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Trinity projects awarded Research Ireland ‘New Foundations’ funding

Seven Trinity research projects have received funding from Research Ireland under its New Foundations programme. 

8 May 2025

Research|Society

Trinity’s Campus Security team declared 2025 Team of the Year

The team was declared Estates/Facilities Team of the Year 2025 at the AUDE Conference Awards Dinner and also won a Bronze award in the EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) category for work on student mental health and wellbeing.

1 May 2025

Awards and Funding|Community|Society

Law School receives gift to bolster Centre for Constitutional Governance

This gift will strengthen TriCON's role as a world-leading centre for constitutional scholarship, bringing together academics, legal practitioners, judges, and other stakeholders to discuss the challenges facing constitutional democracy today.   

1 May 2025

Awards and Funding|Research|Society

Pope Francis promoted women to unprecedented heights of power in the church

Dr Bronagh Ann McShane, Research Fellow on the VOICES project in Trinity's School of Histories and Humanities, with a piece first published by The Conversation in the wake of Pope Francis' death.

22 Apr 2025

Society

A day of curiosity and possibility: future doctors step into 'Mini Med Day'

The Trinity Access Programmes (TAP) Primary School Med Day is designed to spark curiosity and plant the seeds for future careers in medicine and healthcare.

16 Apr 2025

Community|Health|Science|Society

Viewing art can boost wellbeing by giving meaning to life

The simple act of looking at a piece of visual art can boost your wellbeing, a new research study from the School of Psychology has found, and this benefit can be gained in a hospital setting as well as an art gallery.

16 Apr 2025

Research|Society

Links between sport-related brain injury and dementia examined in new study

Retired high-performance contact sports athletes are being asked to participate in a ground-breaking research study led by the School Psychology and the School of Medicine investigating the links between sport-related brain injury and dementia risk in later life.

15 Apr 2025

Research|Science|Society

Medical fitness to drive guidelines launch by School of Psychology

The Road Safety Authority and National Office for Traffic Medicine in the School of Psychology have launched a major update to Ireland’s medical fitness to drive guidelines.

7 Apr 2025

Research|Society

Blended workforces creating high quality jobs in the project economy – new report

Blended workforces are creating high quality jobs in the project economy, according to the 2025 Project Economy report published today by Trinity Business School.

2 Apr 2025

Business|Research|Society

Public asked to help document Dublin’s old street signs

Led by the School of Histories and Humanities, the CLÓSCAPE project will document and preserve Dublin’s old bilingual street signs with their unique Gaelic typeface.

31 Mar 2025

Community|Culture|Research|Society