Catch up with Faculty staff in the media this week, speaking on their research and helping our understanding of current issues.
Professor Stephanie Holt, School of Social Work and Social Policy, is featured in multiple articles and media on the research report commissioned by Women’s Aid on which she was chief investigator. The study, which involved almost 440 victims of DVA, was carried out by colleagues from the School of Social Work and Social Policy Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork. The report is available here on the Women’s Aid website and is entitled ‘Exploring How Victim-Survivors of Domestic Violence and Abuse Experience Navigating the Irish Family Law System in Guardianship, Custody and Access’.
- Irish Times 03 June 2025: Domestic abuse victims say their ordeals continue or even worsen despite family law proceedings. System has blind spot, leaving adults and children silenced and at risk, says Women’s Aid.
- RTÉ website 04 June 2025: Abuse survivors 'retraumatised' by family law system, says Women's Aid.
- RTÉ News 04 June 2025: Professor Stephanie Holt, is interviewed about the research report on the operation of the Irish family courts system. Watch here from 15.25.
- RTÉ News 04 June 2025: More on the work led by Professor Stephanie Holt, on adult and child victims of domestic abuse being “retraumatised” during family law proceedings. Watch here from 29:52.
- FAHSS News item 05/06/2025: Further information on the research study and report.
Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, School of Histories and Humanities, served as associate producer on the new RTÉ TV four-part documentary series entitled 'From This Small Island' which airs from Sunday 08 June 2025. A host of Trinity academics from the disciplines of History and Genetics contributed to the series. Professor Ohlmeyer and the series feature in an article in the Irish Times on 31 May 2025: We Irish were never homogeneous. Always hybrids, always mongrels.
Dr Stephen O'Neill, School of English, writes how the poet Seamus Heaney's writing changed in response to violence in Northern Ireland, in an article in The Irish Times to tie in with a conference the School of English is co-hosting with the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen's University at QUB from 05 to 07 June 2025.
- Irish Times 01 June 2025: Seamus Heaney’s North at 50: Poetic landmark 'came most intensely out of the first shock of the Troubles'.
- The conference also features in an article in the Irish Independent 02 June 2025: Literary experts from around the world to mark 50 years since publication of Seamus Heaney’s landmark collection 'North'.
For more information on the North at 50 conference please see the following:
Professor Sven Vanneste, School of Psychology, is the feature of a research profile in which he details his work in auditory neuroscience and the drive to develop therapies for tinnitus in an article in the Irish Independent on 03 June 2025: 'I’m living away from my family as I try to find a cure for tinnitus in Ireland'. (Subscriber content)
Professor Daniel Geary, School of Histories and Humanities, writes a comment piece in the Irish Times 02 June 2025: What Trump is doing to US universities is not as bad as the McCarthyite witch trials – it’s worse. (Subscriber content)
Professor Sean Duffy, School of Histories and Humanities, gives his views on plans to mark the 1,000th anniversary of William the Conqueror in the Irish Times 02 June 2025: The truth behind the Normans and Ireland: 'They abolished slavery'. (Subscriber content)