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TRINITY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE (TIDI)

Supporting Ireland’s engagement with the developing world

TIDI aims to bring focus to the work of Trinity College staff interested in International Development. TIDI will increase the quality and quantity of research on international development across a wide range of disciplines; increase the number of students at all levels, from both North and South, to learn and undertake research about international development issues; deepen and increase the number of teaching and research partnerships between Trinity and universities in low-and middle-income countries; increase understanding by the public, governments and other stakeholders of global development issues.

TIDI is a major cross-College initiative with 100 staff in Trinity working on over 70 research projects on international development. Over 40 courses offered in Trinity have development
content.

Central to this initiative has been the appointment of two proferssors funded by philanthropic support, Professors Patrick Honohan and Frank Barry.

www.tcd.ie/tidi

Pictured: Professor Patrick Honohan, Tom Arnold, CEO of Concern, and Professor Frank Barry.


INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL SCHOOL IN GLOBAL HEALTH (INDIGO)

Building capacity in Health Sciences in Sub-Saharan Africa

The ultimate goal of Indigo is to enable Southern partners to become regional centres of excellence in interdisciplinary health research, producing research leaders who will develop the evidence base for health systems capable of developing and implementing effective treatment strategies and technologies.

Trinity, through Indigo, will build capacity in health systems by educating leaders in health research and creating sustainable health research networks in sub-Saharan Africa. Partnering with Columbia, Oxford and leading universities in Africa, the programme will deliver Ph.D. students in Global Health who will be based in Africa.

About €800,000 of start-up funding has been secured from Higher Education Authority / Irish Aid. The programme has been approved by Graduate Studies and will start in the autumn of 2009.

Sources of funding are currently being identified for students from African countries in the amount of €100,000 per person over four years for Ph.D. students from Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda.

www.medicine.tcd.ie/global-health/indigo

Pictured: Participants at the first Indigo planning meeting.


ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

There is no Planet B

The sustainable and efficient management of our resources, infrastructure and our environment is a major concern in Ireland and throughout the world. To address this concern, the underlying science, engineering and socioeconomics of transport, energy and the environment are the focus of a broad spectrum of research activities in Trinity.

International recognition of the quality of Trinity‘s research in the fields of transport, energy and environment has enabled College to meet its commitment to recruiting world class researchers and postgraduate students and maintain outstanding research facilities and infrastructure.

Trinity has over 60 principal investigators and their research groups are engaged in cutting-edge research, global collaboration and innovative interaction with industrial partners and other groups.

Research is supported through grant aid from diverse sources including the European Union, Science Foundation Ireland, the Higher Education Authority and Government agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture.

Trinity is currently developing plans and engaging interested partners: to this end Trinity Week 2009 was focused on sustainability and the environment with a series of social and outreach events, all free to the public.

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