Upcoming EDI Events at School of Medicine

This page will be continuously updated to list upcoming EDI events in the School of Medicine. For information on college-wide EDI activities, please see here.

February 2026: 

Visiting Professors 

This February we are excited to host a number of events, supported by the Visiting Professor Fund: Pride in School of Medicine – Tallaght University Hospital Campus Event 

Hospitality: A Critical Appraisal of EDI – 25th February 

The Discipline of Occupational Therapy in Trinity College Dublin warmly invite you to a lecture by visiting Professor Frank Kronenberg "Hostipitality: A Critical Appraisal of EDI". "Hostipitality" coined by Jacques Derrida, combines the concepts of hospitality and hostility, acknowledging that both are rooted in the Latin term 'hostis'.

Dr Frank Kronenberg, co-founder of the movement Occupational Therapists without Borders, is an honorary researcher at the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town and guest-lecturer at universities internationally. His education-research-practice intends to generatively disrupt apolitical and ahistorical occupational therapy and theorize a political historized humanizing praxis. 

 Event Details:
📅 Date: Wednesday, 25^th February 2026
🕒 Time: 1:00pm

📍 Venue: Durkan Lecture Theatre, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James's Hospital, D08 W9RT

This is a free event, but registration is required.

👉 Please register via Eventbrite here.

Active Bystander Training - Open to staff and UG/PG students – 26th February 

Dr Sean Roe of the School of Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast, will deliver Active Bystander Training (ABT) on 26th February. With a background in medical education, he specialises in applying ABT within health-science and healthcare settings. 

The training uses authentic scenarios developed by staff and students at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) to model situations in which problematic behaviours—sexism, racism, homophobia, and transphobia—require challenge. ABT equips participants with strategies for safe intervention and promotes a culture where such behaviours are less normalised. This aligns with actions identified across Athena Swan applications in the Faculty, including the School of Medicine, where improved responses to inappropriate behaviour have been highlighted as priorities. Implementing ABT is therefore a key step toward strengthening a respectful, inclusive culture. 

 Event Details: 
📅 Date: Thursday, 26th February 2026 
🕒 Time: 9:30am 
📍 Venue: Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute 

This is a free event, but registration is required. 

👉 To register, please go to: Active Bystander Training by Dr Sean Roe - 26th February 2026, TBSI – Fill in form 

Physiology as Activism—A Transformative Approach to Sustainable Development and Authentic Assessment - 26th February 

Dr Mary McGahon and Dr Sean Roe, School of Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), will present an assessment model that integrates the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals into physiology teaching. Over two years at QUB, this model has provided a meaningful, context-rich approach to assessment while cultivating “physiology activists.” Students have engaged with issues such as wartime trauma, intimate partner violence, gender inequalities—especially within healthcare—and climate action. Many reported the assessment as deeply meaningful and often transformational. 

This approach responds to global challenges and aligns with TCD’s Sustainability Strategy 2023–2030, which prioritises climate action, biodiversity protection, and healthier futures. The presenters argue that students are vital partners in addressing such challenges and that educators must equip them with the skills and values needed to help build a sustainable, equitable world. 

 Event Details: 
📅 Date: Thursday, 26th February 2026 
🕒 Time: 2:00-3:00pm 
📍 Venue: B2.50, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute 

This event is free and open to all. 

Beyond “Fixing” Study Skills—A Team-Based Ecosystem for Inclusive Writing Support - 26th February 

This workshop, delivered by Dr De Almeida McLoughlin, School of Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), outlines learning-development practices in QUB’s Centre for Biomedical Sciences Education, focusing on embedded academic writing instruction and coordinated one-to-one support involving advisors of studies and academic staff. Guided by QUB’s Accessible Learning, EDI, and Sustainability principles, it demonstrates how staged writing development—from first-year transition support to final-year project workshops—can demystify scientific writing for diverse cohorts, including those entering through non-traditional routes. 

Highlighting referral pathways, student-support processes, and collaborative feedback loops, the workshop positions one-to-one guidance not as remedial but as an essential mechanism for transparency, accessibility, and inclusion, enabling all students to develop the literacies and confidence needed to succeed as future scientists and health professionals. 

 Event Details: 
📅 Date: Thursday, 26th February 2026 
🕒 Time: 3:00-4:00pm 
📍 Venue: B2.50, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute 

This event is free and open to all.