Awards and Funding - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin

Trinity researchers secure Research Ireland Pathway awards

Four Trinity researchers have secured awards worth a combined total of €2.57 million under Research Ireland’s Pathway funding programme.

25 Jun 2025

Awards and Funding|Culture|Health|Research|Science

Trinity researchers receive €500,000 to develop AI platform to help teachers

The €500,000 funding was granted under Enterprise Ireland’s Commercialisation Fund, which supports third-level researchers to translate their research into innovative and commercially viable products, services and companies.

23 Jun 2025

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Science

Three new Trinity projects to address climate challenges

Dr John Kennedy, Prof. Wolfgang Schmitt, and Matthew Chersich have secured Environmental Protection Agency funding to support related research.

19 Jun 2025

Trinity climbs to 75th place in 2026 QS World University Rankings

Trinity’s Provost and President Dr Linda Doyle said: “The rankings news encourages us to be even bolder in our ambition for Trinity and, indeed, for Ireland - an ambition that should be championed and defended regardless of the rankings. "

19 Jun 2025

Awards and Funding|Community|Research

Bronnann Coláiste na Tríonóide céim oinigh ar an ngníomhaí Gaeilge Linda Ervine

Bronnann Coláiste na Tríonóide céimeanna oinigh gach bliain chun aitheantas a thabhairt do dhaoine a dhéanann obair eisceachtúil i réimsí éagsúla.

13 Jun 2025

Awards and Funding|Community

Irish language champion Linda Ervine receives Trinity honorary degree

Dermot Smurfit, renowned osteoporosis expert Moira O’Brien, and Sir Donnell Deeny also all received Trinity’s highest honour from Chancellor Dr Mary McAleese at a ceremony conducted in Latin in the historic Public Theatre.

13 Jun 2025

Awards and Funding|Business|Community|Society

Trinity PhD candidate wins 2025 EU 3-Minute Thesis competition

With her presentation, called "Triggering Healing: Materials that outsmart Brain Cancer", Almudena had emerged victorious from the final of Trinity's internal 3MT competition, which took place in March.

12 Jun 2025

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Students

Eavan Boland Award celebrates creativity, connection & cross-border exchange in poetry

The award is open to submissions from early-career poets based in the UK and mid-career poets based in Ireland.

6 Jun 2025

Awards and Funding|Culture|Research

Pioneering Sea-Scan project aims to detect and classify “dark vessels” in Irish waters

Researchers from Trinity are developing a system that uses undersea telecommunications cables for advanced maritime surveillance, with the aim of enhancing Ireland’s ability to detect and classify vessels operating without active transponders.

30 May 2025

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

Trinity posts strong surplus for FY 23/24 but warns of challenging landscape

Dr Linda Doyle, Provost of Trinity College Dublin, said: “I am proud of the university’s solid financial performance reflected in the 2023/2024 statement and I want to thank our finance team for their strong stewardship and, indeed, the wider College community.

28 May 2025

Awards and Funding|Business|Research

Trinity trio elected Members of the Royal Irish Academy

Profs. Orla Sheils, Jane Farrar and Holger Claussen have been elected as new Members of the Royal Irish Academy for their exceptional contribution to the sciences.

26 May 2025

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science

Geography PhD candidate wins 2025 Mary Mulvihill Award

Kevin O’Leary, a second-year PhD candidate in Geography in the School of Natural Sciences, is the co-winner of the 2025 Mary Mulvihill Award – a science media competition that commemorates the legacy of science journalist and author Mary Mulvihill (1959–2015).

23 May 2025

Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Students

Professors Jennifer McElwain and Jonathan Coleman elected Fellows of the Royal Society

Prof. McElwain’s research on fossil plants has shaped our understanding of how the atmosphere has changed over millions of years, while Prof. Coleman developed a transformative technique for producing 2D nanomaterials like graphene from layered solids such as graphite.

20 May 2025

Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Science

Trinity Long Room Hub announces O’Mahony Music Research Fellowship

The new fellowship in music is dedicated to music and music-related research and will be awarded annually.

16 May 2025

Awards and Funding|Research

Gustav Parker Hibbett wins 2025 Pollard International Poetry Prize

Valued at €10,000, the prize is sponsored by the John Pollard Foundation and administered by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in the School of English at Trinity.

8 May 2025

Awards and Funding|Culture

Trinity’s Campus Security team declared 2025 Team of the Year

The team was declared Estates/Facilities Team of the Year 2025 at the AUDE Conference Awards Dinner and also won a Bronze award in the EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) category for work on student mental health and wellbeing.

1 May 2025

Awards and Funding|Community|Society

Law School receives gift to bolster Centre for Constitutional Governance

This gift will strengthen TriCON's role as a world-leading centre for constitutional scholarship, bringing together academics, legal practitioners, judges, and other stakeholders to discuss the challenges facing constitutional democracy today.   

1 May 2025

Awards and Funding|Research|Society

New Scholars and Fellows announced at Trinity

Provost Dr Linda Doyle said: "On behalf of the Trinity community, I offer my warmest congratulations to everyone who has been elected to Fellowship and Scholarship.These are fantastic academic achievements and the new Fellows and Scholars deserve to feel very proud today."

28 Apr 2025

Awards and Funding|Community|Students

Dublin Theatre Festival donates letter by Samuel Beckett to Trinity Library

The donation was made by the Dublin Theatre Festival through the support of board member, Tom Clinch and his wife Méav Ní Mhaolchatha.

15 Apr 2025

Awards and Funding|Community|Culture

School of Medicine honours its researchers

Six emerging bright stars in health and clinical research have been honoured in the latest round of the Trinity School of Medicine Research Awards 2025.

10 Apr 2025

Awards and Funding|Health|Research