 | SAI 2025: SAI 2025 University College Cork Cork, Ireland, May 8-9, 2025 |
| Conference website | https://sociology.ie/event/2025-annual-conference/ |
| Poster | download |
| Abstract registration deadline | January 31, 2025 |
| Submission deadline | January 31, 2025 |
| Abstract Decisions | February 14, 2025 |
| The early bird registration | February 28, 2025 |
| Registration closes | April 25, 2025 |
On behalf of the SAI Executive Committee, welcome to the SAI Annual Conference 2025. Our sincerest thanks to University College Cork (UCC) for hosting next year’s event and to the local organizing committee for their collegiality and support for the SAI and indeed, for our discipline.
The SAI Annual Conference remains a salient highlight of the research calendar for Irish sociologists and indeed, for the Irish sociological diaspora. It has served as a vehicle for critical discussion on theory, methodological innovation and cutting-edge research on social, economic and cultural change. Furthermore, it has served a pivotal role in advocacy and activism on issues affecting our own profession; namely precarity, care, the 'glass ceiling' and the status accorded to sociology in the contemporary university, in the context of increasing neo-liberal ‘creep’. These conference events continue to inspire our students to engage in ‘next generation’ thinking, to reconsider their own places within the world, and to reflect on the power of their own research to create meaningful transformation and make a ‘real impact’ in people’s lived realities.
Next year’s event in UCC will undoubtedly live up to these high standards, advancing dialogue and action in relation to the world’s biggest challenges, and furthering the camaraderie, friendship and care that is characteristic of these SAI events.
I wish you a successful and enjoyable SAI conference 2025.
Lisa Moran
(BA, Dip, MA, PhD, PG Dip, MA, FHEA, SFHEA, MA)
SAI President
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
Full papers
- We welcome all sociological research.
- The conference is especially keen to showcase/create space for feminist and decolonial analysis in Irish sociology and strongly encourages scholars working in those areas to submit, to address the gaps in the Irish sociological canon.
- We encourage all contributors to consider employing a feminist and decolonial lens in their paper.We encourage research that is in dialogue with the wider public and communities, to provide models of how sociology is engaged in politics, causes, movements, and communities.
- Posters describing any ongoing study.
Committees
Program Committee
- Lisa Moran
- John O'Brien
- Tanya Watson
Organizing committee
- Gerard Boucher
- Egle Gusciute
- Clark Powers
- Amin Sharifi Isaloo
- Mike Hynes
- Aimie Brennan
- Adepeju Olaide Oti
- Amy Healy
- Daniel Guigui
Contact: Tanya Watson
All questions about submissions should be emailed to: SAI25@ucc.ie