Sustainability Research
Sustainability research is prominent across faculties in Trinity and is represented in some of our major research themes and research centres.
Research themes relevant to sustainability include Smart Sustainable Planet, International Development, International Integration, Next Generation Medical Devices, Making Ireland, and Telecommunications.
Relevant research centres, networks and projects include the following:
Trinity will headquarter this new 41.3 million euro research centre. It will be the home of research, innovation, and policy development across the interlinked challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and water degradation on the islands of Ireland and Britain.
Watch the video on the Climate+ Co-Centre.
TCE - Trinity Centre for the Environment
Trinity Centre for the Environment (TCE) continues to encourage and facilitate interdisciplinary research and teaching in all aspects of the environment. The TCE acts as a hub for academics, postdocs and postgraduates who work in the area of environmental science, or who wish to visit Trinity in order to carry out research in a related area.
Nature +, The Trinity Centre for Biodiversity and Sustainable Nature-based solutions, is a multidisciplinary team of researchers based in Trinity College Dublin that makes discoveries about the natural world and human interactions with nature, and develops solutions for quantifying and sustainably managing natural capital.
TRIP - Centre for Transport Research and Innovation for People
The Centre for Transport Research and Innovation for People (TRIP) is a multidisciplinary centre, funded by the HEA PRTLI programme. The centre is based at Trinity and has a link with UCC. The aim of the centre is to develop and deliver cohesive and dynamic interdisciplinary research on a range of topics including ICT in transport, solving urban congestion, quality of life, safety and the environmental impacts of transport. Generally speaking the research projects of the centre involve input from at least two disciplines and this is a fundamental principle on which the centre works. Those disciplines typically include civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, computer science, geography, economics, psychology and social sciences.
Trinity Centre for Social Innovation
The mission of the Trinity Centre for Social Innovation is to make a positive impact on society and the environment through engagement, research, innovation and teaching. The centre contributes in a meaningful way to changing the way people and institutions in Ireland and around the world develop and deploy business skills and resources to create environmental and social impact.
TCEH - Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities
The Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities (TCEH) aims to raise levels of environmental consciousness, perception and action through multi-disciplinary (history, literature, media and culture studies, anthropology, sociology, and geography, to name a few) research and education. Global climate change is a complex issue requiring intelligent solutions to its social and environmental dilemmas. Drawing upon expertise from across the humanities, social and natural sciences, the Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities provides a collaborative forum and interdisciplinary atmosphere for addressing major questions concerning how humans face pressing environmental challenges.