News Archive: 2018

Professor Anna Davies wins Irish Research Council ‘Researcher of the Year’
On the 5th December 2018 Professor of Geography, Environment and Society, Anna Davies, won the highly prestigious Irish Research Council (IRC) Researcher of the Year award.

Geography graduate wins the Trinity ESAI Undergraduate of the Year Award
Jade Connor has been awarded the Trinity ESAI Undergraduate of the Year Award 2017-2018.
Geography graduate selected as Ireland’s United Nations Youth Delegate
Aisling O’Boyle, Political Science and Geography Class of 2018, was recently selected as Ireland’s Youth Delegate to the United Nations.

Book launch: Borders, Mobility and Belonging in the Era of Brexit and Trump
Date: 18th October 2018, 6-8pm Freeman Library, Museum Building, Trinity College Dublin

Cultivating New Urban Landscapes
Prof. Anna Davies gives a plenary presentation at the Royal Geographical Society’s Annual Conference in Cardiff in August 2018

Dr Padraig Carmody gives keynote address at Chinese Social and Cultural Geographers Meeting
Pictured are Professor Jason Dittmer of University College London, Dr Ning An from Guangzhou University and Dr Padraig Carmody of TCD Geography

Trinity Geographer elected to International Science Council
Our very own Chair of Geography, Environment and Society, Professor Anna Davies, FTCD MRIA, was elected as an ordinary member of the first Governing Board of the ISC on July 4th.

MDP student publishes essay on ROAPE.
MDP student Dónal Ring writes a piece entitled Rwanda’s Contested Model: Economic Rents, Development and Stability.

Post-doctoral Research Position: political ecologies of water infrastructure.
The position starts on 1st September and closing date for applications is 22nd June.

Geography Society of Ireland Book Award Winner
Dr Patrick Bresnihan’s recent book, “Transforming the Fisheries: Neoliberalism, Nature and the Commons”, has won the Geographical Society of Ireland’s “Book of the Year” award for 2017/18.