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Seven Trinity researchers and staff receive IRC Research Ally awards

Irish Research Council honours supervisors, mentors, and research and technical support officers for their valuable contributions to research.

21 Nov 2023

Professor Anne-Marie Healy wins SFI Mentorship Award

The award recognises Professor Healy’s commitment to over thirty years mentoring both students and graduate researchers working in the fields of formulation science and drug delivery.

21 Nov 2023

Awards and Funding|Health|Research

Professor Anna Davies wins Irish Research Council Impact Award

Anna, Professor of Geography, Environment and Society at Trinity, has won the 2023 Irish Research Council Impact Award for her longstanding commitment to world-class research that focuses on facilitating action for a more sustainable society.

21 Nov 2023

Awards and Funding|Research|Sustainability

College Awareness Week Celebrates 10 years with the TY Challenge Finals in Cork!

To celebrate 10 years of College Awareness Week, MTU Cork hosted the launch to coincide with the TY Challenge finals.

20 Nov 2023

Community|Students

Giving voice to children in refuge from domestic violence

Trinity study which represents the first time that research has been conducted in Ireland with children in refuge, will be launched by Ombudsman for Children, Niall Muldoon

20 Nov 2023

Health|Research|Society

Trinity hosts LERU Rectors’ Assembly

LERU is an association of research-intensive universities with common viewpoints on higher education and research.

20 Nov 2023

Trinity launches Civic Engagement Action Plan

What is a civically-engaged university? Trinity now has a plan that sets out its goals.

20 Nov 2023

Community|Research|Society

Building national capacity for open research

Three Trinity projects have received funding under the National Open Research Forum (NORF) as part of a drive to build national capacity and infrastructure for open research.

20 Nov 2023

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science|Society

Dr Nollaig Bourke wins Wellcome Career Development Award

The prestigious award valued at €2 million is the 6th Wellcome Career Development Award in Ireland and Northern Ireland and the second awarded to a Trinity researcher

20 Nov 2023

Awards and Funding|Health|Research

Fewer staff, students are walking and cycling, survey finds

The numbers walking fell to 20% from a high of 28% in 2018, while the cycling rate was sharply down (-59%) from 2011.

20 Nov 2023

Community|Environment|Students

Plants might be able to absorb more CO2 from human activities than previously expected

This research paints an uncharacteristically upbeat picture for the planet, but despite the headline finding, the environmental scientists behind the work say it does not mean the world’s governments can take their foot off the brake in their obligations to reduce carbon emissions as fast as possible.

17 Nov 2023

Environment|Research|Science

Trinity wins European Social Services Award for child-centred research

Judges noted that “internationally, relatively few examples of research exist that represent the authentic voice of the child in the child protection system”.

17 Nov 2023

Awards and Funding|Community|Research

Trinity celebrates sport scholars for the 2023/24 season

This year’s awardees, comprising 36 Trinity Sport scholars and 28 club academy scholars will represent Trinity this season across seventeen sports including rugby, basketball, GAA, soccer, rowing, and cricket.

15 Nov 2023

Awards and Funding|Community|Students

Trinity invites submissions on legacy issues and renaming of the library

"It is important for us to listen to as many voices as possible, as we embark on a further evidence-based review of legacy issues. This website offers us an important mechanism to do that.”

15 Nov 2023

Community|Research|Society|Students

World COPD day: research, advances and collaboration

Today, November 15th, is World COPD Day. Professor Suzanne Cloonan writes about the disease, its incidence in Ireland, current research and the establishment of an international research network which was founded to expand our understanding of COPD.

15 Nov 2023

Health|Research

Accounting for nature a priority for Ireland’s prosperity – new report

The team behind a pioneering project for nature, INCASE, has issued a series of recommendations to value, restore and protect Ireland’s resources through applying a natural capital accounting framework as a national priority.

15 Nov 2023

Environment|Research|Science

Celebrating Student Life: TAP marks 30th birthday with contemporary art exhibition

As well as an online auction, the 'Essence of Student Life' exhibition will run daily from November 14th to 17th in the Exam Hall in Trinity College with artist walkthrough sessions and other activities happening daily.

14 Nov 2023

Arts|Community|Culture

Opinion: Supreme Court’s interpretation of Judicial Appointments Bill matters greatly

Prof Oran Doyle, School of Law, provides an explainer on the upcoming Supreme Court hearing of legal argument about the constitutionality of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill. This was first published in the Irish Independent.

13 Nov 2023

Research|Society