups: 1. Politics 2. Media 3. Migration. Please indicate on your proposal with which thematic area (if any) your paper is associated.

University College Dublin job ad: Information & Communication Studies

Professor of Information and Communication Studies
University College Dublin – UCD College of Social Sciences and Law
Closes: 4th January 2016
Job Ref: 007838

University College Dublin is seeking to fill the Professorship of Information and Communication Studies to take a lead within the School in its goal to grow its research, teaching, and international visibility. The successful candidate will be offered a permanent full-time Professorship in the UCD School of Information and Communication Studies. The successful candidate will be expected to take on the responsibilities of head of school for a term at or shortly after the commencement of the appointment.

Candidates with appropriate expertise in any area of the broad field of Information and Communication Studies will be considered. Current areas of research in the School include human-computer interaction, digital curation, cultural heritage informatics, data/information ethics, information architecture, foundations of information studies, information behaviour, data practices, and information literacy.

Note: It is envisaged interviews will take place in week commencing in late February 2016. The appointed Professor will ideally commence in post on 1 September 2016. 

2013 (2010) Professor C Salary Scale: €106,516 to €136,276 per annum. Appointment will be made on scale and in accordance with the Department of Finance guidelines

Prior to application, further information (including application procedure) should be obtained from the UCD Job Vacancies website.

Closing date: 17:00hrs (GMT) on Monday 4th January 2016

Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 17:00hrs on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD do not accept late applications.