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2020

Talk, Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies (SFM), Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 7 May.

Invitation to join the External Board of the PhD Programme in Transnational Governance, which is organised by the prestigious Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence in collaboration with the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa, Italy, 30 Mar.

Discussant, UCD Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence PhD Winter School, Dublin, Ireland, 15-16 Jan.

Presentation, UCD Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence PhD Winter School, Dublin, Ireland, 15-16 Jan.

Talk, Political Economy Working Group, EUI, Florence, Italy, 11 Jun.

Chair & discussant for a panel on 'The European Dimension of Labour Market Policies', Workshop 'Labour market dynamics, institutions and their mutual linkages: fostering interdisciplinary dialogue', EUI, Florence, Italy, 5 May.

Visiting Researcher, Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS), Florence, Italy, Feb-Jun.

Presentation, 4th conference of the Italian Association of Economic Sociology (SISEC), Italy, 31 Jan.

Presentation, UCD Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence PhD Winter School, Dublin, Ireland, 15-16 Jan.

Presentation, UCD Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence PhD Winter School, Dublin, Ireland, 15-16 Jan.

Invited talk, Council Meeting of the Federation Sud Santé Sociaux, Paris, France, 30 Jan. 

We invited Devi Sacchetto from University of Padova to give a public seminar on 'Shaping labour markets in the EU. The 'new 'skills of migrant workers' (27 Jan).

2019

ERC Team (UCD), Prof Guglielmo Meardi (SNS), Prof Adrienne Héritier (EUI), and the EUI Researchers at the ERC Workshop in Florence

Invited presentation, Colloquium of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), Germany, 5 Dec.

Presentation, ERC Workshop, Florence, Italy, 28-30 Oct.

Invited panelist, DBEI ILO NUI Conference, Dublin, 17 Sep.

Keynote speech and presentation, ILERA European Congress, Düsseldorf, Germany, 5-7 Sep.

Presentation, ECPR General Conference, Wroclaw, Poland, 4-7 Sep.

Editorial Board Member, European Journal of Industrial Relations, 1 Sep.

Presentation with Sabina Stan, ISA RC19 Annual Conference, Mannheim, Germany, 28-30 Aug. See Working Paper 4.

Presentation, UCD Spring Seminar Series, Dublin, 12 Jun.

External expert and conference participant, ETUC Congress, Vienna, Austria, 21-24 May.

Presentation, UCD SDGs Research Seminar Series 2019, Dublin, 14 May.

Appointed Vertrauensdozent (Liaison Professor) by the Hans-Boeckler-Foundation's scholarship department, which grants scholarships to about 2,900 students every year on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Düsseldorf, Germany, May.

Invited presentation, 20th Münchenwiler Retraite, Berne, Switzerland, 5 Apr. See Transfer  article 'Direct Democracy and Trade Union Action'. The Retraite is an annual, policy-oriented labour relations conference organised by the Swiss union UNIA in conjunction with the Swiss Trade Union Confederation SGB-USS. 

Contributions to the issue of flanking measures regarding equal pay for migrant workers which are threatened by the current draft Swiss-EU agreement. The contributions are available in the magazine of the Swiss Socialist Party (p. 13) and on the blog of the Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI) of the German trade union-related Hans-Boeckler-Foundation (both 18 Apr).

Discussant, International Doctoral Workshop on Employment Relations, Warwick Business School, Coventry, UK, 7-8 Mar. The discussion concerned two PhD chapters of students from SNS Florence and FAOS Copenhagen.

Workshop participant, second regional workshop of the joint HOSPEEM-EPSU 2019-20 EU-funded project, Rome, Italy, 15 Nov.

Workshop participant, ERC Workshop, Florence, Italy, 28-30 Oct.

Presentation, UCD Graduate Research Student Symposium 2019, UCD Sutherland School of Law, Dublin, 2 May.

Conference participant, ETUC Congress, Vienna, Austria, 21-24 May.

Presentation with Imre Szabó, UCD College of Business Research Symposium, Dublin, 18 Dec.

Invited presentation, CGIL conference to mark the ILO's 100th anniversay, Modena, Italy, 3 Oct.

Workshop participant, 'Labour & the Politics of Trade', Politics & Labour Network, University of Padova, Italy, 23-25 Oct.

Presentation, ERC Workshop, Florence, Italy, 28-30 Oct.

Presentation, ECPR General Conference, Wroclaw, Poland, 4-7 Sep.

Presentation, ISA RC19 Annual Conference, Mannheim, Germany, 28-30 Aug. See Working Paper 6.

Moderator, fringe meeting at the 10th EPSU Congress, Dublin, 5 Jun.

Conference participant, ETUC Congress, Vienna, Austria, 21-24 May.

Presentation, European Studies Centre Deakin Fellow Conference, Oxford, UK, 30 May. See co-authored BJIR article.

Presentation, ILERA European Congress, Düsseldorf, Germany, 5-7 Sep.

Presentation with Roland Erne, NERI Monthly Seminar, Dublin, 19 Sep.

Presentation, Department of Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, 14 May.

Presentation, Historical Materialism Conference, Athens, Greece, 2-5 May.

Conference participant, ETUC Congress, Vienna, Austria, 21-24 May.

Presentation, International Doctoral Workshop on Employment Relations, Warwick Business School, Coventry, UK, 7-8 Mar.

Workshop participant, second regional workshop of the joint HOSPEEM-EPSU 2019-20 EU-funded project, Rome, Italy, 15 Nov.

Workshop participant, ERC Workshop, Florence, Italy, 28-30 Oct.

Presentation, UCD Graduate Research Student Symposium 2019, UCD Sutherland School of Law, Dublin, 2 May.

Conference participant, ETUC Congress, Vienna, Austria, 21-24 May.

At the meeting in Zagreb

Presentation, ERC Workshop, Florence, Italy, 28-30 Oct.

Presentation with Roland Erne, ISA RC19 Annual Conference, Mannheim, Germany, 28-30 Aug. See Working Paper 4.

Panelist, fringe meeting at the 10th EPSU Congress, Dublin, 5 Jun.

Workshop participant, HOSPEEM-EPSU workshop 'Strengthening Social Dialogue in the Hospital Sector in the East, South and Central Europe', Bucharest, Romania, 14 Jun.

Invited talk, University of Tübingen Seminar on Social Europe, Germany, 9 May.

Conference participant, ETUC Congress, Vienna, Austria, 21-24 May.

Presentation with Darragh Golden, UCD College of Business Research Symposium, Dublin, 18 Dec.

Panelist, book launch of Wellsprings of Resistance - Struggles over water in Europe, Dublin, 12 Nov.

At the book launch with Pablo Sánchez Centellas and Madelaine Moore 

Workshop participant, 'Labour & the Politics of Trade', Politics & Labour Network, University of Padova, Italy, 23-25 Oct.

Presentation, ERC Workshop, Florence, Italy, 28-30 Oct.

Presentation, ECPR General Conference, Wroclaw, Poland, 4-7 Sep.

Invited presentation, The Political Economy of Public Sector Wage Setting in Europe Conference, Cologne, Germany, 16-18 Sep.

Presentation, ISA RC19 Annual Conference, Mannheim, Germany, 28-30 Aug. See Working Paper 5.

Panelist, fringe meeting at the 10th EPSU Congress, Dublin, 5 Jun.

Presentation with Aurora Trif, 42nd Annual Conference of the IARCEES, Dublin, 11 May.

Conference participant, ETUC Congress, Vienna, Austria, 21-24 May.

The call for applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship within the ERC project closed on 2 May.

March to June:  We organised the UCD Spring Seminar Series Labour Politics and the EU's New Economic Governance Regime - From Horizontal to Vertical Governance?  which we invited 4 guest speakers from Germany and the USA to: Alexandra KAASCH, Christian JOERGES, Martin SEELEIB-KAISER, and Nicolas JABKO.

March:  The UCD HRM&ER Group became a member of a consortium of leading institutions (LSE, Cornell, CEU, Amsterdam, Milan, FAOS, Warwick University) which organises an annual International Doctoral Workshop on Employment Relations.

2018

Presentation, UCD Geary Research Day 2018, Dublin, 13 Dec.

Presentation, WSI Herbstforum 2018, Berlin, Germany, 20-21 Nov.

Presentation, international public seminar on the special issue 24-2, 2018 of the SAGE journal Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research  entitled Trade unions and the polity: agendas and alliances, Dublin, 11 Oct.

Keynote speech, Study Days of the Association Francaise de Sociologie (AFS) and the Groupement d'Interet Scientifiques (GESTES), Paris, France, 6 Sep.

Keynote speech and presentation, Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC) 2018, Leuven, Belgium, 10/11 Sep. 

As in the past years, Roland Erne was invited in September to contribute a new chapter on 'Interest Groups' to the 2020 edition of the Oxford University Press textbook Comparative Politics. The textbook is a volume including some of the world's leading comparatists in political sciences. (Sep).

Presentation, Unite the UNION Ireland seminar Bargaining for Progress, Dublin, 10 May. 

Presentation with Sabina Stan, International Sociological Association (ISA) World Congress of Sociology 2018, Toronto, Canada, 15-21 July.

Presentation with Jamie Jordan, UCD HRM & Employment Relations Research Seminar, UCD Smurfit School of Business, Dublin, 14 June.

Presentation, Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC) 2018, Leuven, Belgium, 11 Sep. 

Presentation, Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC) 2018, Leuven, Belgium, 11 Sep. 

Presentation, Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC) 2018, Leuven, Belgium, 11 Sep. 

Presentation with Roland Erne, DCU School of Nursing and Human Sciences Research Expo, Dublin, Ireland, 5 December.

Presentation, Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC) 2018, Leuven, Belgium, 11 Sep. 

Presentation with Roland Erne, International Sociological Association (ISA) World Congress of Sociology 2018, Toronto, Canada, 15-21 July.

Presentation with A. Avram, Society for Romanian Studies (SRS) 2018 Conference, Bucharest, Romania, 29 June.

Presentation, international public seminar on the special issue 24-2, 2018 of the SAGE journal Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research  entitled Trade unions and the polity: agendas and alliances, Dublin, 11 Oct.

Invited presentation, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Miskolc, Hungary, 19 Sep. 

Presentation, Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC) 2018, Leuven, Belgium, 11 Sep. 

Jamie Jordan left the research team in November to commence a permanent lecturer position at De Montfort University (UK).

The call for applications for Doctoral Fellowships within the ERC project closed on 10 Apr.

The ERC Public Launch event took place in the UCD Smurfit School of Business, Dublin, 13 Mar.

2017

External expert, Eurofound, Dublin, Ireland, December. 4-year appointment following an international competition (Official Journal of the EU 2017/S 060-111260).

Invited talk with T. Mainil, European Patient Forum Round Table on Cross-border Healthcare, Brussels, Belgium, 4 Dec.

We established a Working Paper Series in November. The first two working papers are published by Roland Erne and Andy Storey.