📄 Our new Student FAQs are ideal for Leaving Cert PolSoc students, but also helpful for those in CSPE, SPHE and Digital Media Literacy. Parents and teachers - let them know we answer questions on reporting harmful content, mis- and disinformation, and much more... #OnlineSafety
Information for students - Coimisiún na Meán
Protecting children and young people from illegal and harmful content online is one of our key priorities. We understand that once a child or young person sees something upsetting or distressing onlin...
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September 2, 2026 at 8:12 AM
📄 Our new Student FAQs are ideal for Leaving Cert PolSoc students, but also helpful for those in CSPE, SPHE and Digital Media Literacy. Parents and teachers - let them know we answer questions on reporting harmful content, mis- and disinformation, and much more... #OnlineSafety
There’s probably other stuff, but I’ve only done my first Demon Dom, an hour ago, so still learning. I promise I won’t be mad at your critiques (but like my polsoc teacher said, a critique is a negative and positive)
And of course if you want my normal tf/reality warp. You can also say so~
And of course if you want my normal tf/reality warp. You can also say so~
August 1, 2026 at 8:53 PM
There’s probably other stuff, but I’ve only done my first Demon Dom, an hour ago, so still learning. I promise I won’t be mad at your critiques (but like my polsoc teacher said, a critique is a negative and positive)
And of course if you want my normal tf/reality warp. You can also say so~
And of course if you want my normal tf/reality warp. You can also say so~
New Article: Global Food Insecurity in 2026 and beyond
open.substack.com/pub/polsoc/p...
open.substack.com/pub/polsoc/p...
April 9, 2026 at 3:46 PM
New Article: Global Food Insecurity in 2026 and beyond
open.substack.com/pub/polsoc/p...
open.substack.com/pub/polsoc/p...
🎉 Great success at the PhD Workshop March 11-12, 2026!
The PolSoc Department becomes the epicentre of the latest debate in the political and social sciences. 👏
www.upf.edu/web/phd-poli...
The PolSoc Department becomes the epicentre of the latest debate in the political and social sciences. 👏
www.upf.edu/web/phd-poli...
PhD Workshop March 11-12, 2026 - PhD Programme in Political and Social Sciences - UPF
www.upf.edu
March 16, 2026 at 3:43 PM
🎉 Great success at the PhD Workshop March 11-12, 2026!
The PolSoc Department becomes the epicentre of the latest debate in the political and social sciences. 👏
www.upf.edu/web/phd-poli...
The PolSoc Department becomes the epicentre of the latest debate in the political and social sciences. 👏
www.upf.edu/web/phd-poli...
yeah, pretty sure he wasn't radicalised while studying PolSoc
December 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
yeah, pretty sure he wasn't radicalised while studying PolSoc
Oireachtas Education Officer, Conor Reale's recent doctoral research: ‘A Different Sameness’: Exploring the multifaceted identities of politics and society teachers in Ireland – offers fascinating insights into the role of PolSoc teachers.
Detailed summary here:
ipen-network.org/exploring-th...
Detailed summary here:
ipen-network.org/exploring-th...
Exploring the multifaceted identities of Politics and Society teachers in Ireland – IPEN
ipen-network.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Oireachtas Education Officer, Conor Reale's recent doctoral research: ‘A Different Sameness’: Exploring the multifaceted identities of politics and society teachers in Ireland – offers fascinating insights into the role of PolSoc teachers.
Detailed summary here:
ipen-network.org/exploring-th...
Detailed summary here:
ipen-network.org/exploring-th...
Looking forward to returning to Carlow College this weekend to co-facilate another Politics & Society pedagogy workshop for teachers undertaking the Higher Diploma in the subject area. #PolSoc
October 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Looking forward to returning to Carlow College this weekend to co-facilate another Politics & Society pedagogy workshop for teachers undertaking the Higher Diploma in the subject area. #PolSoc
Looking forward to meeting teachers and presenting my approach to facilitating student citizenship projects & report writing in PolSoc at next week's PASTAI Annual Conference.
This coursework component will be moving from 20% - 40% weighting, meaning the need for more structured student support.
This coursework component will be moving from 20% - 40% weighting, meaning the need for more structured student support.
October 29, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Looking forward to meeting teachers and presenting my approach to facilitating student citizenship projects & report writing in PolSoc at next week's PASTAI Annual Conference.
This coursework component will be moving from 20% - 40% weighting, meaning the need for more structured student support.
This coursework component will be moving from 20% - 40% weighting, meaning the need for more structured student support.
In 2025, young people from Nepal to Morocco, Peru to Indonesia have filled streets, flooded social media, and challenged governments under one shared banner sometimes literally. What unites them is not geography, but a generational identity: Generation Z.
open.substack.com/pub/polsoc/p...
open.substack.com/pub/polsoc/p...
October 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
In 2025, young people from Nepal to Morocco, Peru to Indonesia have filled streets, flooded social media, and challenged governments under one shared banner sometimes literally. What unites them is not geography, but a generational identity: Generation Z.
open.substack.com/pub/polsoc/p...
open.substack.com/pub/polsoc/p...
October 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Are We Losing the Fight Against Climate Breakdown?
open.substack.com/pub/polsoc/p...
open.substack.com/pub/polsoc/p...
September 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Are We Losing the Fight Against Climate Breakdown?
open.substack.com/pub/polsoc/p...
open.substack.com/pub/polsoc/p...
PolSoc formal (…we’ve never been to PolSoc)🫶🏼
May 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
PolSoc formal (…we’ve never been to PolSoc)🫶🏼
📢 Hilary Benn MP Visits Notre Dame! 🎤✨
Today, we welcomed Hilary Benn MP to our PolSoc group for a lively discussion on global and UK politics. 🇬🇧🗣️ Our students asked big questions—and got big answers!
Huge thanks to Hilary for the insightful session! 👏 Check out the full story 👇 shorturl.at/mHn2g
Today, we welcomed Hilary Benn MP to our PolSoc group for a lively discussion on global and UK politics. 🇬🇧🗣️ Our students asked big questions—and got big answers!
Huge thanks to Hilary for the insightful session! 👏 Check out the full story 👇 shorturl.at/mHn2g
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Visits PolSoc | Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College, Leeds
Hilary Benn MP visited Notre Dame PolSoc students in a thought-provoking session, discussing international relations, changing technology, and more!
shorturl.at
March 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
📢 Hilary Benn MP Visits Notre Dame! 🎤✨
Today, we welcomed Hilary Benn MP to our PolSoc group for a lively discussion on global and UK politics. 🇬🇧🗣️ Our students asked big questions—and got big answers!
Huge thanks to Hilary for the insightful session! 👏 Check out the full story 👇 shorturl.at/mHn2g
Today, we welcomed Hilary Benn MP to our PolSoc group for a lively discussion on global and UK politics. 🇬🇧🗣️ Our students asked big questions—and got big answers!
Huge thanks to Hilary for the insightful session! 👏 Check out the full story 👇 shorturl.at/mHn2g
Maybe the point is that Adolescence should be shown in all secondary schools. And yes, teachers of English and PolSoc, year heads, teachers of SPHE and civics and more must generate debate & discussion around it. Bcos many kids come from dysfunctional homes & schls may be only safe space for same
Schools again!
What else would you like us to do that parents should be doing?
'Compulsory viewing' in my my PolSoc and CSPE classes this week: current data on homelessness, childhood poverty, school places for children with autism, housing and staff shortages in health & education. #Citizenship
What else would you like us to do that parents should be doing?
'Compulsory viewing' in my my PolSoc and CSPE classes this week: current data on homelessness, childhood poverty, school places for children with autism, housing and staff shortages in health & education. #Citizenship
Simon Harris said Netflix’s TV drama Adolescence should be “compulsory viewing in secondary schools around the country”
March 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Maybe the point is that Adolescence should be shown in all secondary schools. And yes, teachers of English and PolSoc, year heads, teachers of SPHE and civics and more must generate debate & discussion around it. Bcos many kids come from dysfunctional homes & schls may be only safe space for same
Schools again!
What else would you like us to do that parents should be doing?
'Compulsory viewing' in my my PolSoc and CSPE classes this week: current data on homelessness, childhood poverty, school places for children with autism, housing and staff shortages in health & education. #Citizenship
What else would you like us to do that parents should be doing?
'Compulsory viewing' in my my PolSoc and CSPE classes this week: current data on homelessness, childhood poverty, school places for children with autism, housing and staff shortages in health & education. #Citizenship
Simon Harris said Netflix’s TV drama Adolescence should be “compulsory viewing in secondary schools around the country”
Conor McGregor and Andrew Tate should be ‘social pariahs’, says Tánaiste
Conor McGregor and Andrew Tate should not be social media influencers but instead "social pariahs," Tánaiste Simon Harris has said.
www.independent.ie
March 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Schools again!
What else would you like us to do that parents should be doing?
'Compulsory viewing' in my my PolSoc and CSPE classes this week: current data on homelessness, childhood poverty, school places for children with autism, housing and staff shortages in health & education. #Citizenship
What else would you like us to do that parents should be doing?
'Compulsory viewing' in my my PolSoc and CSPE classes this week: current data on homelessness, childhood poverty, school places for children with autism, housing and staff shortages in health & education. #Citizenship
Prof Przeworski, one of the giants of our time in polsci (and polsoc too), is sharing a record of his thoughts here as events unfold. Riveting, reflective, and deeply insightful read.
I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.
Diary
Week 1
open.substack.com
February 20, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Prof Przeworski, one of the giants of our time in polsci (and polsoc too), is sharing a record of his thoughts here as events unfold. Riveting, reflective, and deeply insightful read.
But yes, I have taught English in the UK for some time. After long battle, the TC recognised my pedagogical quals; and (hilariously) instantly recognised my HDip in PolSoc (done in Ireland). But I have to do somehow, somewhere do some extra modules to be recognised as a teacher of English.
February 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
But yes, I have taught English in the UK for some time. After long battle, the TC recognised my pedagogical quals; and (hilariously) instantly recognised my HDip in PolSoc (done in Ireland). But I have to do somehow, somewhere do some extra modules to be recognised as a teacher of English.
Our dog has listened to me deliver online evening and weekend lectures in politics and sociology for two years now. He could register with the Teaching Council to teach PolSoc at this stage.
February 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Our dog has listened to me deliver online evening and weekend lectures in politics and sociology for two years now. He could register with the Teaching Council to teach PolSoc at this stage.
Just finished piloting a unit of learning with a 5th Year Politics & Society class titled 'Understanding Youth Participation.'
It's being designed by WWGS www.worldwiseschools.ie and should be ready in time for the 2025-26 school year.
I thoroughly recommend it to all teachers of #PolSoc
It's being designed by WWGS www.worldwiseschools.ie and should be ready in time for the 2025-26 school year.
I thoroughly recommend it to all teachers of #PolSoc
WorldWise Global Schools - Development Education Funding
WorldWise Global Schools offers a range of supports for teaching Development Education at post-primary level. The programme is funded by Irish Aid.
www.worldwiseschools.ie
January 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Just finished piloting a unit of learning with a 5th Year Politics & Society class titled 'Understanding Youth Participation.'
It's being designed by WWGS www.worldwiseschools.ie and should be ready in time for the 2025-26 school year.
I thoroughly recommend it to all teachers of #PolSoc
It's being designed by WWGS www.worldwiseschools.ie and should be ready in time for the 2025-26 school year.
I thoroughly recommend it to all teachers of #PolSoc
A great way to help second-level students understand identity politics.
#PolSoc #CSPE #CitizenshipEd
#PolSoc #CSPE #CitizenshipEd
January 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
A great way to help second-level students understand identity politics.
#PolSoc #CSPE #CitizenshipEd
#PolSoc #CSPE #CitizenshipEd
Looking forward to delivering my first lecture on the PME programme in DCU later today.
#PolSocTeachers #T&L #PolSoc
@schoolhumandev.bsky.social @dcuclimate.bsky.social
#PolSocTeachers #T&L #PolSoc
@schoolhumandev.bsky.social @dcuclimate.bsky.social
January 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Looking forward to delivering my first lecture on the PME programme in DCU later today.
#PolSocTeachers #T&L #PolSoc
@schoolhumandev.bsky.social @dcuclimate.bsky.social
#PolSocTeachers #T&L #PolSoc
@schoolhumandev.bsky.social @dcuclimate.bsky.social
A 1978 NY Times article highlighting Robert Nozick's idea of libertarianism and his critique of social-democratic liberalism. #PolSoc
www.nytimes.com/1978/12/17/a...
www.nytimes.com/1978/12/17/a...
HARVARD'S NOZICK: PHILOSOPHER OF THE NEW RIGHT (Published 1978)
Jonathan Lieberson article on Harvard Prof Robert Nozick, exponent of libertarianism whose book, Anarchy, State and Utopia, discusses individual rights vs powers of the state; says that while book def...
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A 1978 NY Times article highlighting Robert Nozick's idea of libertarianism and his critique of social-democratic liberalism. #PolSoc
www.nytimes.com/1978/12/17/a...
www.nytimes.com/1978/12/17/a...
Teachers of 5th Year Leaving Cert #PolSoc will be interested to know that the project titles for 2026 have been realeased by the SEC. Some very interesting research topics.
January 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Teachers of 5th Year Leaving Cert #PolSoc will be interested to know that the project titles for 2026 have been realeased by the SEC. Some very interesting research topics.
I had a school Politics & Society account on there and found it really useful for engaging students in political affairs. A lot of other PolSoc colleagues had similar school accounts. We closed ours down within a few months of Musk purchasing it. Didn't want to be a passive follower of fascist shite
January 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I had a school Politics & Society account on there and found it really useful for engaging students in political affairs. A lot of other PolSoc colleagues had similar school accounts. We closed ours down within a few months of Musk purchasing it. Didn't want to be a passive follower of fascist shite