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Centre for Academic Practice awarded National SATLE Impact Award

The award recognises the Centre for Academic Practice’s initiative, ‘Embedding Education for Sustainable Development across the Disciplines at Trinity", which supports the integration of sustainability into teaching, learning and curriculum design across the University.

1 Apr 2026

Awards and Funding|Sustainability

'Age is an advantage': independent contractors aged over 60 earn 72% more than equivalent employees

Independent contractors aged over 60 years earn 72% more than employees in equivalent occupations, according to new research from the Ireland’s Project Economy survey conducted by the Trinity Business School.

2 Apr 2026

Business|Research

Trinity-led project will build a more trustworthy Internet for public knowledge

Researchers from Trinity and the ADAPT Centre are leading a new interdisciplinary research programme to investigate whether public trust in expertise has been weakened by the way institutions have adapted to the internet.

2 Apr 2026

Research|Science|Society

Trinity College Dublin Instagram Competition: Win a T-Ball 2026 Ticket

Terms and conditions for the Trinity College Dublin Instagram competition

2 Apr 2026

Community|Culture|Students

Humans bring gender bias to their interactions with AI – new study

Humans bring gender biases to their interactions with Artificial Intelligence, according to new research from Trinity and Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (LMU) Munich.

20 Nov 2025

Research|Society

CONNECT Centre awards over €500,000 to fund women-led STEAM research projects

Four awardees will now lead innovative projects with goals that range from improving the communications systems used by autonomous vehicles to creating eco-friendly options for powering wearable technologies.

7 Jan 2025

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Sustainability

Societal inequality linked to reduced brain health in ageing and dementia

The study reveals a direct link between structural inequality—such as socioeconomic disparities measured by a country-level index (GINI)—and changes in brain structure and connectivity associated with aging and dementia.

30 Dec 2024

Health|Research|Society

Cookies, identifiers “silently stored” on Android phones by Google apps

A recent measurement study by Prof. Doug Leith, Professor of Computer Systems in Trinity’s School of Computer Science and Statistics, shows that advertising and tracking cookies and other device and user identifiers are sent by Google servers and stored on a handset, even when no Google apps have ever been opened by the user.

25 Feb 2025

Innovation|Research

Lecture series to help public channel their inner philosopher

From the value of truth and war & peace to the role of wonder and the importance of self-care, Trinity’s philosophers are asking the public to explore the relevance of philosophy in today’s world and offer fresh perspectives on some of our most pressing issues over six lectures.

9 Jan 2025

Community|Research

Can native woodland flourish without farmers? They also deserve a just transition

There are ongoing calls and policy targets to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and afforestation is identified as a vital solution to mitigating impacts, but significant challenges remain.

10 Jan 2025

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability