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Fresh insights into how Ireland’s system of caring affects older adults
New TILDA research highlights the social, financial, physical and emotional demands family caring places on those caring.
7 Dec 2020
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Research details impact of COVID-19 on persons ageing with an intellectual disability
The report was launched to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities and calls for further COVID-19 restrictions for people with ID to be data-driven.
3 Dec 2020
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Trinity partners with World Food Programme to address disability inclusion in food assistance programming
The research collaboration seeks to develop an evidence base for the inclusion of persons with disabilities in WFP food and nutrition assistance programmes.
3 Dec 2020
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Vitamin D deficiency highly prevalent in the Irish Asian community
The study, published in the journal Nutrients, is the first in Ireland to investigate vitamin D in an ethnic minority community.
1 Dec 2020
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Introducing Palaeontology – new book underlines importance of the fossil record for informing today’s conservation decisions
The book, by Patrick Wyse Jackson, from Trinity’s School of Natural Sciences, provides a timely reminder of how the fossil record can inform critical conservation decisions of the future.
1 Dec 2020
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Interim report released: Unification Referendums on island of Ireland
Referendums on the future of the island of Ireland should only be held with a clear plan for what follows, the interim report from the Working Group on Unification Referendums on the Island of Ireland has found. There were three Trinity members of the Working Group: Oran Doyle, Dr Etain Tannam and Dr David Kenny
26 Nov 2020
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Health expert consortium calls for vitamin D policy in battle against COVID-19
Experts outline compelling evidence for health professionals and policymakers to revise guidance on vitamin D supplementation amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
26 Nov 2020
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Scientists develop new gene therapy for eye disease
The new approach offers promise for one day treating an eye disease that leads to a progressive loss of vision and affects thousands of people across the globe.
26 Nov 2020
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Trinity to commission four new sculptures of women for display in Old Library
The scientist Rosalind Franklin, the folklorist, dramatist and theatre-founder Augusta Gregory, the mathematician Ada Lovelace and the writer and pioneering women’s rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft have been chosen from a list of more than 500 suggestions.
26 Nov 2020
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Increased access to mental health services vital for survivors of sexual violence
The research from Trinity and Maynooth University is the first to study the incidence and effects of sexual violence in Ireland, since the SAVI Report of 2002.
25 Nov 2020
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