Cian O’Callaghan
@ciantocallaghan
Urban geographer at Trinity College Dublin
Also finished reading this alongside. A graphic memoir that offers another nuanced, funny and sad reflection on gender and labour, capitalism and extractivism and more
Please share - Trinity Geography is hiring for a tenure track position of Assistant Professor in Human Geography with a focus on Historical/Cultural Geography Job details can be found here jobsireland.ie/en-US/job-De...
If one third of the housing stock was social housing we probably wouldn’t have half the housing problem we have. But it suits the far right (for obvious reasons) and the government (to detract from their policy failures) to inflate migration figures & their impact on housing. Fuelling misinformation
I am organising a session with @kathleenstokes.bsky.social Suraya Scheba and Judith Lehner on “Vacancy, occupation and communing in global conversation” at RC21 in Vienna 2026 - see call for abstracts here rc21-vienna2026.org/call-for-abs...
Another example of the same elevating an issue of minor importance
Catching up a few days late here. But was very pleased and proud to see @alexiacobrien.bsky.social graduate with her PhD in geography on a very rainy Thursday in Trinity
Gathering insights from stakeholders and those who have undertaking VATSU renovations, the research aimed not only to document the barriers but also identify how a coordinated approach could scale up the response.
It uses interviews with stakeholders to identify barriers to bringing vacant housing back into use. Our analysis shows that barriers often overlap several areas of concern.
One of the key outputs from this was the development of a provisional typology of vacancy in Dublin. This was designed to get away from seeing vacancy as a singular number and instead relating to several urban policy challenges.
What a perfect poem, not to mention the elemental play of the music. youtu.be/5Up_w6ntK9g?...
My colleague Anna Davies relaunching the Future Cities Research Centre today in @tcddublin.bsky.social Also lending her expertise for the event (with a wonderful story about the bus depot in Newcastle NSW) was Harriet Bulkeley
Postdoc opportunity in the University of Cape Town. Please share to anyone who might be interested
What's a poster you had in your room growing up? I’m not sure if it was this rendering exactly but definitely a pencil drawing of this photo
I’ve made an open access pre-print of the introduction to this available for anyone who might be interested in exploring (and maybe picking up a copy of the book in your library or online 😊) www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Cranes on the downtown skyline, it’s a sight to see for some, it ought to make a few reputations, in the cult of number one