Trinity Highlights from 2023

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.

02 April 2026

Research|Science|Society

'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.

02 April 2026

Business|Research

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.

01 April 2026

Awards and Funding|Sustainability

Trinity team's new chip-scale light technology could power faster AI and data centre communications

Researchers at Trinity have developed a new light-based technology on a tiny chip that could help make the data centres behind cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and global internet services faster and more efficient.

31 March 2026

Innovation|Research|Science|Sustainability

Why rural Ireland holds the key to transport decarbonisation

Recent research conducted through a collaboration between the Schools of Physics and Engineering, and published in the journal Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, explores decarbonisation of transport, and the particular challenges that exist in Ireland due to our population density and geography.

31 March 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Seashell saviours – Trinity team finds discarded oyster shells can clean polluted water by removing "rare earths"

New research from a team at Trinity College Dublin has unearthed a cheap and environmentally friendly new option for removing pollutants from our water. The key? Oyster shells that would ordinarily end up in landfill sites after consumption.

26 March 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Earlier detection, better outcomes: Irish researchers target rising bowel cancer rates with new blood test

Researchers from Trinity, Dublin City University and University College Dublin will use funding of €670,000 from Enterprise Ireland’s Commercialisation Fund to develop a breakthrough blood-based screening test.