Research Themes, Groups and Centres
As one of Trinity’s five flagship research institutes dedicated to advancing the university’s strategic research priorities, the Trinity Long Room Hub supports Trinity’s five Arts- and Humanities-led research themes.
Research Themes
The Trinity Long Room Hub supports research groupings and emerging areas of critical mass, which currently include democracy and the media, human-centred approaches to technology development, neurohumanities, and medical and health humanities.
Interdisciplinary Research Centres
It hosts six interdisciplinary research centres, most of which have emerged from the themes above:
- Trinity Centre for the Book
- Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies
- Trinity Centre for Digital Humanities
- Trinity Centre for Post-Conflict Justice
- Trinity Centre for Beckett Studies
- Trinity Centre for New Irish Studies
Centres within Arts and Humanities Schools
It also works closely with the research centres based within our Arts and Humanities Schools.
- The Centre for Deaf Studies
- The Centre for Early Modern History
- The Centre for Contemporary Irish History
- The Centre for Gender and Women's Studies
- The Medieval History Research Centre
- The Centre for New Irish Studies
- The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- The Centre for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies
- The Centre for Language and Communication Studies
- The Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation
- The Centre for Music Composition
- The Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing
- The Plato Centre
- The Trinity Irish Art Research Centre