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[Leadership-in-Action Project] Developing a Bio-Inspired Soft Toy for Hospitalised Children and a Trinity Robotics Team (Dylan Cuskelly)

Article by Dylan Cuskelly (Laidlaw Scholar 2020, Physical Sciences) For my leadership-in-action project this summer I leveraged my familiarity with the engineering design process and the skills I learned during Summer 1 in an infield application of research to develop a version of a bio-inspired soft robotic toy for hospitalised children, previously developed by Molly…

[Leadership-in-Action Project] Working with the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (Shane Coleman Macken)

Article by Shane Coleman Macken (Laidlaw Scholar 2020, English Literature and History) When conducting research within an academic setting, I have always found that research within the Arts and Humanities can often come across as conducted within a vacuum. In my disciplines of English Literature and History, my work is concerned with looking into the…

[Leadership-in-Action Project] Investigating Nature-Based Solutions (Bev Genockey)

Article by Bev Genockey (Laidlaw Scholar 2020, Zoology) My summer two work on my Laidlaw project was both exciting and challenging, and has presented me with great opportunities to engage with individuals and groups relevant to my research interests, as well as reaffirming my desire to extend my work in this research area beyond the…

[Leadership-in-Action Project] Child Benefit Fiji (Ben McConkey)

Article by Ben McConkey (Laidlaw Scholar 2020, PPES) My Summer 2 on the Laidlaw Programme was spent working with ThinkPacific, an NGO set up as a connecting body for a series of charities in Fiji. Typically, scholars would visit Fiji and help local communities on the ground, however this year the experience more too the…

[Leadership-in-Action Project] Searching for Distant Supernovae (Ana Sainz de Murieta)

Article by Ana Sainz de Murieta (Laidlaw Scholar 2020, Theoretical Physics) At the end of last century measurements of distant exploding stars, or supernovae, showed us that the expansion of the Universe is speeding up. This led to the discovery of dark energy. During my first summer of Laidlaw, I worked on a machine learning…

[Leadership Session] LEAD 1 & 2 (2022 Cohort)

Article by Mia Brzakovic (Laidlaw Scholar 2022, Biomedical Engineering) On the 20th and 21st of June, the newly chosen Trinity Laidlaw cohort had a chance to meet each other and enjoy great workshops carefully chosen by the Career Service team. On the first day, we had an opportunity to listen to interesting sessions such as…

[Research Project] Class Conflict in Literature: The Role of University Settings in Understanding Social Dynamics (Mairead Maguire)

Article by Mairead Maguire (Laidlaw Scholar 2021, History and Political Science) The title of my research project is ‘Class Conflict in Literature: The Role of University Settings in Understanding Social Dynamics’. Through my analysis of three fictional texts, as well as my studying of existing research on the realities of class and education, I endeavoured…

[Research Project] How did Covid-19 affect asylum seeking? (Beatrice Pistola)

Article by Beatrice Pistola (Laidlaw Scholar 2022, Middle Eastern, Jewish and Islamic Civilizations) I am a second year student in Trinity College Dublin studying Middle Eastern, Jewish and Islamic Civilisations and I am a member of the 2022 Laidlaw cohort in my university. My research project is about the impact of Covid-19 on the ‘European…