Staff Training

This online training module which is available to both staff and students is hugely important as Ireland becomes increasingly diverse. Ireland's increasing diversity combined with Trinity's international reputation has had massive implications for the demographic make-up of Trinity's student and staff populations.

Check out what some Trinity students said about the training module below:

‘Acceptance of being uncomfortable while dealing with race issues made me feel better and safe.’

‘There is a lot of complexities around racism and it highlights these well.’

‘Empowering for students who may feel uncomfortable talking about race.’

The programme aims to develop greater awareness of the nature of racism, and in particular provide an understanding of how racism may take the form of inequality and bias that is embedded in our universities in a systemic way. The module takes about 45 minutes to complete and you are provided with a certificate of completion at the end.

Online Training Module - Let's Talk About Race in the Higher Education Sector

Please Note: TCD sign-in credentials required. Click on the 'catalogue' tab to access the training.

Other Resources:

Trinity Colonial Legacies Project

Glossary: Goldsmiths University of London

Legislation & Policy: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission

Irish Network Against Racism

This Professional Learning Module is targeted to the needs of academic staff and all those who support teaching and learning at Trinity. Bringing teaching and support and service staff together, encourages a shared inclusive language and approach to engagement and communication with our student body and each other. Run by the Trinity Inclusive Curriculum Team, this module is tailored to the Trinity context, modelled on the AHEAD / UCD Digital Badge in Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Those who complete the module are eligible to claim the Digital Badge in UDL from the National Forum for Teaching and Learning. Participation involves no more than 20 hours in total, with most weeks requiring two hours of engagement at the most. The Module is run twice during the academic year and involves predominately self-directed and peer-group learning, combined with three online webinars.

Find out more about the module.

What is the Public Sector Duty?

The Public Sector Duty is a legal obligation on public bodies, contained in Section 42 of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014, to have regard to the need to eliminate discrimination, promote equality of opportunity and protect the human rights of public sector staff and service users.

It requires public bodies to Assess, Address and Report to:

• carry out an assessment of equality and human rights issues across functions;
• develop policies, plans and actions to address these issues; and
• report annually on progress and achievements in relation to those actions. 

Public Sector Duty eLearning module - Equality and Human Rights in the Public Service.

Unconscious bias is a term used to describe the associations that we hold which, despite being outside our conscious awareness, can have a significant influence on our attitudes and behaviour. Regardless of how fair-minded we believe ourselves to be, most people have some degree of unconscious bias. The term implicit bias is used to mean that humans are not neutral in their judgement and behaviour but instead have experience-based associations and preferences (or aversions) without being consciously aware of them (LERU 2018).

This 3-minute video by the Royal Society explains it well.

Online training is available here via these links:

• From 'Creating a Gender Sensitive Institution', an output of the SAGE project: Creating a Gender Sensitive Institution: Unconscious Bias
• From LinkedIn Learning: Unconscious Bias by Stacey Gordon (requires sign-in with Trinity username and password)