Signature Research Themes

School's Thematic Research Areas

The School's research is structured around six key thematic areas:

1. Environment and Nature: 
The School has a strong international reputation for work in the areas of the Philosophy of Science, Environmental Ethics, Philosophy of Technology and Metaphysics including historical, methodological and ethical issues to do with big data, AI and robotics, metaphysical questions concerning causation and essentialism, the phenomenology of nature, ecofeminism and ecomodernism.

2. Religion and Faith/Beliefs in Society:
The School produces world-class research on the history of religion, with a particular strength on Ireland and continental Europe.  

3. Childhood, Youth and Gender:
Building on its pioneering work in women’s history, the Department continues to produce important research in social history, in particular, the experience of children and youth, church and state policy towards the family, and the family as a vehicle for the transmission of historical memory

4. Ethics, Technology and Justice:

5. State and Society:
The Department has a long-held reputation for outstanding research on Ireland’s relationship with the outside world: from the study of empire to Ireland’s place in the Atlantic World and its relationship with Britain. We have recently broadened these transnational and comparative perspectives on Ireland to include its entanglements with central and eastern Europe and the Global South.

6. Culture and Creativity:

Stockholm, Sweden