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Seven Trinity research projects secure HRB investment

The funding comes as the HRB is investing €12 million in 29 investigator-led research projects to support innovative and internationally competitive research across patient-oriented research (POR), population health research (PHR) and health services research (HSR).

23 Sep 2026

Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation|Research

Trinity mathematicians celebrate Venice success of unique film project DAU

Professor Samson Shatashvili, University Chair of Natural Philosophy (1847), and Maria Shtilmark, Research Assistant in Trinity’s School of Mathematics, were both closely involved in the extraordinary long-running film project DAU, whose director Ilya Khrzhanovsky received the Silver Lion for Best Director at this year’s Venice International Film Festival.

22 Sep 2026

Awards and Funding|Culture|Science

Landmark Lancet series brings arts and cultural engagement into mainstream global health

A landmark new collection in leading journal The Lancet is calling for arts and cultural engagement to become an integral part of how health is understood, promoted and delivered worldwide.

22 Sep 2026

Arts|Culture|Health|Research

Bumblebee DNA extracted from museum specimens points to severe genetic declines over time

DNA extracted from over 100 specimens in five museums, including the Natural History Museum, London, was used to study the history of the moss carder bumblebee, which is threatened with extinction in the UK.

18 Sep 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

The EU Kids Act could actually work, says Trinity expert

"We need a whole systems, integrated approach and that involves absolutely the big tech companies but it involves the children, parents, and caregivers and teachers as well."

17 Sep 2026

EU Presidency

Minister of State for Nature, Heritage and Biodiversity, Christopher O’Sullivan, reopens Trinity College Dublin Herbarium

Trinity’s Herbarium contains up to half a million preserved plant specimens, representing three centuries of Irish botanical research. Its transformation was supported through a €1.5 million investment from the National Parks and Wildlife Service of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

17 Sep 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Three Trinity researchers receive funding from HRCI-HRB scheme

Mark Cunningham, Martin Barr and Michelle Spirtos received Health Research Board funding in collaboration with Epilepsy Ireland, Breakthrough Cancer Research and Muscular Dystrophy Ireland.

16 Sep 2026

Awards and Funding|Health

Scientists discover how to decode weather on faraway, deep-space worlds

Scientists from Trinity have developed a powerful way to unravel the changing weather patterns on distant worlds.

15 Sep 2026

Research|Science

Eavan Boland plaque installed on Trinity's Library

Eavan Boland was one of the foremost women in Irish literature, publishing many collections of poetry, a memoir Object Lessons (1995), as well as teaching and lecturing in Ireland and in the US.

15 Sep 2026

Arts|Community

Electric dreams, libraries for democracy, & accidental apologies — Arts and Humanities Research Festival returns for 4th year

The annual Arts and Humanities Research Festival returns from 18-28 September with a programme of free talks, panel discussions, and more.

15 Sep 2026

Arts|Community|Culture|Research