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LiA Project – Working with the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (IDGTF)
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…
LiA Project – Out of my comfort zone here’s what I learned
Article by Claire Morgan Busher (Laidlaw Scholar 2020, Ancient History, Archaeology and Latin) This summer, I was forced out of my comfort zone – here’s what I learned…! I have been an outsider in all the countries I have lived; ever the foreigner, the one learning to adapt and assimilate into cultures, rarely having a…
Summer 2 Leadership In Action Reflection – Investigating Nature-Based Solutions
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…
LiA Project Reflection – Child Benefit Fiji
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: Searching for Distant Supernovae
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…
Laidlaw ’22 Cohort LEAD 1 & 2 Review
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 – Class Conflict in Literature: The Role of University Settings in Understanding Social Dynamics
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 – How did Covid-19 affect asylum seeking?
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…
Research – Why Exotic Matter Really Matters?
Article by Sarah Tobin McGovern (Laidlaw Scholar 2022, Theoretical Physics) My research project was titled “Exotic Matter: What can we understand about exotic states of matter and their properties under the strong interaction?” I carried it out under the supervision of Prof Sinéad Ryan with the School of Maths. The project aimed to use a…
Laidlaw Scholars at Trinity 