Action Area: Research

Strategic Objectives 2022-27

1. Prioritise research that is co-created with the local community and local services, of an excellent standard, and with local impact and wider applicability.
2. Support research that identifies the health needs of the local population and current gaps in service provision.
3. Create an environment and infrastructure to attract external researchers, research collaborators and research funding to the area and partnership.
4. Develop a community laboratory setting to test innovative approaches to care delivery that can then inform national policy and implementation.

The action areas of the APCC are naturally overlapping. Research outcomes inform service delivery, which has an impact on local communities and residents, who in-turn inform the next research questions through helping to advocate for service needs, and the overall trends relating to community health inform our educational needs and our programme offerings...and so a cycle of continual engaement is encouraged for the betterment of all aspects of our work.

Outreach to Transition Year Students in Tallaght

Every year the APCC hosts a European Researchers Night event where 100 TY students from local schools come to the Institute of Population Health to hear about the wide range of research activities taking place across the Faculty of Health Sciences. This event creates visibility of Trinity's physical footprint within the local Tallaght community, through welcoming students and teachers into the space. It also serves to stimulate ideas and highlight some of the possibilities available at Trinity College, for any prospective students, researchers, and staff. In 2025 the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences hosted an information event about opportunities in that Faculty, further broadening the reach of Trinity within the Tallaght community.