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Time to reboot how we think about human and machine interactions

We need a radical overhaul of our understanding of human and machine interactions to combat new and urgent social challenges, according to a new study by an international team of researchers, including a researcher from the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy.

24 Oct 2024

Research|Science|Society

Businesses to fund wildlife ponds, hedgerows and woodlands as part of ReFarm project

Launched by Pippa Hackett, Minister of State for Land Use and Biodiversity, the ReFarm project is a collaboration between Trinity, Burrenbeo Trust and local and international businesses.

22 Oct 2024

Business|Society|Sustainability

Drowning in disinformation? Can we train social media to meet our needs?

As an election looms, David Landy writes that when it comes to social media, people aren’t “sociological dopes”, blindly reacting to online prompts and unable to understand and change their own behaviour.

18 Oct 2024

Research|Society

New patient safety research network welcomes 100 delegates to Trinity

A new national patient safety research network, led by the School of Psychology, welcomed over 100 patient partners, academics and healthcare professionals to Trinity for the EQUIPS network's first in-person event.

17 Oct 2024

Research|Science|Society

Citizen science study sheds fresh light on dementia risk factors and cognition

How a person rates their own memory is more strongly associated with dementia risk factors than their performance in standard cognitive tests, according to new research from the School of Psychology.

9 Oct 2024

Research|Science|Society

Trinity renames its main Library after poet Eavan Boland

Eavan Boland was one of the foremost women in Irish literature, publishing many collections of poetry, a memoir Object Lessons (1995), as well as teaching and lecturing in Ireland and in the US.

9 Oct 2024

Arts|Community|Culture|Society|Students

Was the budget designed to help the country’s poorest children or those of the richest?

Sending the same amount cutting inheritance tax as went to permanent payments targeted at the poorest children was an odd choice, writes Barra Roantree, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, in an article first published in The Irish Times.

3 Oct 2024

Research|Society

Trinity welcomes the President of Vietnam

Mr Lâm was greeted at the Old Library of Trinity by Vice Provost Prof. Orla Sheils and by Patrick O’Donovan, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

2 Oct 2024

Community|Society|Students

Democracy at a crossroads – new public lecture series

Global challenges to democracy is the subject of a new public lecture series entitled Democracy at a Crossroads hosted by the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy.

30 Sep 2024

Research|Society

Lower attention ability in adolescence predicts substance use in later life

Lower attention ability in adolescence can predict cigarette and cannabis use in young adulthood, according to new research from the School of Psychology and School of Medicine.

30 Sep 2024

Research|Science|Society