Six early career Trinity researchers win Research Ireland Enterprise Partnership funding
Posted on: 20 December 2024
This scheme provides funding to help bring together researchers with an enterprise or employer to collaborate on research of mutual interest.
The projects support research, networking and collaboration enabling researchers to develop new, advanced knowledge and skills, linked with their partners’ requirements.
The Trinity researchers who received funding were:
- Enterprise Partnership Scheme Postdoctoral Scholar: Jamie Rohu, who will work with the National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage, on a project that analyses the socioeconomic and environmental outcomes arising from the Irish state’s managed transition of a dozen peatlands.
- Enterprise Partnership Scheme Postdoctoral Scholar: Deirdre Foley, who will work with the Royal Dublin Society, on a project devoted to exploring the significance of rural women’s participation in commerce.
- Enterprise Partnership Scheme Postdoctoral Scholar: Rachael Scally, who will work with the Royal Dublin Society, on a project that will examine the origins of the society’s various donations, bequests and collections.
- Enterprise Partnership Scheme Postgraduate Scholar: Theo Andrews, who will work with turboTEM Limited, on a project that seeks to improve our microscopy imaging abilities so as to work with fragile specimens and image energy materials, batteries and 2D materials.
- Enterprise Partnership Scheme Postgraduate Scholar: Tayyebeh Babaei, who will work with Chester Beatty, on a project that will examine how Islamic maps influenced the conception of cities, and were used in city planning and architectural preservation.
- Enterprise Partnership Scheme Postgraduate Scholar: Ailish Newton, who will work with Pfizer Ireland, on a project that aims to build a biological probe capable of measuring enzyme activity in real time with cells, which would offer new insights into disease progression and – potentially – treatments.
Announcing the latest Enterprise Partnership Scheme awards, Research Ireland interim CEO, Celine Fitzgerald, said: “These co-funded programmes train early-career researchers for the diversity of employment opportunities in industry, the public sector and the non-government sectors.
“For enterprise partners, the schemes provide a low-risk, flexible route to research talent and innovation in an area closely aligned with their strategic interests. It’s exciting to see the broad experience and benefits that these partnerships will give to researchers and their enterprise-employer partners.”