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 MollyContinue reading “[Leadership-in-Action Project] Developing a Bio-Inspired Soft Toy for Hospitalised Children and a Trinity Robotics Team (Dylan Cuskelly)”
Category Archives: Laidlaw Scholars at Trinity
[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 theContinue reading “[Leadership-in-Action Project] Working with the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (Shane Coleman Macken)”
[Leadership-in-Action Project] Out of my comfort zone, here’s what I learned (Claire Morgan Busher)
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 aContinue reading “[Leadership-in-Action Project] Out of my comfort zone, here’s what I learned (Claire Morgan Busher)”
[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 theContinue reading “[Leadership-in-Action Project] Investigating Nature-Based Solutions (Bev Genockey)”
[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 theContinue reading “[Leadership-in-Action Project] Child Benefit Fiji (Ben McConkey)”
[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 learningContinue reading “[Leadership-in-Action Project] Searching for Distant Supernovae (Ana Sainz de Murieta)”
[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 endeavouredContinue reading “[Research Project] Class Conflict in Literature: The Role of University Settings in Understanding Social Dynamics (Mairead Maguire)”
[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 ‘EuropeanContinue reading “[Research Project] How did Covid-19 affect asylum seeking? (Beatrice Pistola)”
[Research Project] Why Exotic Matter Really Matters? (Sarah Tobin McGovern)
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 aContinue reading “[Research Project] Why Exotic Matter Really Matters? (Sarah Tobin McGovern)”
[Leadership-in-Action Project] The Development of Drug Delivery Systems to Treat Pulmonary Disease States Associated with Excess Mucus (Lucija Sili)
Article by Lucija Sili (Laidlaw Scholar 2020, Pharmacy) In Summer 2 of the Laidlaw Programme I have the opportunity to expand upon my pharmaceutical research from the previous Summer as part of the ‘In-field application of research’ component of the Leadership-in-Action (LIA). My objective this summer was to lead a more challenging project which wouldContinue reading “[Leadership-in-Action Project] The Development of Drug Delivery Systems to Treat Pulmonary Disease States Associated with Excess Mucus (Lucija Sili)”
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