Patricia Kelleher and and Cathleen O’Neill have produced a significant piece of research on the community and equality movement in Ireland ‘Systematic Destruction of the Community Development, Anti-Poverty and Equality Movement (2002-2015)’ click here to access the report
International conference freedom on freedom of speech and higher education
ESRI Seminar: “Equality and Human Rights Monitoring in Britain: Theory and Practice”
ESRI Seminar: “Equality and Human Rights Monitoring in Britain: Theory and Practice” Venue: Clayton Hotel Cardiff Lane, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2 Date: Thursday 23 March 2017 Time: 4pm Speaker: Tania Burchardt, The London School of Economics and Political Science Dr Tania Burchardt
Symposium: Inequality in Irish Higher Education. 6th Dec, 1 – 6pm, UCD, Newman Theater 1
The Irish Research Council Equality Studies Project, UCD School of Education invites you to a research symposium Inequality in Irish Higher Education on Tuesday, December 6th 2016. The purpose of this symposium is to create a forum for discussion on new empirical
Korean version of “Affective Equality: Love, Care, and Injustice” (Lynch et. al 2009) has just been published!
We are delighted to announce that the volume Affective Equality: Love, Care, and Injustice (Lynch et. al 2009, Palgrave) has been published in Korean translation. Cover left, original below.
Prof. Kathleen Lynch to speak at the seminar of the Department of English, Maynooth University – 4pm, 12 Oct, Iontas
Event details: Date: October 12, 2016 Time: 4pm Venue: Iontas Seminar Room, Ground Floor, Iontas Title of the Talk: ‘Metrics and Markets in Higher Education: Creating Care-Less Citizens’ Event page: link
Three recent talks by Professor Kathleen Lynch: abstracts

Over the last three weeks, Professor Kathleen Lynch has been invited to present her work at three academic events, in Ireland, Austria, and the UK. You can see the abstracts of her talks below. — Kathleen Lynch (2016) “Why Affective
VIDEO: Professor Nancy Folbre “The Political Economy of Patriarchal Capitalism”

On May 12th 2016 Professor Nancy Folbre presented a public lecture on The Political Economy of Patriarchal Capitalism, at University College Dublin (UCD) at the invitation of the Irish Research Council funded project Equality in Working, Learning and Caring Project. In this
Professor Kathleen Lynch presents at a conferenceon The Affective Domain: Love, Care and Social Justice. Conference hosted by The Havens Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 2016
Professor Kathleen Lynch spoke at the Havens Center for Social Justice (Sociology Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) on the 19th – 21st April 2016, as part of a conference hosted by the centre on The Affective Domain: Love, Care and
#Right2Change: Why Free Education Matters: Why financing education through student loans/debt is problematic – Prof. Kathleen Lynch
In the 19th century, when free primary education was first proposed in Europe, it was vehemently opposed by property owners on cost grounds; others claimed it might lead to social revolution as poor people would be able to read. In