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Assoc ProfessorIarfhlaith Watson

Associate Professor

School of Sociology

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  • Associate Professor
    School of Sociology
  • 01 716 8569
  • University College Dublin, School of Sociology, Newman Building Belfield Dublin 4

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    'An tSeachtain' le Máirín Ní Ghadhra ar Raidió na Gaeltachta (opens in a new tab)⁠
    2 Apr 2022
    Plé le faoi Raidió na Gaeltachta ag 50 bliain d'aois. Discussion of Raidió na Gaeltachta at 50 years of age.
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Undergraduate Awards of Ireland and Northern Ireland Sociology Essay competition Panel of Judges
    1 May 2009 - 30 Sep 2009
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    College of Human Sciences Heads of Teaching and Learning
    1 Sep 2007 - 31 Aug 2010
    Member
  • PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
    ASEN
    1 Jan 2006
    Member of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism various years since 2006
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    IRCHSS Govt of Ireland Research Project Grant 185,282.50 Euro
    1 Jan 2006
    I was awarded 185,282.50 Euro [with Dr M�ire Nic Ghiolla Ph�draig] by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences as a Government of Ireland Research Project Grant for the purposes of fielding and archiving surveys as part of the International Social Survey Programme. This award was competitively won.
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Organizing Committee for celebrating 40 years of the Social Science Research Centre
    1 Sep 2004 - 30 Apr 2005
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Irish Journal of Sociology
    1 Sep 2002 - 31 Dec 2002
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Visual Studies
    1 Sep 2002
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    IRCHSS Govt of Ireland Research Project Grant 112,500 Euro
    1 Jan 2002
    112,500 Euro was awarded to Dr. M�ire Nic Ghiolla Ph�draig and me by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences as a Government of Ireland Research Project Grant for the purposes of fielding and archiving surveys as part of the International Social Survey Programme.
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Irish Journal of Sociology
    1 Sep 2001 - 1 Sep 2005
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    International Visual Sociology Assocation
    1 Jan 2000 - 1 Jan 2005
    Member
  • PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
    IVSA
    1 Jan 1997 - 31 Dec 2017
    Member of the International Visual Sociology Association since 1997
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Bord na Gaeilge Bursary
    1 Jan 1995
    This Bursary was awarded by the national body Bord na Gaeilge, which has since been replaced, under the Good Friday Agreement, by a cross-border body called Foras na Gaeilge. For this bursary I conducted a piece of research with the title 'The Needs of Irish-Speakers in Irish Society Generally'.
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Communications Fellow
    1 Jan 1993
    IR�3,500 was awarded to me by the Head of the Communications Unit of the Department of Sociology, UCD (Dr Mary Kelly) for the first year of my PhD studies.
  • PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
    SAI
    1 Sep 1992
    Member of the Sociological Association of Ireland since 1992
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    'Boundaries, Bytes and Ballyhoo,' IVSA, Minnesota 2001
    Member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    'Images of Social Life: exploring the new foundations of visual studies' International Visual Sociology Association Conference University of Southampton, 8-10 JULY 2003
    Member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    'Visualizing Community, State and Nation: Images of power and social bond,' Greece July, 2002
    Member
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Raidi� naGaelachta
    Dr Iarfhlaith Watson was invited to record for radio his paper 'C� acu is m� at� ar leas na Gaeilge - an n�isi�n-st�t n� an t-ilt�reachas?' about the Irish Language, the Irish nation and cosmopolitanism. It was first aired on 02/01/13 on Raidi� na Gaeltachta.
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Social Science Board of Studies
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Social Science intake review Sub-Committee
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Social Science School Liaison Officer
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference, 2001
    Member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference, 2002
    Member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference, 2003
    Member