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Doris Alexander receives EARMA Lifetime Achievement Award

Doris Alexander, Associate Director of European Engagement and Co-Director of CHARM-EU, has been awarded the European Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA) Lifetime Achievement Award 2025.

22 May 2025

Community|Society

Trust in scientists in Ireland lower in younger generation

Trust in scientists in Ireland is ahead of global averages, but lower among younger people, according to new research from the School of Education.

22 May 2025

Research|Science|Society

In a world dominated by loud, divisive politics, the cardinals found an antidote in Pope Leo XIV

Leo XIV was a choice few saw coming, and is a figure of humility, steadiness and introspective strength, writes Bronagh Ann McShane in an opinion article first published by The Irish Times.

12 May 2025

Research|Society

Trinity Long Room Hub’s ‘Behind the Headlines’ series turns 10

10 years of public engagement on the pressing issues of our time will be celebrated this week by Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.

12 May 2025

Culture|Research|Society

Trinity projects awarded Research Ireland ‘New Foundations’ funding

Seven Trinity research projects have received funding from Research Ireland under its New Foundations programme. 

8 May 2025

Research|Society

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

Pope Francis promoted women to unprecedented heights of power in the church

Dr Bronagh Ann McShane, Research Fellow on the VOICES project in Trinity's School of Histories and Humanities, with a piece first published by The Conversation in the wake of Pope Francis' death.

22 Apr 2025

Society

A day of curiosity and possibility: future doctors step into 'Mini Med Day'

The Trinity Access Programmes (TAP) Primary School Med Day is designed to spark curiosity and plant the seeds for future careers in medicine and healthcare.

16 Apr 2025

Community|Health|Science|Society

Viewing art can boost wellbeing by giving meaning to life

The simple act of looking at a piece of visual art can boost your wellbeing, a new research study from the School of Psychology has found, and this benefit can be gained in a hospital setting as well as an art gallery.

16 Apr 2025

Research|Society