Michael Tobin

Knowledge production and learning in housing struggles - SN Social Sciences This article examines the impact of advocacy for non-housing issues and its spillover onto housing movements. Adopting the viewpoint that activism is a social practice that generates knowledge, this s...

Just published #OpenAccess:

"Knowledge production and learning in housing struggles"

I examine how knowledge is produced and learned within housing struggles, particularly how non-housing issues spill over into housing movements.

Full paper here 👉 doi.org/10.1007/s435...

Leinster are URC champions!

Waterford Crystal site set for €130m transformation | WLRFM.com The former Waterford Crystal manufacturing site is to be transformed to form part of the country’s first university enterprise quarter.

The former Waterford Crystal manufacturing site is to be transformed to form part of the country’s first co-located university enterprise quarter in a €130 million initiative.

@setupresident.bsky.social

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Politics and Administrative Justice Politics and Administrative Justice - Postliberalism, Street-Level Bureaucracy and the Reawakening of Democratic Citizenship; This book argues there is urgent need for a radical reassessment of the way...

“Nick O’Brien has made a thought-provoking contribution to the literature on administrative justice, powerfully arguing that democratic participation should be at the core of official responses to citizen grievances.” - Paul Daly, University of Ottawa

Thanks Gerry.

Happy to finish my first marathon yesterday alongside my brother. Love the little Oscar statuettes from my boys 🤗

Families' wealth in 1427 predicts their wealth in 2011.

Latest News & Events | TASC - Think-tank for Action on Social Change

Looking forward to attending this lecture this evening.

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Gaza has been failed by silence and impunity Gaza is on the brink of famine. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a multistakeholder global initiative aimed at enhancing food security and nutrition analysis, reports that the entire...

Gaza has been failed by silence and impunity - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans.

Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.

Researchers from SETU Carlow and Waterford at the Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference 2025 at UCC
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@setu-research.bsky.social #SETU #SETUResearch

Thanks Antoinette and ditto!

Really enjoyed the SAI annual conference. Fantastic papers and discussions. @sociologyireland.bsky.social

'Grace' report: Questions after unprecedented statement Two weeks on from the publication of the near decade-long Farrelly commission investigation into the 'Grace' foster home abuse case, and questions are still being asked about its findings, writes Fiac...

Two weeks on from the publication of the near decade-long Farrelly commission investigation into the 'Grace' foster home abuse case, and questions are still being asked about its findings, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Prison overcrowding 'extremely concerning', says IPRT The prison population across Ireland exceeds 5,000 in a system with bed capacity for over 4,600, leaving the Irish Prison Service operating at 14% over capacity.

The prison population across Ireland exceeds 5,000 in a system with bed capacity for over 4,600, leaving the Irish Prison Service operating at 14% over capacity

Our paper one LLM's ability to answer opinion polls was just published; gatekeeped version here journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... and open preprint here: osf.io/preprints/so...

Watching United is not good for my heart!

Cheers Hazel.

Grand slam for Rory!

Completed the Wexford half marathon earlier today with my brother. Great day out.

Another massive win for Leinster.

SETU successfully completed the @qqireland.bsky.social CINNTE review process. @setupresident.bsky.social

Well done all 👏🏻

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image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

An intellectual history of digital colonialism Abstract. In recent years, the scholarly critique of tech power as a form of digital colonialism has gained prominence. Scholars from various disciplines—i

An intellectual history of digital colonialism by Toussaint Nothias in Journal of Communication academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...

The Imperialism Has no Clothes JD Vance in Greenland

This, from Timothy Snyder, is definitive, on Greenland open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Navigating Digital Welfare: A Multi‐Level Maze? Greater conceptual and empirical engagement with welfare state complexity is needed in studies of digital welfare. This article explores how existing concepts such as welfare systems, subsidiarisatio...

New article: Navigating Digital Welfare: A Multi-Level Maze? In Social Policy & Administration. I argue that greater conceptual and empirical engagement with welfare state complexity is needed in studies of digital welfare. (OPEN ACCESS) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Paper title: "Re-examining 'personalised conditionality': full-time obligations, partial adjustments and power asymmetries in the UK's approach to work-related conditionality"

Delighted to see this article published open access. It draws on qualitative interviews with people subject to work-related conditionality to explore whether conditionality is experienced as a set of standardised time demands doi.org/10.1017/S004...

Does Mainstream Populism Work❓

I answer this question in a new paper officially out at @psrm.bsky.social❗

Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Key take-aways in the thread below 🧵⬇️:

🚨 New article alert!

Máiréad Enright, “Up with the Brave”: Gender, Transgression and Judges’ Use of Catholic Convents in England and Ireland, 1930–1959

open access ✅

doi.org/10.1017/S073...