Economy + Society PhD Summer School

11/05/2018

Weather for the week of looks dry but a bit overcast and not very warm. Fingers crossed for a dry Wednesday for the walk to the Abbey and Thursday so that the public interview can be done outside on the terraces.

13/11/2017

Open for applications: 2017

http://economyandsocietysummerschool.org/

Week long residential summer school in a castle in rural Ireland, with core staff and visiting speakers leading an intensive interdisciplinary discussion on Economy + Society.

25/05/2017

22/05/2017

Bathed in sunshine Blackwater Castle hosting the E+S PhD Summer School 2017.

06/05/2017

Great line-up for the 2017 Summer school: Looking forward to seeing you all there.

09/02/2017

Really inspiring to see students thinking like this.

Unhappy at how economics is out of touch with reality and defined by an elite, Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins sum up their explosive call for change

22/01/2017

Hopefully a summer school escapes these pitfalls!

Allan Johnson on the misunderstood B-sides of conference presentations

10/01/2017

Some thoughts on the Ivory tower that the summer school is trying to move beyond...

Asylum today means both sanctuary from violence or oppression, but also a place of incarceration. The term originates from ancient Greek, where solun meant seizure, so asolun meant freedom from ... Read More

27/12/2016

Another reason to return to theoretical debates about economics.

If you believe that economies are like machines, you will likely view economic problems as essentially problems of mathematics. But the great economists throughout history, such as John Maynard Keynes and Joseph Schumpeter, have always understood that an approach emphasizing formal precision has sev...

12/12/2016

Opinion: Irish higher education is increasingly commercial in its approach to teaching and research

07/11/2016

A taste of the summer school - in the sort of glorious weather which is probable for the 2017 event.

Economy + Society PhD Summer School 2016 Public Interview with Prof. Tom Inglis, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin. In conversatio...

27/10/2016

Save the date: Economy + Society Summer School 8-12th of May 2017