Academic Research Centres

Academic Research Centres Links

• Centre for Peace and Development Studies Based at the University of Limerick
  
• Social Science Research Centre: NUIG The Applied Research component at NUIG.
  
• Research Consortium Against Drugs Based at TCD
  
• Social Science Research Centre: UCD The Appled Research centre at UCD
  
• WERRC (Women's Education and Research Resource Centre) Based at UCD. Attractive website.
  
• The Irish Centre for Migration Studies Based at UCC
  
• Employment Research Centre Based at Trinity College, this centre has done much EU-sponsored research. The centre headed by Prof. James Wickham has a well maintained site with excellent information on each of the projects including the full reports. Also includes a Labour Market Observatory.
  
• Centre for Social and Educational Research Based at DIT
  
• Institute for British-Irish Studies This institute mirrors similar ones in Northern Ireland, Scotland and England and is based at UCD.
  
• Irish placenames and tribal names: LOCUS Based at UCC
  
• Institute for the Study of Social Change This new institute looks set to be one of Ireland's leading centres for third level research into the Social Sciences and combines programmes from Sociology, Social Policy, Economics, Politics, The Centre for Equality Studies and the Institute for British-Irish Studies. Based at UCD,
  
• The International Famine Centre: Based at UCC
  
• The Policy Institute This Institute is a collaboration between the Department of Politics and Economics in Trinity College. The site is updated but very basic and hard to navigate.
  
• Dublin European Institute Based at UCD
  
• Centre for Equality Studies Based at UCD
  
• The National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA) Based at NUIM
  
• Centre for Gender and Women's Studies Based at TCD. The site is very attractive, but has not been updated in quite some time.
  
• Centre for European Studies Based at TCD
  
• Children's Research Centre Based at Trinity, this is the only centre of its kind and is sponsored by the Departments of Psychology and Social Policy, respectively.