Joint winners of second annual Registrar’s Civic Engagement Award announced

Posted on: 20 June 2019

The Registrar’s Civic Engagement Award aims to recognise exceptional contributions made by staff to civic engagement, advancing our goal to benefit the public good. It acts as an inspiration to others and a means of highlighting such valuable work. 13 nominations were received from across the three Faculties showing the breadth of civic engagement activities and the variety of ways the College works with our wider communities, eleven of which went forward to full application for consideration by the panel. The award winners were announced at a ceremony held in Regent House on Tuesday, June 18.

This year two separate nominations were tied for the award which went jointly to two initiatives addressing issues of intellectual disability:

Joint winners of second annual Registrar’s Civic Engagement Award announced

IDS TILDA research team led by Prof Mary McCarron (Intellectual Disability Supplement to The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing). IDS-TILDA is the first study in the world to directly compare the ageing experience of people with an intellectual disability to the general population.  Before the establishment of this study, only minimal information was available on the prevalence and incidence of disease, in addition to the economic and social well-being of adults with intellectual disability in Ireland.

Professor Michael Shevlin, Director of the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities (TCPID), was awarded in particular for his work on addressing the educational disadvantages experienced by people with intellectual disabilities through the provision of a high-quality higher education programme (level 5) designed to enhance the capacity of learners to participate fully within society as independent adults.

All of the individuals or projects are profiled on the Civic Engagement web pages.

Speaking at the award ceremony the Registrar congratulated all of the nominees and noted the exemplary work being carried out by all. The benefit to society of the various projects highlighted through the award nominations is wide and significant. In addition to the joint awardees this year, other projects addressed social innovation, public access to science research at the highest levels and science education, healthy living and public health, peace and reconciliation, smart city innovation and research-led teaching in the area of public advocacy.

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