UCD Politics and International Relations
LightNews LightNews
banner
ucdpolitics.bsky.social
UCD Politics and International Relations
@ucdpolitics.bsky.social
210 followers 32 following 41 posts
Official account of the UCD School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe). University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
https://www.ucd.ie/spire/
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
ucdpolitics.bsky.social
UCD Politics and International Relations @ucdpolitics.bsky.social · 7d
Applications are now open for the UCD Iseult Honohan Doctoral Scholarship 2026.

Closing Date: 30 January 2026

✔️Covers full fees (EU and Non-EU)
✔️Provides a living stipend of €25,000 per year for up to four years
✔️Is open to EU and non-EU applicants

👇
www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...
Reposted by UCD Politics and International Relations
davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social
It was wonderful to have been able to do the honours as 'introducer' for my former lecturer and old friend @ucddublin.bsky.social

www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...
National University of Ireland Awards an Honorary Doctorate to Maurice Manning
www.ucd.ie
November 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
ucdpolitics.bsky.social
🎖️Our former colleague, Dr Maurice Manning, received an Honorary Doctorate by the National University of Ireland on 6 November. SPIRe Professor, David Farrell @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social was invited to introduce him at his conferral.

www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...
National University of Ireland Awards an Honorary Doctorate to Maurice Manning
www.ucd.ie
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
ucdpolitics.bsky.social
Applications are open for two UCD Ad Astra Doctoral Scholarships💫

It covers:
☑️ Tuition fees (up to the non-EU rate)
☑️ A yearly stipend of €25,000
☑️ An annual research budget of €4,000

Deadline: 6 February 2026

@elisaadamico.bsky.social

www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Reposted by UCD Politics and International Relations
elisaadamico.bsky.social
📢 Applications are open for the UCD Ad Astra Doctoral Scholarship in Environmental and Climate-Related Risk!
Fully funded PhD under my supervision at @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdpolitics.bsky.social. Please reach out to me with any questions! 😊

Deadline: Feb 6, 2026

🔗 www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...
Ad Astra Doctoral Scholarships - UCD School of Politics and International Relations
www.ucd.ie
November 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
ucdpolitics.bsky.social
Join us for UCD Open Day this Saturday, 8 November!🤩 Our current students and staff will be there to answer all your questions. We hope to see you there!

Tá súil againn tú a fheiceáil ag Lá Oscailte UCD.

ucdopenday.ie
November 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Reposted by UCD Politics and International Relations
alexdukalskis.bsky.social
If you're in Paris this week join me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social at @ceri-sciencespo.bsky.social on Thursday where we'll talk about our new book Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

Details here:
Dictating the Agenda : The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics
A conference organised to mark the publication of
www.sciencespo.fr
November 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
ucdpolitics.bsky.social
Applications are now open for the UCD Iseult Honohan Doctoral Scholarship 2026.

Closing Date: 30 January 2026

✔️Covers full fees (EU and Non-EU)
✔️Provides a living stipend of €25,000 per year for up to four years
✔️Is open to EU and non-EU applicants

👇
www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...
November 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Reposted by UCD Politics and International Relations
sdgacademy.bsky.social
🌐 Join @unsdsn.org at #SocialSummit2025 to learn about cross-border certification, skills mobility, and lifelong learning initiatives transforming the global labor market.

Register: bit.ly/wssd2_labor_...

#GreenSkills #CircularEconomy #VET #TVET
October 31, 2025 at 12:05 AM
ucdpolitics.bsky.social
📢 LEVEL UP YOUR SKILLS! Applications are open for our January Start Postgraduate Courses.

Short Courses:
🏫On-Campus Professional Certificates (4 Months)
⏲️2 hours of lectures per week

🔹Prof Cert in Quantitative Text Analysis
🔹Prof Cert in Programming for Social Scientists
October 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Reposted by UCD Politics and International Relations
alexdukalskis.bsky.social
Thanks so much for having us - it was a great conversation!
revdem2020.bsky.social Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 19d
🎙️ In our new podcast, @alexdukalskis.bsky.social and
@cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social argue that the project to spread liberalism around the world has caused a snapback, in which authoritarian regimes aim to capture and repurpose the actors, tools, and norms.

🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/aa6cs3vz
October 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reposted by UCD Politics and International Relations
alexdukalskis.bsky.social
If you’re in New York join me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social as we talk w/ @adamtooze.bsky.social about our new book Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

Register here:

harriman.columbia.edu/event/book-l...
Book Launch. "Dictating the Agenda"
Please join the Harriman Institute and the Committee on Global Thought for a book launch of "Dictating the Agenda" by Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis. Moderated by Adam Tooze.
harriman.columbia.edu
October 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Reposted by UCD Politics and International Relations
alexdukalskis.bsky.social
Hey: check out this new article by @linettelim.bsky.social of @ucdpolitics.bsky.social on control of foreign journalists in China.

It’s Linette’s first solo-authored publication and it’s superb. She uses interviews to highlight less visible forms of control and journalist response.
linettelim.bsky.social Linette Lim @linettelim.bsky.social · 22d
My first solo-authored publication is out in The International Journal of Press/Politics! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Based on 50+ interviews with foreign correspondents in China, it explores how authoritarian media control operates and the responses it provokes. (1/3)
October 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Reposted by UCD Politics and International Relations
davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social
A good read by my @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdpolitics.bsky.social colleague @aidanregan.bsky.social

Aidan Regan: Our politics is caution dressed up as competence – it has to end to make any progress

www.businesspost.ie/analysis-opi...
Aidan Regan: Our politics is caution dressed up as competence – it has to end to make any progress
www.businesspost.ie
October 21, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Reposted by UCD Politics and International Relations
edwardburke.bsky.social
This is a really exciting French-Irish dialogue on European maritime security at @ucddublin.bsky.social Please register below if you wish to attend. Many thanks to the French Embassy in Ireland. @bentonra.bsky.social @ucdpolitics.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Reposted by UCD Politics and International Relations
alexdukalskis.bsky.social
Looking forward to giving along w/ @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social the @nupinytt.bsky.social & Norwegian Centre for Geopolitics annual lecture in Oslo Wednesday.

“Dictating the Agenda – How Authoritarians are Transforming Global Governance”

Details & live stream:
Annual Lecture: Dictating the Agenda – How Authoritarians are Transforming Global Governance | NUPI
Based on their new book "Dictating the Agenda", Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis reveal the important authoritarian changes underway across various global governance domains.
www.nupi.no
October 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
ucdpolitics.bsky.social
Great session at the PSAI Workshop on Methods in Political Theory last Friday!
Huge thanks to Professor Jonathan Floyd (University of Bristol) for leading a fascinating discussion on research methods.
Read more: www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...
October 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
ucdpolitics.bsky.social
Co. Here Launch: A new EU-funded project that is reimaging refugee integration

Glenroyal Hotel, Maynooth
Thursday 2 October 2025
5.30 – 7.30pm

Registration and Further Information ⬇️
www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...
October 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Reposted by UCD Politics and International Relations
ucdlibrary.bsky.social
Here's a great opportunity to get training in using @issda.bsky.social #ISSDADataverse, the open source platform that enhances how users access, discover & work with archived #SocialScience data.

🗓️Thurs, 16 October
12-1pm
📍💻 online via Zoom

Register at Eventbrite issda_dataverse_demo.eventbrite.ie
ISSDA Dataverse training session graphic in maroon and with mosaic of circuit board and folder icons.
October 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Reposted by UCD Politics and International Relations
bentonra.bsky.social
Tremendous inaugural event for @ucdpolitics.bsky.social alumni association tonight… looking at the Presidency. Great Q&A after two tremendous and well moderated contributions. Make your connection via LinkedIn
September 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
ucdpolitics.bsky.social
SPIRe's Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social talked about his new book Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics on the RTE Behind the Story podcast this weekend.

Check it out here: www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...
Podcast: Rising authoritarianism, Kneecap and Eurovision
An expert in international relations has told RTÉ's Behind the Story podcast it is "extremely alarming" that Donald Trump has the full force of the US government behind him for another three years.
www.rte.ie
September 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Reposted by UCD Politics and International Relations
bentonra.bsky.social
This is some tremendous research… excited to see it develop here @ucdpolitics.bsky.social Delighted too to welcome @monikadesilva.bsky.social and if you have an EU foreign policy interest, give her a follow!
monikadesilva.bsky.social Monika de Silva, PhD @monikadesilva.bsky.social · Sep 22
I am spending this semester as a visiting researcher at @ucdpolitics.bsky.social hosted by @bentonra.bsky.social .
There is more in the making on gender and international relations. Also, stay tuned for new projects.
And say 'hi' if you are in Ireland.
September 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
ucdpolitics.bsky.social
UCD Centre for Sustainable Development hosted the conference, which was co-organised with the African Development Bank and supported by Irish Aid and Research Ireland.
Read more⬇️
www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...
September 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Reposted by UCD Politics and International Relations
stefanmueller.bsky.social
New paper in Computational Communication Research with James Cross, @derekgreene.bsky.social & Martijn Schoonvelde: “Mapping Digital Campaign Strategies: How Political Candidates Use Social Media to Communicate Constituency Connection and Policy Stance”

PDF (open access): doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
Abstract: Social media have become a crucial tool for candidates seeking election, allowing them to build a public profile by posting curated content to appeal to potential voters. Focusing on the 2020 Irish General Election, this study investigates how candidates used Twitter to signal their campaign efforts and policy positions, and how their communicative priorities varied based on their gender, competitiveness, and political experience. To do so, we first demonstrate that a transformer-based machine-learning approach based on sentence embeddings can successfully identify social media posts that contain policy and electioneering content. Our findings show that experienced candidates are more likely to emphasise policy-related content than less experienced ones. This pattern also holds for electioneering content when we account for previous engagement with such posts. Contrary to our pre-registered expectations, we find no meaningful differences in the emphasis on electioneering or policy content based on candidates' gender or electoral competitiveness. Overall, our results demonstrate how candidates strategically use social media to shape their public personas during election campaigns in Ireland's candidate-centred electoral system, with multi-member constituencies and strict campaign spending limits.
September 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Reposted by UCD Politics and International Relations
stefanmueller.bsky.social
Are you a @ucdpolitics.bsky.social graduate? Join our discussion event on the upcoming presidential election. 

🎙️ Panelists: @kevinrafter.bsky.social, Art O'Leary & Sheila Naughton
🗓️ 30 Sept, 18:30
📍 Museum of Literature Ireland

Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
@ucddublin.bsky.social
Ireland's Presidency: More Than a Figurehead? UCD School of Politics and International Relations SPIRe alumni in conversation with Art O'Leary, Executive of An Coimisiún Toghcháin/The Electoral Commission Kevin Rafter, Full Professor of Political Communication at DCU Moderator: Sheila Naughton, RTÉ RSVP and join us Tuesday, September 30 6:30pm, Museum of Literature Ireland
September 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
ucdpolitics.bsky.social
We hope your first academic week went brilliantly! We have fantastic news to share – SPIRe has been awarded the Athena Swan Ireland Silver Award! 🏆🎖️🥳🙌

Enjoy your weekend!
September 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM