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How commercial actors influence and impact health and society

Trinity’s Dr Mélissa Mialon is co-author on two publications within the new Lancet Series that explores how companies shape our physical and social environments and highlights the need for clear frameworks to examine and differentiate among commercial entities, to understand how they help or hinder public health.

6 Apr 2023

Health|Research|Society

Rare 14-ft smalltooth sand tiger shark washes up on Wexford shore

A huge 14ft smalltooth sand tiger shark washed up at Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford, this weekend. Scientists believe it to be the first official record of the species being found in Ireland’s waters.

4 Apr 2023

Environment|Research|Science

Books written and illustrated by Dublin schoolchildren join Book of Kells Exhibition

An exhibition of 61 handmade books written and illustrated by Dublin primary school students was unveiled in the Long Room. The exhibition marks the culmination of the Trinity Access Programmes' Bookmarks initiative.

30 Mar 2023

Arts|Community|Society

Jane Ohlmeyer wins prestigious European Research Council Advanced Grant

Professor Ohlmeyer's €2.5 million VOICES project will recover the lived experiences of women in early modern Ireland

30 Mar 2023

Awards and Funding|Culture|Research|Society

Researchers tackle parasitic worms that infect millions worldwide

A new study published in the journal Immunity, by researchers at Trinity College and the University of Manchester has cast new light on how our immune system deals with parasitic worm infection.

29 Mar 2023

Health|Research|Society

Jo-Hanna Ivers to advise Citizen’s Assembly on Drugs Use

Jo-Hanna Ivers, Associate Professor in Addiction and Associate Dean of Civic Engagement & Social Innovation at Trinity College has been appointed a member of the Advisory Support Group to the Citizens Assembly on Drugs Use.

28 Mar 2023

Health|Society

Prison oversight project wins ERC Proof of Concept grant

Dr Rogan, School of Law, has won a highly competitive European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept grant to continue her work on human rights and prison oversight.

27 Mar 2023

Awards and Funding|Research|Society

New nurse-driven Irish TB smartphone study published on World TB Day

The study from the HIHI Trinity Hub at St James’s Hospital shows remarkable health system savings, increases treatment access and supports self-management in the community.

24 Mar 2023

Health|Innovation|Research

Speeding up labour: what do women think?

Researchers from the School of Nursing and Midwifery say that clinical guidelines and hospital policies for speeding up labour must change to be informed by research that includes women’s views and experiences, Their research is published in the journal ‘Midwifery’.

22 Mar 2023

Health|Research

Dr Susan Murphy wins highly prestigious ERC Starting Grant award

The funding of €1.5 million will help Trinity team transform the field of international development governance theory and practice.

21 Mar 2023

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

Attitudes to conscientious objection in abortion services investigated by Trinity researchers

The survey forms part of Trinity’s CORALE Study, which brings together researchers from the School of Nursing and Midwifery, the School of Law and the School of School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies.

21 Mar 2023

Health|Research|Society

Green Week kicks off with launch and new sustainability awards

The launch of Trinity’s 21st annual Green Week: ‘Healthy Planet, Healthy People’ took place Monday morning with a 21st birthday theme at Tangent, Trinity’s Ideas Workspace. We heard from Former President and Adjunct Professor of Climate Justice Mary Robinson, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Caroline Conroy, Provost Linda Doyle, Vice President for Biodiversity and Climate Action Jane Stout and Students’ Union Environmental Officer Erin O’Dowd.

21 Mar 2023

Sustainability

Indigenous Ashaninka DNA helps geneticists write new chapters of pre-colonial history in South America

Geneticists have written new chapters in the reconstruction of pre-colonial Americas history after using DNA from the indigenous Ashaninka people from Amazonian Peru.

16 Mar 2023

Research|Science

Rock stars solve long-standing diamond conundrum

Three researchers from Queensland University of Technology and Trinity College Dublin have solved a long-held geological conundrum about how diamonds formed in the deep roots of the earth’s ancient continents.

16 Mar 2023

Research|Science

Trinity researchers compete in Sustainable Development Goals Challenge

The researchers, who aim to recycle heat from meat production in Zambia, have secured funding as one of six teams that will compete to chase a first prize of €1 million in the Sustainable Development Goals Challenge (SDG).

10 Mar 2023

Awards and Funding|Environment|Innovation|Research|Sustainability

Trinity partners with World Food Programme on food insecurity and situations of risk

People with disabilities are disproportionately affected by acute food insecurity, according to a new study by researchers from Trinity’s Department of Clinical Speech and Language Studies.

9 Mar 2023

Community|Research|Society

16% of students give CAO first preference to Trinity in 2023

Trinity Vice-Provost Orla Sheils said: “We are delighted to see so many students selecting Trinity as first preference for their college experience. We have worked hard to ensure our students’ experience of college life is both challenging and fulfilling, notwithstanding the disturbances of recent years."

9 Mar 2023

Profs Jane Ohlmeyer and Jonathan N. Coleman receive RIA Gold Medals

The Trinity Professors were presented with Royal Irish Academy Gold Medals by Senator Malcolm Byrne at a ceremony in the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin.

8 Mar 2023

Awards and Funding|Research

Fresh understanding of ageing in the brain offers hope for treating neurological diseases

Scientists from the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (TBSI) have shed new light on ageing processes in the brain. By linking the increased presence of specialised immune cells to conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury for the first time, they have unearthed a possible new target for therapies aimed at treating age-related neurological diseases.

8 Mar 2023

Health|Research|Science

Trinity and Cambridge scientists unearth potential new therapeutic target for inflammatory diseases

Scientists working in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology in the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute at Trinity have made an important breakthrough in understanding what goes wrong in our bodies during the progression of inflammatory diseases and – in doing so – unearthed a potential new therapeutic target.

8 Mar 2023

Health|Research|Science

Trinity supports Harvard University in global tuberculosis research consortium

Trinity researchers provide unique human model to help unpick the mechanism of human lung immune corruption by the tuberculosis bacterium.

8 Mar 2023

Health|Research

Trinity College Dublin named EU Gender Equality Champion

Trinity Provost Dr Linda Doyle said: “I am very proud that Trinity has won this award. Gender equality is a cornerstone of the deep-rooted fairness that we want Trinity to always embody. We have more to do and this wonderful award reminds us that we are on the right track."

8 Mar 2023

Awards and Funding|Community|Culture|Society

Minister Malcolm Noonan announces €1.5 million in funding to transform Trinity’s herbarium

The funding will enable Trinity to transform, digitise and safeguard its herbarium by providing physical infrastructure and enable the digitisation of 400,000 specimens, some of which are centuries old – making them easily accessible to the international research community as well as the public.

8 Mar 2023

Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Science

Creativity and brain science collide at Creative Brain Week 2023

The exciting week-long event puts Ireland on the world stage, hosting global experts to discuss creativity's impact on our health and well-being through the themes of conflict, joy and imagination.

6 Mar 2023

Three Trinity graduates feature in An Post stamps celebrating outstanding women

The stamps mark the outstanding contribution of Women in Public Life and feature Mary Robinson, Susan Denham, Jennie Wyse Power and Thekla Beere.

6 Mar 2023

Culture|Society

Deep roots of rebellion tracked from the Great Irish Famine to the Irish Revolutionary period

Irish rebels who revolted against British rule were more likely to come from families and locations most affected by the Great Irish Famine, according to new research from economic historians.

2 Mar 2023

Culture|Research|Society

Bees’ pesticide risk is species and landscape-dependent

In a new study, ecologists have shown that bees' pesticide exposure depends upon their interaction with the environment, meaning different species face different risks in any given environment.

2 Mar 2023

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

677 students receive Trinity Entrance Exhibition Awards

The students come from 460 different schools and from 31 counties on the island of Ireland as well as 31 countries overseas.

2 Mar 2023

Awards and Funding|Students

Scientists synthesise cerium mineral which holds promise for biomedical research

Trinity geoscientists have developed a cheap and environmentally friendly method for the synthesis of the rare earth mineral which holds promise for the treatment of diseases associated with inflammation, including cancer.

1 Mar 2023

Environment|Health|Research|Science

Study explores conversion therapy practices in Ireland

Research findings from the School of Nursing and Midwifery indicate that conversion therapy practices take place in Ireland

24 Feb 2023

Health|Research|Society