A warm welcome to the Trinity Research in Childhood Centre (TRiCC)

This new centre offers Trinity an exciting opportunity, providing a dynamic hub for researchers and students to come together, share ideas, collaborate, build alliances, and foster creativity and innovation. This coming together of different disciplinary lenses will strengthen and contribute to high quality research on childhood across the university and allow for much richer nuanced understanding of issues affecting children in our world today. I am delighted to be a part of TRiCC, and look forward to its continual development into the future.

This is an exciting time in children’s research with new models of child development highlighting the interconnectedness of biological, psychological and social processes. We are beginning to understand better ‘why we are as we are’ together with the foundational influences of childhood experience for our whole life trajectory. At Trinity we are interested in better understanding these processes so as to inform more effective interventions to make the lives of children, and consequently the future adult population, better. It’s a privilege to be involved in this enterprise – working with expert colleagues across College – to create innovative and transformative research.

We are delighted to have the opportunity to work together across the entire university campus. TRiCC connects researchers and students from diverse areas in order to improve the lives of children. Interventions in childhood have a huge impact not just in the early years but through out life. Therefore we can harness the expertise in the university institutes and schools to advocate for children.