Academic and Postgraduate Research Fellowships
Congratulations to the following academics and postgraduate students who have been awarded a TRiSS Research Fellowship for 2026/27. The Research Fellowships aim to support academic and postgraduate research projects from within and across TRiSS member schools.
Do check in regularly for updates on their research projects.
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| Donatella Camedda | School of Education | Inclusive Practice and Teacher Attitudes: Foundational Evidence for Future Research | |
| Eike Buabang | School of Psychology | Towards a unified framework for measuring habit formation | |
| Ilyung Cheong | Trinity Business School | What Work Remains Human? Perceived Ontological Value in the Age of AI | |
| Jeffrey Ziegler | Department of Political Science | The Impact of Catholic Church Scandals on Political and Religious Confidence | |
| Julie Byrne | School of Social Work Social Policy | Religious Infrastructures and Political Integration of Muslim Immigrants: Evidence from London | |
| Larissa Meier | Department of Sociology | ||
| Sorcha O'Keeffe | School of Social Work Social Policy | Bereaved caregiver perspectives of neuro-onocology multidisciplinary care in Ireland | |
| Susan Flynn | School of Social Work Social Policy | Disability in the Age of the Internet: Online Risks and Opportunities for Disabled Children | |
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| Aurora Esposito | Departent of Economics | Why does automation increase employment in developing countries? Evidence from South Africa | |
| Gebreyyohannes Gebrewahid | Trinity Business School | Firm-Level Internationalization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Foreign Direct Investment of Indigenous Multinational Enterprises in the East African Community | |
| Lorenzo Cavagliá | Department of Economics | Gone With The Wind? Slaveholding and Immigrant Integration after Emancipation | |
| Michaela Nudo | School of Social Work Social Policy | Irish Traveller Women's Reproductive Citizenship: An Exploratory Study of Knowledge and Experiences | |
| Savanna Daquila | School of Psychology | 'Role Complexity in Pediatric Chronic Illness: a Qualitative Study of Parental Multirole Experiences' | |
| Sofia Jesus | Department of Political Science | ||
| Valeriia Babaian | Department of Political Science | Bringing culture back in: Why some legacies outlive others? | |
| Xiao Huang | School of Education | Supporting Data Collection for Mandarin Assessment Research in Irish Higher Education | |
Below are last year's Fellowship recipients, click on the underlined names to read how their TRiSS Fellowships have helped their research.
2025/26 TRiSS Academic and Postgraduate Research Fellowship Awardees
| Academic | |||
| Brian Barry | School of Law | Measuring trust and procedural justice of AI for judicial decision-making | |
| Carlo Aldrovandi | School of Religion, Theology and Peace Studies | Transforming the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif Dispute in the post-October 7 Phase | |
| Christian Maruthiah | Department of Economics (CEPH) | Filling the Indian Schedules: New Historical Data on Native Americans | |
| Davide Romelli | Department of Economics | The Evolution of Central Bank Independence and Its Fiscal Consequences: A Legal and AI-Based Perspective | |
| Gizem Arikan | Department of Political Science | Religious Infrastructures and Political Integration of Muslim Immigrants: Evidence from London | |
| Kasia Wodniak | School of Social Work Social Policy | Cooperative housing in Ireland - the potential of deliberative polling | |
| Raj Chari | Department of Political Science | Interest Group Influence on Criminal Sentencing Policy in the US, Canada, and Ireland | |
| Rizwan Asghar | Department of Political Science | The Cost of Militias: Weakening Civilian Control in Post-Conflict Governance | |
| Susan Flynn | School of Social Work Social Policy | Social work, disability and environmental justice: An exposition through conventions of critical disability studies | |
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| Ahmed Ellaboudy | School of Law | The Invisible Triad: Constitutionalism, Preventive Justice, and Property Rights in Legal Countering Terrorism | |
| Aishwarya Deshpande | Department of Economics | Understanding biased human capital investment decisions in low-income settings: theory and evidence from urban India | |
| Ana Jesus | Department of Political Science | Understanding Welfare Opposition among Low-income Earners: The Role of Positive Distinctiveness | |
| Emily Cunniffe | School of Law | Migrant workers in the just transition | |
| Jennifer O'Donoghue | School of Psychology | Disentangling the adult diagnosis of Autism and behavioural phenotype in assigned female at birth individuals | |
| Lily Rice | Department of Political Science | Introducing the Stringency of Sentencing Policy (SSP) Index: How and Why does Sentencing Policy Strictness Vary in Ireland and the US? | |
| Maicol Cortes | School of Religion, Theology and Peace Studies | The Qumran War Scroll and John's Apocalypse: A Social and Cultural Analysis of Shared Traditions | |
| Michael McRae | Department of Economics | Black by Popular Demand: Media, Competition and the Evolution of a Social Norm | |
Below are last year's Fellowship recipients, click on their names to read how their TRiSS Fellowships have helped their research.
2024/25 TRiSS Academic and Postgraduate Research Fellowship Awardees
| Academic | |||
| Alexander Held | Political Science | Registration Rules, Eligibility Uncertainty, and Minority Youth Voter Mobilization | |
| Christiane Ahlborn | Law | Global Corporations in the International Legal Order | |
| Julia Zimmerman | Economics (CEPH) | Roots of Revolution | |
| Leigh-Ann Sweeny | Social Work Social Policy | FOST-WELL: A Biographic Narrative Study of Foster Carers' Wellbeing, Experiences of Stressors and Social Supports during Placement Breakdown in Ireland | |
| Paula Maycock | Social Work Social Policy | The Complex Recovery Experiences of Homeless Service Users with Substance Use Disorder: A Public Engagement and Dissemination Event | |
| Richard Franke | Economics (CEPH) | Wrecking their hopes? – The Effect of Travel Risk Assessment on Migration Decisions | |
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| Alexus McNally | Law | Fair Trial Rights for Children in Conflict with the Law | |
| Bruno Spadi | Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences | Clitic distribution and verb movement in the languages of Sicily | |
| Gabriel Opare | Sociology | Trinity Black History Month Library Exhibition 2024 | |
| Irene Barbotti | Religion, Theology and Peace Studies | Exploring Beatitudes and Woes in the Synoptic Tradition. The Hypothesis of an Apocalyptic Q-Catalogue of Opposite Sayings | |
| Kelly Donegan | Psychology | Characterising distinct psychiatric correlates of habit expression | |
| Ruben Ruf | Business | The impact of foreign stock markets on mental health | |
| Tooba Nadeem Akhtar | Psychology | A mental health, development and psychosocial support intervention for children in natural disaster-affected areas, with a focus on Pakistan's flood-affected areas. | |
2023/24 TRiSS Academic and Postgraduate Research Fellowship Awardees
Academic
| Eman Abboud | Political Science | Decolonizing Data: mapping pre-colonial patterns of ethnopolitical exclusion in sub-Saharan Africa |
| Donatella Camedda | Education | Breaking Barriers: A Photovoice Project on the Experiences of College Students with Intellectual Disabilities |
| Bronagh Catibusic | Linguistics, Speech and Communication Sciences | Nurturing networks through the Trinity English Conversation Classes for refugees |
| Catherine Elliot O'Dare | Social Work Social Policy | Ageism and intergenerational relations in the workplace in Sweden and Ireland – a scoping review of extant literature and trade union policy |
| Susan Flynn | Social Work Social Policy | Coping with complex intersections of child protection risk, the internet and disability: Towards informing and understanding professional responses |
| Elizabeth Nixon | Psychology | Parents' mental state talk and associations with children's development |
Alejandra Ramos & Selim Guelsci |
Economics | Telenovelas with LGBTQ+ characters in Latin-America: which type of representation matter? |
Postgraduate
| Simone Arrigoni | Economics | Who gets the flow? Financial Globalisation and Wealth Inequality |
| Vitalis Bengano | Social Work Social Policy | An exploration of the built environment in/accessibility among disabled students in higher education in Zimbabwe: A New Materialist Perspective. |
| Enrico Cavalloti | Economics | A Criminal Blog-buster: Blogging, Media Coverage and Cartel Tactics in Mexico |
| Lucas da Silva | Political Science | Media Matters: Depictions of Party Positions and Voting Behaviour among Cross-Pressured Voters |
| Salam Jabbour | Psychology | Developing a Community-Level Mental Health Program for Adolescents or Young Adults in Lebanon |
| Michael McRae | Economics | Mass media effect on gender norm perceptions |
| Marina Schenkel | Political Science | Effects of populist rhetoric related to health crises on political preferences |
2022/23 TRiSS Academic and Postgraduate Research Fellowship Awardees
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| Davide Romelli | Economics | Beyond the central bank independence veil: new evidence | |
| Deidre Ahern | Law | The Changing Face of Directors’ Duties in the EU: Making Companies Responsible for Sustainability and Human Rights across Global Supply Chains | |
| Jeffrey Ziegler | Political Science | Computational Tools for Survey Experiments in the Social Sciences | |
| Joseph Roche | Education | Establishing a Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Centre at Trinity College Dublin | |
| Lorraine Swords | Psychology | ADAPT: ADolescents’ Adjustment to Pandemic-related resTrictions. | |
| Susan Flynn | Social Work Social Policy | Virtual Harm: The Internet and Child Protection Risks Associated with Disability | |
| Yunfan Lai | Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences | A glimpse at the world of the Gyalrongs: languages and beyond | |
| Zohar Hadromi-Allouche | Religion | "Demons Good and Bad": An Interdisciplinary Perspective | |
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| Azza Warraitch | Psychology | Development of evidence-based guidelines on youth involvement in health research | |
| Julia Hirschwald | Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences | Establishing a Core Outcome Set for Dysphagia Interventions in Parkinson’s disease: the COS-DIP study | |
| Julia Leesch | Sociology | ’Who’ marries ‘whom’ in Ireland? The role of educational expansion for changing patterns of educational assortative mating | |
| Louisa Roos | Economics | The gender impacts of the Swiss franc shock | |
| Madhav Bhargav | Psychology | Towards a Better Understanding of College Students’ Adverse Childhood Experiences and Later Mental Health | |
| Marketa Odlova | Political Science | Minorities and the Military: The Effects of Conscription on Political Engagement | |
| Michael Buckley | Education | School governance in the Republic of Ireland: A mixed-methods case study of primary schooling | |
| Neha Tetali | Religion | Gendering Foreign Policy: A Feminist Postcolonial engagement with the UN WPS Agenda | |
| Olivia McEvoy | Sociology | Exploring the “causes of causes” of inequalities: how do health behaviours become socially patterned? | |