Academic Research Centres

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• The Locus Project Aims to produce a new Historical Dictionary of Irish placenames and tribal names to replace Fr Edmund Hogan's Onomasticon Goedelicum. Based at University College Cork.
• NUIG: Social Science Research Centre: Embraces the full range of the social sciences at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
• Centre for European Studies Based at Trinity College Dublin.
• Trinity College Dublin: Children's Research Centre Offers doctoral program description, publications, news, links and contact information.
• UCD: Social Science Research Centre Promotes and develops research by the staff of the Departments of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work at University College Dublin.
• The Policy Institute A collaboration between the Department of Politics and Economics in Trinity College Dublin.
• Institute for British-Irish Studies This institute mirrors similar ones in Northern Ireland, Scotland and England and is based at UCD.
• Centre for Equality Studies Pursues the inter-disciplinary study of significant equalities and inequalities in human life. Based at University College Dublin.
• Centre for Gender and Women's Studies Based at Trinity College Dublin.
• Geary Institute Combines programmes from Sociology, Social Policy, Economics, Politics, The Centre for Equality Studies and the Institute for British-Irish Studies. Based at University College Dublin.
• Centre for Peace and Development Studies Based at the University of Limerick
• Migration and 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.
• National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA) National University of Ireland, Maynooth