In Focus

Michael Kerrigan on the Next Steps for Student Politics
USI Congress will vote tomorrow on the union's next President. The sole candidate, Michael Kerrigan, discusses fees, funding and grassroots campaigns.

Dispelling the Myth of Children’s Literature at Trinity
Professor Peter Hunt's work sets the precedent for children's literature as a serious subject and throws light on an underappreciated area of literature.

Bringing Trinity’s Historic Campus into the Future
Paul Roberts of Turnberry Consulting is the man responsible for developing a strategy to redevelop and maintain Ireland's most famous university campus.

Finding the Common Cause Between Students and Workers
With Queen's students creating a historic agreement with staff unions and strike action planned in Trinity, what common cause can students and their staff counterparts find?

Answering the Fundamental Question of How We Store Memories
After moving from MIT to Trinity, Dr Tomas Ryan discusses his research and the difficulties faced in setting up a new lab in today’s turbulent political and scientific environment.

Challenging the Common Conception of Sex Work
Trinity and NUIG lecturers, Gillian Wylie and Eilis Ward, on fighting the perception of sex workers as exploited women.

Stronger Together: The Organisation Linking Together Trinity’s Female Graduates
From networking to organising conferences, the Trinity Women Graduates Organisation is supporting female students once they leave college.

Trinity’s Newest US Politics Lecturer on Trump, Fake News and the Rise of Populism
Dr Emanuel Coman discusses the future of the Trump administration, the real impact of fake news and whether the upward trend of populism will continue.

A Glimpse into Scientific Research and Becoming a Principal Investigator
While science careers can be considered quite linear, there are several new and exciting routes that graduates can take to get into their chosen career paths.

From Biden to Tutu, The Man Responsible for Greeting Trinity’s Most Illustrious Guests
Central to many of Trinity's historic ceremonies, Joseph Mockler has greeted some of Trinity's most famous guests as well as bidding farewell to decades worth of graduates.