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Critical need for advance care planning in enhancing end-of-life experiences for older adults

New research from TILDA and NICOLA provides a first-of-its kind snapshot of end-of-life experience for older people on the island of Ireland.

19 Dec 2024

Health|Research

Six early career Trinity researchers win Research Ireland Enterprise Partnership funding

This scheme provides funding to help bring together researchers with an enterprise or employer to collaborate on research of mutual interest.

20 Dec 2024

Awards and Funding|Research

UKCRF Poster Prize winning entry from the Wellcome-HRB CRF at St James’s Hospital

The prize is an acknowledgment of the hard work and continuous efforts of the CRF to improve its processes, and validates the dedication that the CRF put into enhancing the quality of their work and patient care.

30 Jul 2024

Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation

Green Week '24 - 'Healthy Planet, Healthy People'

This has been Trinity’s 22nd year marking Green Week. The event started in 2003 to honour the late Professor Simon Perry, who started the College Recycling and Environment Committee, now known as the Green Campus Committee. After his untimely passing in 2002, the Green Campus Committee decided to hold the first Trinity Green Week in his honour, and the College’s Green Week has grown in strength every year since.

19 Mar 2024

Community|Environment|Students|Sustainability

New study advances understanding of brain responses to emotionally-charged scenes

A new study published by Prof Sonia Bishop in Nature Communications advances our understanding of how the brain responds to emotionally charged objects and scenes.

9 Jul 2024

Research|Science

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch: Booker prize-winning novel is a distinctly Irish tale of civic and ideological collapse

Prof. Eve Patten writes for The Conversation about Paul Lynch's book 'Prophet Song' which won the 2023 Booker Prize.

28 Nov 2023

Arts|Culture|Research|Society

What is hope and why do we need it?

Professor Brian Lawlor (Global Brain Health Institute) discusses why hope is not a given, and why we have to work at it, and connect outside of ourselves.

2 Jan 2023

Health|Research

Ready, Set, Go: Have your say on the Provost’s Innovation Challenge 2023

The annual Provost's Innovation Challenge@Tangent is an intensive 3-day hackathon when Trinity students from multiple disciplines gather to brainstorm solutions to some of our biggest social issues.

3 Jan 2023

Environment|Innovation

Study: Voting behaviour and exposure to Russian Twitter campaigns in 2016 US election

An international research study involving researchers in Ireland, Europe and the USA found that that despite Russia’s disinformation operations on social media, there were no measurable changes in attitudes, polarisation, or voting behaviour among those exposed to the foreign influence campaign on Twitter.

10 Jan 2023

Trinity tree of the month- the Common Ash

This January we are featuring one of Ireland’s tallest native tree species, the Common Ash (Fraxinus excelsior, or Fuinseog in Irish). The tree is located in the South Arboretum of Trinity College Botanic Garden beside Trinity Hall in Dartry.

11 Jan 2023

Sustainability