Our Research

The Centre's research spans six interconnected themes. Many of our projects sit across more than one of these themes.

• Science communication: Researching and practising open conversations about science in society.
• Citizen and community science: Knowledge made together, in partnership with diverse publics.
• Teaching and learning science: Science learning in higher education, schools, and informal settings, including initial teacher education and lifelong learning.
• Art-science research and practice. Creative, transdisciplinary inquiry that integrates the arts and sciences. Research into the processes of art-science and other transdisciplinary collaborations, and the public and policy engagement with their outputs.
• Equity and policy. Whose knowledge counts in decision-making, and how science can be more accountable to the communities it affects.
• Engaged research and public engagement across multiple domains of science including:
  • Climate, nature, sustainability, biodiversity and related planetary crises
  • AI and emerging technologies
  • Quantum science and technology
  • Astronomy, astrophysics, and space science
  • Health and life sciences
  • Chemical and physical sciences

Current and Past Projects:

Selected projects A snapshot of work led by Trinity Science & Society Research Centre members. Project pages are being added as the Centre's site develops. 

• • COALESCE
  • LEVERS
  • Critical ChangeLab
  • European Citizen Science (ECS)
  • Academy of the Near Future
  • Treoraigh do Thodhchaí
  • GlobalSCAPE
  • Soil Your Scarf
  • Ar Scáth a Chéile
  • sMILE

Members

The Centre brings together more than 100 affiliated members from across all three Trinity faculties. A full directory will be available shortly. For enquiries in the meantime, please contact scienceandsociety@tcd.ie.