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 2025 with a deadline for completed applications of 15th December 2025.  Following a selection process, the Dean of Graduate Studies announced the winners on 9th June 2026.  

Postgraduate Teaching Awards 2025/26

(Pictured above:  Dean of Graduate Studies, Professor Martine Smith, Anna Ni Chinseallaigh, Wai Qian Tham, Aisling Sheerin, Senior Lecturer and Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Vincent Wade)

The panel selected the following as winners in 2025/26:

Overall Winner:  Aisling Sheerin, School of Education, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Runners-Up:  Antonio Belfiore, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Anna Ni Chinseallaigh, Trinity Business School, Faculty of Arts, Humanites and Social Sciences and Wai Qian Tham, School of Engineering, Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

Shortlisted: Katerina Zouboulakis, School of Histories and Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Sofia Jesus, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Rodolfo Pezzi, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Nabin Bogati, School of Engineering, Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Shashwat Khandelwal, School of Engineering, Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

Postgraduate Teaching Awards 2024/25

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)