Equality Fund 2012-2013
Back to Equality FundThe College Equality Fund provides funding to staff and students on a competitive basis for a variety of equality projects. Selected projects 2012-13:In 2012-13 the College Equality Fund received 24 applications. Phase one of project selection has been completed and the allocation of whole or part funding for eight projects has been confirmed. This is a total allocation of €7,830 to date. Deferred from 2011-12: 2011-2012 AdministrationThe Equality Fund Sub-Committee membership 2012-13 comprised of :Professor Mélanie Bouroche (chair), Professor Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez, Ms Aisling Ní Chonaire, Ms Ann-Marie Moore, Mr Andrew McEwan, and Ms Michelle Garvey (Secretary). The themes for the 2011-2012 call were:
Projects detailsFeeling Part of it On and Off CampusWho: Trinity Vincent de Paul Society Details: The National Institute for Intellectual Disability(NIID) and the Vincent de Paul run a joint venture to ensure the full enjoyment and integration of students from the NIID into campus life. The group meets every Wednesday for two hours and engage in activities to enrich the extra curricular lives of both NIID students and volunteers. Funding will support various activities including a celebration of Chinese New Year, excursions, and the purchase of arts and crafts materials. Link/contact: animhao@tcd.ie Trinity TarzansWho: Sports Centre Details: The Sports' Centre will link with local city centre primary schools to organise Climbing Lessons on its Climbing Wall. It is expected that this programme will allow a coming together of children who would not normally interact with each other for health promoting activities. It will also act as an introduction to the College campus for children who may not have any association with the College. This will offer the potential to create an affinity with College and to instil an aspiration to study here. Link/contact: gillian.ogrady@tcd.ie Developing Female Speakers to Participate at the Oxford Women's OpenWho: Historical Society Details: The debating circuit is not equally represented by women with a lack of both female competitors and judges. This project seeks to encourage a greater number of female students to debate competitively. Funding will be used to help prepare and send female students to the Oxford Women's Open debating competition. Following the competition, the Historical Society will disseminate the outcomes and the learning of the project through a debate and a workshop. Link/contact: auditor@thehist.com Supporting Leisure for Students with Asperger's SyndromeWho: Unilink in Collaboration with the Disability Service Details: Over the past number of years there has been an increase in the number of students with Asperger’s Syndrome (AS) entering College. The Unilink Service in collaboration with the Disability Service support the students in their social integration into college by providing a weekly Social Leisure Group for students with AS. This group enables the students to meet to participate in leisure pursuits. The group has received funding through the Equality Fund to purchase leisure equipment to support leisure within the group. Link/contact: clgleeso@tcd.ie Balancing the Books - Ways to Manage your Fatigue and Develop a Balanced RoutineWho: Joint initiative between the staff and students of Occupational Therapy and the Unilink Service Details: Often, students with disabilities experience levels of fatigue that can significantly disrupt and impact on their academic performance and participation in college life. Fatigue is not solely limited to those with disabilities, but is experienced at high levels in the college population as a whole. The project will develop an informative and interactive resource on fatigue management for College staff and students. The resource will be in the form of an interactive workbook that will be available in print form as well as online. Link/contact: nolancl@tcd.ie All Faiths and None - A Forum on Faith Perspectives in Twenty-First Century IrelandWho: Theological Society Details: The religious identities within College are continuously changing but there is limited opportunity for constructive discussion and debate on faith. This forum aims to provide a space for this discussion through workshops and panel debates. This forum will include a keynote speech by Hans Köchler, Existential Philosopher. The Forum will include speakers from various faith backgrounds, religious demographics in the most recent Irish census, and religion's place in education and state policy. For more see the Event Facebook Page. Link/contact: leddenm@tcd.ie The Eliz WeekWho: The Elizabethan sub-committee under the University Philosophical Society. Details: The Elizabethan Society was an all-female debating society in Trinity College, established in opposition to the then male-only Hist and Phil. It was eventually subsumed under the Phil in the early 1970s, when the laws of the society changed, allowing women to become members. The 'Eliz Week’ is organised to coincide with International Women’s Week in College, 4th-8th March 2013 and includes events that aim to promote feminist discourse. It will link Eliz alumni to current members of the college community and assess the most pertinent issues facing young women today. The Equality Fund allocation will contribute to costs involved in an afternoon feminist paper reading and an evening debate on the topic ‘This house believes that feminism and the pro-life movement are incompatible’. Link/contact: secretary@tcdphil.com Past, Present and Future: The Multiple Roles of TCD Women ChemistsWho: The School of Chemistry Details: This project will raise awareness of the role of TCD women Chemists, in the development of their discipline, and in society. Chemistry, as is typical for disciplines within the Physical Sciences, has a systemic dearth of female academic staff. This year the school is one of two trial Schools in the Faculty of Engineering, Maths and Science for the implementation of Gender Action Planning, and for the first time in its history, the School has elected a female Head. The Equality Fund will provide the financial support to enable a half-day symposium involving female speakers who by example have been instrumental role models for future graduates. The School also hopes to identify the first female graduate of the School and to present the historic backdrop to the event. The School has also made contact with a large number of its alumni, and hopes to develop some of these links so as to provide a living web-based archive to record the past contributions made by female TCD Chemists to Irish society. Link/contact: smdraper@tcd.ie EdgewaysWho: Emer Delaney and the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies Details: This project will invite the Transition Year class from a school in Dublin 1, to visit Trinity’s campus for a one-day event. Moving between a variety of campus spaces visiting students will participate in small-group workshops, facilitated by volunteer postgraduate students from a variety of disciplines, focused on analysing gender in the media. At the end of the day, visiting students will be provided with information about studying in Trinity, and in particular the Trinity Access Programme, as well as links to further resources on gender issues. Subsequently, a report booklet will be produced, with contributions from both school students and postgraduate facilitators, and copies will be given to all persons involved and to other interested bodies. It is hoped that this will work as a pilot project to kickstart a dialogue between TCD postgraduates and the students in Larkin and other secondary schools. Link/contact: delanee1@tcd.ie Provision of a Trans* Health Awareness and TrainingWho: Trinity LGBT Details: The initiative will form part of a growing movement within college and in Ireland towards understanding what it means to be trans* and the specific needs for a trans* person that are taken for granted by someone whose gender identity matches their legal sex. Members of key College support areas such as the College Health Centre and the Student Counselling Service will receive a day-long training course with the Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) and health professionals recommended by them. This will have a long-term impact, as this becomes part of the institutional knowledge of these college student services. Beyond the specific help for trans members of the college community, it will also further add to students in general being more aware of issues relating to gender identity. Link/contact: quillw@tcd.ie ShOutWho: Eoin O'Liathain and individual students under the ShOut project Details: ShOut aims to strengthen the culture of inclusiveness and equality as it pertains to sexuality in College by acknowledging, celebrating and sharing it through a student run website, a Facebook page and associated events. It will, furthermore, celebrate this equality with an on campus exhibition of homosexuality in Ireland that will display how Ireland has changed over the years with regards homophobia, and the progress that is still needed. Link/contact: oliathae@tcd.ie Creativity ChallengeWho: DU Amnesty International Details: DU Amnesty will organise an artistic competition which will ask members of the College community to submit a piece of art (e.g. a painting, sketch, poem) that relates to women's rights. They will then host an exhibition of all of the pieces submitted during International Women's Week in March (3rd-8th) and invite prominent guest judges (e.g. Colm O'Gorman , Head of Amnesty Ireland, or Senator David Norris) to select a winning entrant. This project will engage entrants and the attendees in important international and human rights issues. Link/contact: bradym7@tcd.ie Did you Know....Who: Niteline, S2S, Parlour, SU and GSU Details: This project aims to promote positive approaches to mental health and to reduce the stigma associated with seeking support by jointly promoting all peer-to-peer supports on campus (Niteline, S2S, Parlour, SU and GSU) whilst addressing some of the barriers students may face in terms of seeking support. The campaign will challenge the perceptions or concerns that might prevent any student from accessing peer services to make the step towards speaking to someone seem a much simpler and easier thing to do. Ultimately it aims to promote a sense that needing help or support is a normal part of campus life, to encourage a more open discussion between students about mental health issues and positive mental health, as well as significantly increasing the accessibility of all peer-based support services in TCD. Link/contact: astleyr@tcd.ie Supporting students with disabilities on professional courses and in practice education – an online resource and support guide for staff and students.Who: Disability Service and staff and students from: Nursing & Midwifery, Social Work, Education, Medicine, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Radiation Therapy, Dental Science, Pharmacy, Clinical Speech and Language, Deaf Studies, Psychology (Clinical & Counselling). Details: The Disability Service is creating an online guide for all stakeholders (e.g. students, academic staff and placement supervisors) on supporting disabled students on professional placements. Planned supports for students with disabilities on placement in professional courses is an under developed area at present. Feedback from students and staff indicate the need for more information and practical case examples of supports that work in public settings. The benefit of the online guide is that it will function as a practical resource and support guide for current and potential students with disabilities on professional courses and in practice education. It will also provide guidance and improved disability awareness to the supervising staff on the placements. Link/contact: reillyde@tcd.ie Pathways transition assessment and planning toolDepartment/Society: Disability Service Details: The Pathways Transition Tool is a companion programme to the Pathways website and the Pathways Outreach project. It will provide a web-bases assessment and planning resource for second level students with disabilities preparing to start College. Link/contact: alison.doyle@tcd.ie |
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