Postgraduate Teaching Awards

Trinity Teaching Awards for Postgraduate Students recognise the outstanding commitment of Trinity's postgraduate teaching assistants to achieving excellence in teaching and learning.  

To recognise the substantial contribution that Trinity's postgraduate research students make to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and learning, the Graduate Studies Office administers the annual Trinity Teaching Award for Postgraduate Students.

Schools may nominate up to 3 postgraduate students for consideration by the selection panel, which is chaired by the Dean of Graduate Studies and has cross-Faculty and student representation.

 Trinity Teaching Award for Postgrad Research Students Nomination Form (DOCX).

The call for nominations was issued to Schools in November 2024.  Following a selection process, the Dean of Graduate Studies announced the joint winners in June 2025.  It was followed by a ceremony held on 24 June to congratulate the winners and nominees. 

The panel selected the following as winners in 2024/25:

Joint Overall Winners: Katie Essene Deevy, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sophie McGurk, School of Histories and Humanities (Classics), Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Pictured above L to R:  Frances Leogue (Office of DGS), Hollie Moore, Rafael Silva, Katie Essene Deevy, Dylan Kirby, Sophie McGurk, Imogen Eve, Marina Schenkeil, Marco Radaelli, Professor Martine Smith (Dean of Graduate Studies)