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Women's Education and Research Resource Centre
WERRC is a feminist centre developing multi-disciplinary feminist research, theory and scholarship at University College Dublin.
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.
Trinity College Dublin: Children's Research Centre
http://www.tcd.ie/childrensresearchcentre/
Offers doctoral program description, publications, news, links and contact information.
The Policy Institute
http://www.tcd.ie/policy-institute/
A collaboration between the Department of Politics and Economics in Trinity College Dublin.
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.
National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA)
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
International Famine Centre
The centre is involved in research, advocacy, and action on the ground in countries threatened by famine. Based at University College Cork.
Institute for British-Irish Studies
This institute mirrors similar ones in Northern Ireland, Scotland and England and is based at UCD.
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.
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 Peace and Development Studies
Based at the University of Limerick
Centre for Gender and Women's Studies
Based at Trinity College Dublin.
Centre for Equality Studies
Pursues the inter-disciplinary study of significant equalities and inequalities in human life. Based at University College Dublin.