Articles
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3Set delivers Ireland’s first student mental health and suicide prevention framework
3Set is a collaborative project led by Trinity and supported by UCD and AIT. The launch of the national framework coincides with World Mental Health Day.
10 Oct 2020
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Like Covid 19, child domestic abuse respects no boundaries
This opinion piece from Dr Stephanie Holt, Associate Professor and Head of School and Dr Ruth Elliffe, Teaching Fellow, School of Social Work & Social Policy, was published in the Irish Examiner
2 Jun 2020
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Global climate change will affect fish sizes and ocean food webs
This research has obvious implications for fisheries and their management, but the crucial message is that warming seas may have significant, unanticipated impacts on entire food webs.
7 Apr 2020
Research
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COVID-19 exposes major flaw in global supply chains
In this article from Openaccessgovernment.org, Dr Tanusree Jain and Dr Louis Brennan, Trinity Business School, propose that we must fix vulnerabilities of global supply chains exposed by COVID-19
19 Jun 2020
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Keeping it cool – Trinity team greatly enhancing viability of solar panels
The technology in development will result in an immediate 10% increase in energy output and slow the solar panel degradation so that its lifetime could double from 20 to 40 years.
28 May 2020
Research
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10 nominations for the University of Dublin Seanad elections 2020
Ballot papers will be issued by registered post to electors registered on the 2019 Electoral Register in the constituency on Friday 28th February. The poll will close on Tuesday 31st March.
14 Feb 2020
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Research details impact of COVID-19 on persons ageing with an intellectual disability
The report was launched to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities and calls for further COVID-19 restrictions for people with ID to be data-driven.
3 Dec 2020
Research
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Trinity research finds open fires could pose substantial hazard to older people’s health
Collaborative research from scientists at the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Lancaster in the UK, examines the risk factors associated with open fire use, revealing a variety of potentially negative consequences for health.
30 Oct 2020
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Response to Covid-19 shows striking similarities with pandemics past
Be it quarantine or social distancing, responses to the current Covid-19 pandemic have not changed much since the pandemics of the past, speakers noted in the Behind the Headlines discussion Plagues and Pandemics which was livestreamed to over 7000 viewers on Thursday evening, March 26th 2020.
27 Mar 2020
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New study reveals why flu can be devastating for pregnant women
The pre-clinical study has overturned current scientific thinking on the reasons why flu infections affect pregnant women and their babies so severely, suggesting the virus does not stay in the lungs but spreads throughout the mother’s body.
22 Sep 2020
Research