Teaching

Understanding Government: Theory and Reality

Undergraduate module examining how governments work in theory and in practice, and the tools political scientists use to study them.

UCD: Autumn 2025, 2026

Parties and Party Competition

Undergraduate module on party systems, party positions, election pledges, and responsiveness to public opinion, examining how well the mandate model of democracy describes political representation.

UCD: Spring 2020, Autumn 2021, Spring 2023

Representation and Party Competition

German-language BA seminar (Repräsentation und Parteienwettbewerb) on party competition, representation, responsiveness, election pledges, and policy diffusion.

University of Zurich: Autumn 2019, Spring 2020

Hope

UCD Discovery module exploring the theme of hope across disciplines, coordinated by Imelda Maher (UCD Sutherland School of Law).

UCD: Spring 2023, 2024, 2025

Quantitative Text Analysis

Introduces the quantitative analysis of textual data, covering classical text-as-data methods (dictionaries, scaling, topic models) alongside modern large language model approaches, with hands-on implementation in R.

University of Zurich: Spring, Autumn 2019 · UCD: Spring 2022–2027

Applied Data Wrangling and Visualisation

Comprehensive introduction to data management and visualisation in R, covering data cleaning and wrangling, AI coding assistants, relational databases with SQL, and web scraping.

UCD: Autumn 2024–2026

Connected_Politics

Team-based research module in which students design and execute a collaborative computational social science project using methods such as text analysis, machine learning, image recognition, and network analysis.

UCD: Spring 2021, 2022; Autumn 2025; Spring 2026; Autumn 2026; Spring 2027

Introduction to Statistics

Introduction to statistical concepts and regression analysis for social science research, with applied lab sessions using R.

UCD: Autumn 2020, 2021, 2022

Political Representation and Policy Preferences

Pre-research seminar on theories of representation and policy-making, covering public opinion measurement, responsiveness, congruence, and text-as-data methods, culminating in a research proposal.

University of Zurich: Autumn 2019, Spring 2020

Quantitative Text Analysis for Beginners

University of Bergen (opens in new tab) (2023, 2019); UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy (opens in new tab) (2022); University of Lucerne (opens in new tab) (2021); University of Hamburg (opens in new tab) (2021); Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (opens in new tab) (2020); University of Bremen (opens in new tab) (2020, 2018); COMPTEXT (2020: Innsbruck (opens in new tab); 2019: Tokyo (opens in new tab)); Swiss National Science Foundation (opens in new tab) (2019); Kobe University (opens in new tab) (2019); University of Düsseldorf (opens in new tab) (2019); Trinity College Dublin (opens in new tab) (2018); WZB Berlin (2018)

Creating Academic Personal Websites

Geneva Graduate Institute (opens in new tab) (2022); University of Lucerne (opens in new tab) (2022); University College Dublin (opens in new tab) (2020)

Data Wrangling and Visualisation

University College Dublin (opens in new tab) (2020); Trinity College Dublin (opens in new tab) (2017)

Reproducible Research with Git and GitHub

University College Dublin (opens in new tab) (2023, 2021)