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Come and join a great team in Dublin! The post would also suit a quant sociologist with an interest in microsimulation #ECSR @europeansocreview.bsky.social
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Great to see coverage of our latest report funded by the Dept of Children today. Many of the children experiencing deprivation but who are not below the income poverty line are in households with high housing costs, have incomes just above the poverty threshold or have additional costs or debts
Powerful piece by #ThomasO’Driscoll
All 16 reports available @esri.ie website www.esri.ie/publications
Including 2 handy new overview publication
Stark differences in educational participation in IE and NI, which lie behind many of other differences found in the Shared Island research programme Adele Bergin @esri.ie providing an excellent overview
Delighted to hear Taoiseach Micheál Martin discuss the findings of the @esri research programme on the social and economic issues on a shared island. He mentions the untapped potential of cooperation and challenges faced highlighted by the research.
Benefits for father’s leave in Ireland are paid at a flat rate & are lower than in most EU countries. Fathers who have more of the income replaced are more likely to take leave, as are those in couples where the mother is the main earner. Read more in our new study published today!
🗣️Karen Kiernan, CEO One Family, on last night's RTÉ news responding to latest Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) research on low-income households (1/2)
#oneparentfamilies #singleparent
Today, @ESRI.ie, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY), and @deptjusticeirl.bsky.social have published the Monitoring Report on Integration 2024.
💡 Read the key findings: www.esri.ie/news/migrant...
📄 Download the full report: www.esri.ie/publications...
Congrats Kat! Well deserved.
“Mental health, addiction issues among parents & a lack of resources in disadvantaged communities can impinge on a child getting to school.”
Prof Emer Snyth in today's @irishtimes.com discussing our recent report 'The School Completion Programme revisited':
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Today, we have published 'Paths, Tracks, Gaps and Cliffs: The post-school pathways of students with special educational needs'
🏫 Young adults with disabilities value school for its social aspects, though those with multiple conditions face more challenges
A graphic advertising an event that reads: 'Geary Lecture: Understanding Immigration: Labour Markets, Policy, and Public Perception", Professor Christian Dustmann (UCL), Professor of Economics, University College London, Date: Wednesday, 2 April 2025, Time: 16:00-17:00, Location: Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI). Register at ESRI.ie/events. There is an image of a globe symbolising immigration.
EVENT | Join us for our annual Geary Lecture where Prof Christian Dustmann (UCL) will deliver a talk titled "Understanding Immigration: Labour Markets, Policy, and Public Perception".
🗓 Wednesday, 2 April 2025
⌚ 16:00-17:00
📍 ESRI
Register: www.esri.ie/events/under...
Coverage of new @esri.ie study with @ihrec.bsky.social on the extra costs that people with a disability face. Leading to even higher poverty rates than those regularly reported
“As per usual, meeting the contestants is also an opportunity to see job descriptions that the labour economist Richard Scarry never dreamed of.” - love this😂
Our report on the cost of disability is finally out ! Co-authored with @karinadoorley.bsky.social & @agathesimon.bsky.social, it shreds light on the stark financial burdens faced by households with disabled members. 🧵👇
Dublin City's greening of neighbourhoods takes next step, but community group says more action needed to account for trees not replaced irishcycle.com/2025/03/12/d...
EVENT | Join us online for the launch of the 2024 Monitoring Report on Integration, which examines outcomes for migrants in employment, social inclusion, education and active citizenship.
🗓 Monday 31 March 2025
⌚ 11:30 - 12:40
💻 Online via Zoom
Register here: www.esri.ie/events/monit...
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS APPROACHING!
⭐ Call for Abstracts: SLLS Conference 2025 ⭐
Life Course Transitions and Patterns: Stronger Evidence for Better Policies
University of Fribourg, Switzerland / 8-10 September
Submission Deadline: 14th March 2025
www.sllsconference.com/callforabstr...
Graph showing trends in absenteeism 2018-22 in schools in Ireland. UB1, urban band 1, are schools in the most disadvantaged areas
Worrying trends in school attendance post-Covid in both primary and secondary schools in Ireland. Highest absentee rates in the most disadvantaged school. High levels of school completion have been a real success story but declining attendance &school engagement threatens this
Today, we have published 'Promoting a nationwide collective response: lessons from the social activity measure during the COVID-19 pandemic.'
💡 Read the Research Bulletin: esri.ie/publications...
📄 Download the full report: esri.ie/publications...
Gender Pay gap at Irish universities (2024, Median hourly pay gap)
ATU: 12.6%
DCU: 8.3%
Maynooth: 8.86%
MTU: 8.5%
SETU: 24.3%
TCD: 11.0%
TUD: 18.25%
TUS: 6.7%
UCC: 11.56%
UCD: 2.66%
UG: 14.4%
UL: 8.6%
Source: @paygap.bsky.social paygap.ie/companies
Paid internship for final year undergrad/masters students to work on an exciting environmental policy project
📚 Interested in getting some hands-on experience in migration and asylum policy research?
✍️ Apply to join the EMN Ireland for our summer internship!
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Today, we have published 'Sexual Health Literacy and Sexual Health Behaviours among Young Adults in Ireland' and 'Sexual Initiation and Sexual Health Behaviours among Young Adults in Ireland'.
💡 Read the key findings from the research: www.esri.ie/news/new-esr...
The PhD programme in Political and Social Sciences at the @eui-eu.bsky.social recruits new candidates, deadline 31 January 2025. With scholarships from all over Europe, candidates can get their own national scholarship to work on their PhD thesis in Florence. Tell your master students!
Disappointing to see we’re going backwards in level of female representation. ‘Labour leader Ivana Bacik pointed out that there are as many men called James as there are senior women in Cabinet.’ ! Not a good look for Irish politics. We need more diverse voices in decision-making not less
