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Trinity study confirms accuracy concerns on contact tracing apps

It's likely to be challenging to use Bluetooth to reliably detect when people using contact tracing apps are within 2 metres of one another, a new Trinity measurement study has found.

7 May 2020

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AMBER to educate and entertain with new digital experience for kids at home

Through fun educational videos children from the ages of 10 to 12 can learn about science at home during the current lockdown.

7 May 2020

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Defining the course of the COVID-19 disease in the immunosuppressed patient

Could people receiving immunosuppressive therapies in fact be protected from the disease?

7 May 2020

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Is the ‘new abnormal’ troublesome for our voices?

The study looks at our new ways of working during the COVID-19 pandemic.

6 May 2020

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Professor Eve Patten announced as new director of Trinity Long Room Hub

A Professor in modern literature and culture, Professor Patten is also a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. She has served as Head of School, Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre and Co-ordinator of the MPhil in Irish Writing.

1 May 2020

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Treating COVID-19 with hydroxychloroquinine: can you teach an old drug new tricks?

Assistant professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at Trinity, Niamh O'Boyle, with an important piece underlining why nobody should self-medicate when fighting COVID-19.

1 May 2020

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Disentangling the psychological, behavioural, media and governmental responses to COVID-19 via a cross-border analysis

The research project is one of six Trinity projects awarded funding through the recent HRB/IRC 'Covid-19 Rapid Response Call'

30 Apr 2020

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Democracy in an age of pandemics

The Trinity Long Room Hub’s latest online-only Behind the Headlines discussion tackled the topic of democracy and pandemics, with an international panel of speakers.

29 Apr 2020

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Six innovative Trinity research projects to wage war on COVID-19

The research projects have been funded by the government's Covid-19 Rapid Response Call to tackle the nationwide pandemic.

29 Apr 2020

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ADAPT and OSi enable open data access for COVID-19 app developers and researchers

Open access to the COVID-19 Health surveillance monitor via the Geohive’s Dataportal and the government’s Open Data portal will be a major help to researchers and app developers.

28 Apr 2020

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