Kat Chzhen

To suggest that a country as wet and flood-prone as Ireland shouldn't have established mechanisms in place for rapid delivery of flood relief is absolutely nuts. This isn't a surprise act of God. It's common.
Disaster preparedness should be a basic aspect of any government's portfolio. #Spéirgorm

You have until 5.30 today to write in to the government consultation on these fees. They're trying to price people out of protecting our land and water.

While on the other hand they're trying to give corporations an entirely new secret court to sue Ireland through CETA

Still time to apply to the #ECSR2026 conference at Trinity College Dublin on June 15-17 @tcddublin.bsky.social

organised by @tcdsociology.bsky.social and @esri.ie

Abstract submission deadline: January 11!

Submit an abstract: www.ecsr2026.net

Ban the hunting of foxes with packs of dogs on horseback in Ireland Can you support this campaign to bring in legislation banning the hunting of foxes using packs of dogs and horses?

This petition to ban fox hunting on horseback with packs of dogs is almost at 30,000 signatures ahead of tomorrow's Dáil debate

📣One more #tenuretrack Assistant Professor job going at TCD Sociology!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW155/a...

Closing date: January 26

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@eaps.bsky.social

New year, new job? Join us at the Department of Sociology & Nuffield College. The post is open to candidates from different areas of empirical specialisation and at different levels of experience. Please consider applying! closes Jan 5th. www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/associ...

Congratulations, Laura! You are amazing!!! So well deserved!

Couldn’t be prouder of our Sociology students!

Come over to the Exams Hall to meet Sociology students and staff during #TrinityOpenDay

I’ll be speaking about Sociology at Trinity at 14.45

#TrinityOpenDay

Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.

Excellent news in the UK #Budget2025 today! So many people and organisations have campaigned for abolishing the two child limit that should not have existed in the first place.

The fight to end child poverty goes on. But today we must celebrate. It will make a real, lasting difference to families the breadth of the UK and I’m so grateful to everyone in @changingrealities.bsky.social & @cpaguk.bsky.social who have advocated tirelessly for its full abolition

Opinion: Around the world, girls still don't have equal rights - but many are fighting for change Girls everywhere are growing up in systems that were never built for them, writes Gillian Barnett/

"Girls already know what they want. They’re not waiting for permission to dream big; they’re waiting for the world to catch up."

On World Children's Day, Gillian Barnett write that girls everywhere are growing up in systems that were never built for them.

jrnl.ie/6870030

Time to abolish the #twochildlimit.
It hurts the poorest large families the most.

See our Open Access paper with Jonathan Bradshaw showing how regressive the policy is:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant Professor in Sociology is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

📣 Trinity College Dublin is hiring 2 #tenuretrack Assistant Professors in Sociology.

👉 Environmental Sociology. Closing Dec 1
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH703/a...

👉 Gender and Sexuality. Closing Dec 2
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI055/a...

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Gordon Brown speaking at CPAG event

'You've got to treat children equally… You don't tell a child who's the third child, you're gonna have half the time at school. You don't tell them that the fourth child is going to have a third of the time.'

- Gordon Brown on scrapping the two-child limit for all kids.

Rachel Reeves signals plan to remove two-child benefit cap in budget Chancellor understood to be preparing to fully reverse measure, which would cost over £3bn but could lift 350,000 children out of poverty

What excellent news that Labour may finally be abolishing the regressive #twochildlimit that punishes children for having siblings

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Yes of course!

We're hiring 2 Assistant Professors of Sociology: Gender and Sexuality and Environmental Sociology. At @tcdsociology.bsky.social, we aspire to be a method-agnostic group of solution-oriented sociologists. Join our welcoming community at @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social. Deadline 1 Dec. Link in the comment.

Looking forward to our seminar with Dr Larissa Meier later today. 👏

Read more about our seminar series: tinyurl.com/bdhrsjx2

Looking forward to our seminar later today with our own Prof Richard Layte entitled "When do socio-economic inequalities in non-cognitive skills emerge in childhood and what does this tell us?". Read more about this term's series here ➡️https://tinyurl.com/bdhrsjx2

Well done Chloe O’Hanlon (PhD student at @tcdsociology.bsky.social) on presenting her capstone project on child poverty at the Growing Up in Ireland conference today.

Over five thousand children set to spend Halloween in emergency accommodation The latest emergency accommodation figures are due later and it’s been warned that the figures will likely increase this month.

'There's more than 5,100 children going to be spending Halloween in emergency accommodation.

'Families should be planning fun activities this weekend, not counting how many nights they have left in an emergency bed.'
jrnl.ie/6860518

Join our own Dr Phil Mullen for a fascinating conversation with broadcaster Afua Hirsch as part of @dublinbookfest.bsky.social More details and book your free ticket here: tinyurl.com/55zrkjsx @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social

CEB Award for Social Cohesion The CEB Award for Social Cohesion recognises outstanding achievements in promoting social inclusion and improving lives in Europe. Learn more about the award and its impact.

It's an honour to be joining the jury for the CoE Development Bank Award for Social Cohesion.

award.coebank.org/en/

Social entrepreneurs and social economy organisations in the CEB’s member countries compete for the €45,000 prize, with
another two shortlisted projects to receive €5,000 each.

Looking forward to Ilyar's presentation of our paper from @learnineq.bsky.social at next week's Growing Up in Ireland conference.

I’m lucky to have become an Irish citizen just in time to vote #1 Catherine Connolly.

What kind of country puts its pensioners ahead of children in poverty? | Polly Toynbee As long as a third of children are living below the poverty line, the government cannot justify keeping the pensions triple lock, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

What kind of country puts its pensioners ahead of children in poverty? | Polly Toynbee

Well done Chloe O’Hanlon (PhD student at @tcdsociology.bsky.social) on presenting her project on a new measure of child poverty for Ireland at a round table at Pobal yesterday.
A fascinating level of engagement from policy stakeholders at such an early stage in the project (incl DCED, DSP, CSO).