THE CENTRE FOR GENDER AND WOMEN’S STUDIES

TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND

1988

Management and equipment. Structure

  • Director           
  • Assistant Professor                        
  • Director Emeritus     
  • Teaching Staff

Objectives

  • To undertake three interrelated activities: teaching, research and community/extramural activities. Using an integrated approach to research and learning, both staff and students are encouraged to participate across these areas.
  • The aim of the Research Unit of CGWS is to undertake socially relevant research from a feminist perspective, asking challenging questions about the type of society we have and the type of society we wish to create.

Research and results

  • Lifescapes: Mapping Dublin Lives [No information in website]
  • Life History Knowledge Exchange Archive [No information in website]
  • Women and Ambition in the Irish Civil Service (Maryann Valiulis, Deirdre O’Donnell, Jennifer Redmond, 2008). Report published in the Centre website.

Ongoing projects

  • Bridge-IT Project: Hilda Tweedy.
  • Bridge-IT Project: Digitally Connecting Academic Research with the Wider Community in Ireland (Maryann Valiulis, Deirdre O’Donnell, Jennifer Redmond, Amanda Piesse, Niamh Brennan, Linda Doyle).