UCD Politics and International Relations
@ucdpolitics.bsky.social
Official account of the UCD School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe). University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
https://www.ucd.ie/spire/
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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/...
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/...
Nollaig Shona agus Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh!
We are closed from 24 December and reopen on 2 January.
🎄 Applications for January-start postgraduate courses will close in mid-January.
🎄 Applications for two PhD scholarship schemes will close on 30 Jan & 6 Feb.
👉 www.ucd.ie/spire/
We are closed from 24 December and reopen on 2 January.
🎄 Applications for January-start postgraduate courses will close in mid-January.
🎄 Applications for two PhD scholarship schemes will close on 30 Jan & 6 Feb.
👉 www.ucd.ie/spire/
December 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Nollaig Shona agus Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh!
We are closed from 24 December and reopen on 2 January.
🎄 Applications for January-start postgraduate courses will close in mid-January.
🎄 Applications for two PhD scholarship schemes will close on 30 Jan & 6 Feb.
👉 www.ucd.ie/spire/
We are closed from 24 December and reopen on 2 January.
🎄 Applications for January-start postgraduate courses will close in mid-January.
🎄 Applications for two PhD scholarship schemes will close on 30 Jan & 6 Feb.
👉 www.ucd.ie/spire/
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Timing matters… ⏱️
New paper in @climate-policy.bsky.social: adaptation laws don’t work the same across time… politics, finance, and global shocks shape whether they succeed or fail.
doi.org/10.1080/1469...
New paper in @climate-policy.bsky.social: adaptation laws don’t work the same across time… politics, finance, and global shocks shape whether they succeed or fail.
doi.org/10.1080/1469...
Timing matters: analyzing climate policies and adaptive resilience
As the world grapples with the escalating impacts of climate change, a vital question that remains for both scholars and policymakers is not just whether climate policies work, but: when do they ma...
doi.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Timing matters… ⏱️
New paper in @climate-policy.bsky.social: adaptation laws don’t work the same across time… politics, finance, and global shocks shape whether they succeed or fail.
doi.org/10.1080/1469...
New paper in @climate-policy.bsky.social: adaptation laws don’t work the same across time… politics, finance, and global shocks shape whether they succeed or fail.
doi.org/10.1080/1469...
SPIRe colleagues, Melanie Hoewer and Caitriona Dowd, are co-leading this initiative with colleagues at ERC-funded Coercive Injustice project. It aims to strengthen trauma-sensitivity and wellbeing for researchers working on emotionally challenging topics, including conflict, violence and coercion.
Last week, we welcomed Dr Tina Skinner, @uniofbath.bsky.social, who trained us on fostering researcher wellbeing. This is part of a wider effort our @erc.europa.eu project is helping lead at UCD: “Fostering Safety and Trauma Sensitivity for Researchers Undertaking Emotionally Challenging Research.”
December 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
SPIRe colleagues, Melanie Hoewer and Caitriona Dowd, are co-leading this initiative with colleagues at ERC-funded Coercive Injustice project. It aims to strengthen trauma-sensitivity and wellbeing for researchers working on emotionally challenging topics, including conflict, violence and coercion.
Why does it seem like good government is so hard to deliver? A new module for our students tackled these questions by bringing policy makers and shapers into the classroom.
More details about the guests and module: www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...
@ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social
More details about the guests and module: www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...
@ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Why does it seem like good government is so hard to deliver? A new module for our students tackled these questions by bringing policy makers and shapers into the classroom.
More details about the guests and module: www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...
@ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social
More details about the guests and module: www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...
@ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social
UCD SPIRe Receives Fáilte Ireland ‘Conference Ambassador Award’🏆
Congratulations to the committee members: David Farrell (Chair) @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social , Caitriona Dowd, Johan Dornschneider-Elkink, Alexander Dukalskis and the administrator, Joseph Dillon!
Full story👉 shorturl.at/CGbZF
Congratulations to the committee members: David Farrell (Chair) @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social , Caitriona Dowd, Johan Dornschneider-Elkink, Alexander Dukalskis and the administrator, Joseph Dillon!
Full story👉 shorturl.at/CGbZF
UCD SPIRe Receive Fáilte Ireland ‘Conference Ambassador Award’
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December 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
UCD SPIRe Receives Fáilte Ireland ‘Conference Ambassador Award’🏆
Congratulations to the committee members: David Farrell (Chair) @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social , Caitriona Dowd, Johan Dornschneider-Elkink, Alexander Dukalskis and the administrator, Joseph Dillon!
Full story👉 shorturl.at/CGbZF
Congratulations to the committee members: David Farrell (Chair) @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social , Caitriona Dowd, Johan Dornschneider-Elkink, Alexander Dukalskis and the administrator, Joseph Dillon!
Full story👉 shorturl.at/CGbZF
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Join us next week!
Jongyoon Baik (CUHK-SZ), Haohan Chen (HKU), and Yiqiang Wang (HKU) will present their work on Vocal Pitch and Emotions in North Korean TV News.
@alexdukalskis.bsky.social (@ucdpolitics.bsky.social) and Yeilim Cheong (Missouri) will discuss.
Jongyoon Baik (CUHK-SZ), Haohan Chen (HKU), and Yiqiang Wang (HKU) will present their work on Vocal Pitch and Emotions in North Korean TV News.
@alexdukalskis.bsky.social (@ucdpolitics.bsky.social) and Yeilim Cheong (Missouri) will discuss.
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Join us next week!
Jongyoon Baik (CUHK-SZ), Haohan Chen (HKU), and Yiqiang Wang (HKU) will present their work on Vocal Pitch and Emotions in North Korean TV News.
@alexdukalskis.bsky.social (@ucdpolitics.bsky.social) and Yeilim Cheong (Missouri) will discuss.
Jongyoon Baik (CUHK-SZ), Haohan Chen (HKU), and Yiqiang Wang (HKU) will present their work on Vocal Pitch and Emotions in North Korean TV News.
@alexdukalskis.bsky.social (@ucdpolitics.bsky.social) and Yeilim Cheong (Missouri) will discuss.
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Just ordered my copy, and copies also for our library
How Ireland Voted 2024 now available (in full colour printing) from all good bookshops and probably some bad ones too. Full of outstanding analysis and fascinating facts. 13 chapters, 6 Appendices, 33 Tables, 41 Figures, 19 pages of great photos.
December 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Just ordered my copy, and copies also for our library
The 5th chapter of the new book "How Ireland Voted 2024" was contributed by our colleague Stefan Müller. @stefanmueller.bsky.social
Stefan will teach a module "Quantitative Text Analysis" in the Spring term. The module alone can be taken as a Professional Certificate.
www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...
Stefan will teach a module "Quantitative Text Analysis" in the Spring term. The module alone can be taken as a Professional Certificate.
www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...
How Ireland Voted 2024 now available (in full colour printing) from all good bookshops and probably some bad ones too. Full of outstanding analysis and fascinating facts. 13 chapters, 6 Appendices, 33 Tables, 41 Figures, 19 pages of great photos.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The 5th chapter of the new book "How Ireland Voted 2024" was contributed by our colleague Stefan Müller. @stefanmueller.bsky.social
Stefan will teach a module "Quantitative Text Analysis" in the Spring term. The module alone can be taken as a Professional Certificate.
www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...
Stefan will teach a module "Quantitative Text Analysis" in the Spring term. The module alone can be taken as a Professional Certificate.
www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...
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Exactly one year to the day after the general election, “How Ireland Voted 2024: The New Normal?” is now available in bookshops.
➡️ link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
➡️ link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
November 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Exactly one year to the day after the general election, “How Ireland Voted 2024: The New Normal?” is now available in bookshops.
➡️ link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
➡️ link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
📢 SPIRe Newsletter Autumn 2025 issue has just been published!
This issue includes "Lucía Tiscornia receives ERC starting grant", "NUI Awards an Honorary Doctorate to Maurice Manning", "Elizabeth Meehan Prize for Dawn Walsh" and more!
www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...
This issue includes "Lucía Tiscornia receives ERC starting grant", "NUI Awards an Honorary Doctorate to Maurice Manning", "Elizabeth Meehan Prize for Dawn Walsh" and more!
www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...
December 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
📢 SPIRe Newsletter Autumn 2025 issue has just been published!
This issue includes "Lucía Tiscornia receives ERC starting grant", "NUI Awards an Honorary Doctorate to Maurice Manning", "Elizabeth Meehan Prize for Dawn Walsh" and more!
www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...
This issue includes "Lucía Tiscornia receives ERC starting grant", "NUI Awards an Honorary Doctorate to Maurice Manning", "Elizabeth Meehan Prize for Dawn Walsh" and more!
www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...
SPIRe held an award ceremony on December 3 to recognise our top students🥇
A huge congratulations to the winners for such a significant achievement! 🙌 Maith sibh!
Winners and the criteria 👇
www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...
A huge congratulations to the winners for such a significant achievement! 🙌 Maith sibh!
Winners and the criteria 👇
www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
SPIRe held an award ceremony on December 3 to recognise our top students🥇
A huge congratulations to the winners for such a significant achievement! 🙌 Maith sibh!
Winners and the criteria 👇
www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...
A huge congratulations to the winners for such a significant achievement! 🙌 Maith sibh!
Winners and the criteria 👇
www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...
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Check out this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion in which @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social and I talk about our new book
Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics.
newbooksnetwork.com/dictating-th...
Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics.
newbooksnetwork.com/dictating-th...
Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis, "Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics" (Oxford UP, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Check out this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion in which @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social and I talk about our new book
Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics.
newbooksnetwork.com/dictating-th...
Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics.
newbooksnetwork.com/dictating-th...
📢 New research out!
Based on a thesis by former MA International Development student (2022-23) Derek Nolan and his supervisor, Krishna Vadlamannati.
Derek is an Economist with the Dept. of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration & Youth, Gov. of Ireland.
doi.org/10.1111/sjpe...
#Research
Based on a thesis by former MA International Development student (2022-23) Derek Nolan and his supervisor, Krishna Vadlamannati.
Derek is an Economist with the Dept. of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration & Youth, Gov. of Ireland.
doi.org/10.1111/sjpe...
#Research
December 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
📢 New research out!
Based on a thesis by former MA International Development student (2022-23) Derek Nolan and his supervisor, Krishna Vadlamannati.
Derek is an Economist with the Dept. of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration & Youth, Gov. of Ireland.
doi.org/10.1111/sjpe...
#Research
Based on a thesis by former MA International Development student (2022-23) Derek Nolan and his supervisor, Krishna Vadlamannati.
Derek is an Economist with the Dept. of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration & Youth, Gov. of Ireland.
doi.org/10.1111/sjpe...
#Research
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Zelensky to pay first official visit to Ireland tomorrow
Zelensky to pay first official visit to Ireland tomorrow
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will pay his first official visit to Ireland tomorrow along with the first lady Olena Zelenska.
www.rte.ie
December 1, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Zelensky to pay first official visit to Ireland tomorrow
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The chapter with @gailmcelroy.bsky.social analyses issue salience and positions.
Housing and health were among the most salient issues for nearly all parties. Interestingly, immigration barely featured in the manifestos.
Chapter: hdl.handle.net/10197/29172
Book: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Housing and health were among the most salient issues for nearly all parties. Interestingly, immigration barely featured in the manifestos.
Chapter: hdl.handle.net/10197/29172
Book: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
December 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The chapter with @gailmcelroy.bsky.social analyses issue salience and positions.
Housing and health were among the most salient issues for nearly all parties. Interestingly, immigration barely featured in the manifestos.
Chapter: hdl.handle.net/10197/29172
Book: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Housing and health were among the most salient issues for nearly all parties. Interestingly, immigration barely featured in the manifestos.
Chapter: hdl.handle.net/10197/29172
Book: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Happy Friday and Happy End of Term, everyone! 🤩
Last lectures of this trimester @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdpolitics.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Happy Friday and Happy End of Term, everyone! 🤩
This issue includes articles by our colleague, Dr Dawn Walsh @dawnwalsh.bsky.social , and our former PhD student, Dr Emma Murphy @emmamurphy.bsky.social , including:
"Gender quota adoption for commissions in post-conflict societies" by Dawn Walsh and Emma Murphy
journals.sagepub.com/toc/ipsa/46/5
"Gender quota adoption for commissions in post-conflict societies" by Dawn Walsh and Emma Murphy
journals.sagepub.com/toc/ipsa/46/5
IPSR Special Issue: Inclusion and Commissions in Peace Processes
www.ipsa.org/na/news/ipsr...
www.ipsa.org/na/news/ipsr...
November 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
This issue includes articles by our colleague, Dr Dawn Walsh @dawnwalsh.bsky.social , and our former PhD student, Dr Emma Murphy @emmamurphy.bsky.social , including:
"Gender quota adoption for commissions in post-conflict societies" by Dawn Walsh and Emma Murphy
journals.sagepub.com/toc/ipsa/46/5
"Gender quota adoption for commissions in post-conflict societies" by Dawn Walsh and Emma Murphy
journals.sagepub.com/toc/ipsa/46/5
Interested in the MA/MSc International Relations, Politics & Data Science, Human Rights, Gender, International Development, European Politics, Conflict Studies, Political Theory, Political Economy, etc.?
🗓️ Wed, Nov 26 | 3:30 pm.
We hope to see you there!
www.ucd.ie/socscilaw/st...
🗓️ Wed, Nov 26 | 3:30 pm.
We hope to see you there!
www.ucd.ie/socscilaw/st...
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Interested in the MA/MSc International Relations, Politics & Data Science, Human Rights, Gender, International Development, European Politics, Conflict Studies, Political Theory, Political Economy, etc.?
🗓️ Wed, Nov 26 | 3:30 pm.
We hope to see you there!
www.ucd.ie/socscilaw/st...
🗓️ Wed, Nov 26 | 3:30 pm.
We hope to see you there!
www.ucd.ie/socscilaw/st...
Information session on careers in the Political Risk Consulting industry for our current students:
- What the Political Risk Consulting job entails
- What skills are needed
- Where to look for opportunities
Interested? Please contact Dr Krishna Vadlamannati directly at krishna.vadlamannati@ucd.ie.
- What the Political Risk Consulting job entails
- What skills are needed
- Where to look for opportunities
Interested? Please contact Dr Krishna Vadlamannati directly at krishna.vadlamannati@ucd.ie.
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Information session on careers in the Political Risk Consulting industry for our current students:
- What the Political Risk Consulting job entails
- What skills are needed
- Where to look for opportunities
Interested? Please contact Dr Krishna Vadlamannati directly at krishna.vadlamannati@ucd.ie.
- What the Political Risk Consulting job entails
- What skills are needed
- Where to look for opportunities
Interested? Please contact Dr Krishna Vadlamannati directly at krishna.vadlamannati@ucd.ie.
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Opening conversation on maritime security this evening @ucddublin.bsky.social in collaboration with French Embassy. Irish and French interests, Irish and French collaboration bilaterally and as EU partners to defend our shared waters.
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Opening conversation on maritime security this evening @ucddublin.bsky.social in collaboration with French Embassy. Irish and French interests, Irish and French collaboration bilaterally and as EU partners to defend our shared waters.
CPCR Public Lecture: The burden of memory’ – collective identity, narrative and re-writing the past in Northern Ireland by Professor Jim McAuley
⏲️ 4pm, 19th November
📨 RSVP by email to dawn.walsh@ucd.ie by 1pm on the 17th November
www.ucd.ie/cpcr/newsand...
⏲️ 4pm, 19th November
📨 RSVP by email to dawn.walsh@ucd.ie by 1pm on the 17th November
www.ucd.ie/cpcr/newsand...
Public Lecture: The burden of memory’ – collective identity, narrative and re-writing the past in Northern Ireland by Professor Jim McAuley
www.ucd.ie
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
CPCR Public Lecture: The burden of memory’ – collective identity, narrative and re-writing the past in Northern Ireland by Professor Jim McAuley
⏲️ 4pm, 19th November
📨 RSVP by email to dawn.walsh@ucd.ie by 1pm on the 17th November
www.ucd.ie/cpcr/newsand...
⏲️ 4pm, 19th November
📨 RSVP by email to dawn.walsh@ucd.ie by 1pm on the 17th November
www.ucd.ie/cpcr/newsand...
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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...
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
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...
www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...
🎖️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...
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
🎖️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...
www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...
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/...
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
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/...
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/...
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📢 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/...
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
📢 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/...
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/...