Could you contribute to Healthy Trinity through your work?
Students
Could you do a project on Smarter Travel initiative as part of your undergraduate or postgraduate work? Maybe something to do with attitudes to cycling, the effects of airborne particulate matter on mental health , the representation of trains in 19th century literature. You'll have better ideas than us and we would love to hear them.
We can't take on every idea we hear, because of limited resources, but we would really like to work wiht you if we can. We've had brilliant projects completed by students in the past. Some examples below.
Academics
Are you running a course or doing research that could contribute to Healthy Trinity's Smarter Travel work? Could your students complete assignments on Smarter Travel? Are you aware of a research funding call that you'd like to work with us on or that might help us get work done. Maybe you can think of another way to work with Healthy Trinity. We'd love to hear from you. Our resource aren't what we'd like them to be but we'd be grateful to hear your ideas and would do our best to work with you to make them happen. Some examples of how Academics have worked with Healthy Trinity in the past are below.
Get in Touch
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Mechanical Engineering
Assoc. Prof. Gareth Bennett's facilitated the Healthy Trinity: Smarter Travel group's work by asking his Universal Design Innovation students create solutions to problems associated with walking, cycling and public transport when commuting.
In 2019, to support Dublin hosting the Velo-city Conference, they created solutions to cycling problems. You can see their work here.
The National Transport Authority hosts Smarter Travel Campus Awards each year.In 2019, the winner of the Engineering and Innovation category were Trinity students:
- Peter Healy, Vaibhav Sethi, Samarth Naresh, Luke O’Higgins & Patrick Devaney won
The Trinity students below were short listed for awards:
- Peter McKeown, Danny Deery, Arnie Sasnauskas, Niall Halloran & Conall O’Kelly, Trinity College Dublin
- Ugne Bunikyte, Darragh Porter, Conor Twohig, Conor Gallagher & Cormac Mac Grory, Trinity College Dublin
Dr. Gareth Bennett won Best Lecturer.
In 2020, Gareth's students created these solutions to problems when walking, cycling or using public transport. Due to Covid-19, the the National Transport Authority Smarter Travel Campus award winners for 2020 have yet to be announced.
Pictured: Shortlisted students at the awards.
Social Marketing
Dr. Sarah Browne facilitated Healthy Trinity's work by asking her Social Marketing (not social media) postgraduates on the MSc. Marketing programme in the School of Business to create initiatives to address health issues across seven health areas, one of which was Smarter Travel. Four groups created created initiatives for cycling.
For further details, email: Martina Mullin on mullinm1@tcd.ie
Pictured: The social media content for one of the four cycling social marketing initiatives was created by Christina Norling, Amy Thompson, Conor MacMahon, Emily Kavanagh
Management Science and Information Systems (MSISS)
Dr. Nina Bresnihan facilitated Healthy Trinity's work by asking her MSISS undergraduates to create business plans for a Liveable Dublin. Students created 8 business plans and literature reviews on making Dublin more Liveable.
Ideas were related to cycling, sustainability, liveable cities for people with disabilities, food waste, sustainable tourism and greening the city.
For further information, email: Martina Mullin on mullinm1@tcd.ie
Pictured: One group of students researched and created a business plan for a sustainable behaviour tracking app