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Farmers are key to restoring native woodlands – here’s what’s holding them back

PhD candidates Laqiqige Zhu, Trinity Business School and Kate Harrington, School of Natural Sciences, explain in this piece for The Conversation why Ireland is struggling to meet its tree-planting targets.

15 Jun 2026

Business|Research|Science

Researchers achieve most precise measurement yet of the force that binds nuclear matter

Trinity's Prof. Stefan Sint, along with collaborators from Germany, Spain and Italy, has published the most precise determination to date of the strong coupling constant. This parameter governs the interactions between quarks and gluons, the fundamental components of nuclear matter.

15 Jun 2026

Research|Science

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney gives inaugural De Chastelain lecture at Trinity

"Trinity is much more than a university,” Prime Minister Carney said: “It is a veritable wellspring for ideas, inventions and enduring moral clarity. Some of the western world’s greatest contributions to science, art and literature have their roots here."

13 Jun 2026

Community|Society

“Brain health, equity, and our shared planet” -- Global Brain Health Institute celebrates a decade of leadership, research and impact

Global leaders, researchers and innovators gathered at Trinity this week to explore how new thinking and emerging research are reshaping our understanding of brain health.

12 Jun 2026

Environment|Health|Research|Society

Sustainable aviation fuel supply remains structurally constrained

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin, with collaborators SMBC and SMBC Aviation Capital, have published a new report outlining the key barriers and actions required to scale SAF production and support aviation’s path to decarbonisation.

11 Jun 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Belfast violence: an uncomfortable reminder of the innocent people ‘burnt out’ during the Troubles

Brendan Ciarán Browne, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies writes for The Conversation about the violent unrest in Belfast this week.

11 Jun 2026

Culture|Research

Trinity to host Rinn Quantum and Rinn Advanced Therapies

Trinity will host two of the seven newly announced, Research Ireland-funded Rinn Centres – Rinn Quantum and Rinn Advanced Therapies – while acting as one of five coordinating institutions in a third (Rinn Artificial Intelligence).

10 Jun 2026

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science

The 100-year life: TILDA marks 20 years of research into ageing

At a public event, leading voices in research, policy and public life reflected on how Ireland is ageing, what TILDA has revealed over two decades, and how this evidence can help shape healthier, longer and more connected futures for generations to come.

9 Jun 2026

Community|Research|Society

Trinity team to repurpose injectable influenza vaccine into nasally delivered option

Researchers from Trinity’s School of Biochemistry and Immunology will lead a project to repurpose an injectable influenza vaccine into one administered nasally.

4 Jun 2026

Health|Research|Science

Life under the shadow of regeneration in Dolphin House flats

Everyday life under the shadow of a major regeneration project is the subject of a new research project undertaken by researchers at the School of Social Work and Social Policy.

2 Jun 2026