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The annual children’s literature summer school, led by lecturers and researchers in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin, gives you the chance to deepen your knowledge and enhance your appreciation of children’s literature. Digital lectures and presentations as well as reading materials and resources will be available throughout the week allowing participants to work at their own pace. Each of the sessions will come with a dedicated discussion forum. Course tutors will be taking part too and there will be some live sessions that all learners can join. Registration: €30/€20

The Growing Up in Ireland team invites abstracts for papers from researchers working on Growing Up in Ireland data. Data from the quantitative or qualitative Growing Up in Ireland archives must be a core feature of the research being presented. Methodological and theoretical papers based on Growing Up in Ireland will also be considered. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted via the GUI abstract submission form by 29th July. (This event expected to be online).

The school shutdown has put intense pressure on schools to support continuity of learning for their students. This puts extra demands on schools to communicate clearly and effectively with parents. TCD School of Education has brought together experts for this special webinar to provide supports for schools and teachers in planning their communications to parents.

An interactive, online workshop for kids (age 7 - 9) designed to explain viruses in a fun way. Kids will be drawing and doing an experiment. Run by Niamh and Caoimhe O’Boyle from the TCD School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Spaces limited

Dr Rachel Hoare, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, is the winner of this year’s Registrar’s Civic Engagement Award. Dr Hoare’s work in art psychotherapy assisting unaccompanied and separated children seeking asylum in Ireland was singled out by the review panel, not only for its direct impact in working with the children in this situation, but also for the many ways in which the learnings from the work and experience are shared; through the development of professional training, teaching, academic dissemination and participation in creative arts projects. View a video of the conversation between Dr Rachel Hoare, and Trinity College Dublin Registrar, Professor Paula Murphy.

The 2020-2030 Trinity College Dublin School of Nursing and Midwifery PhD Scholarship programme is now open. We are offering a combination of funded full-time and part-time scholarships for entry into the PhD programme in September 2020. Apply by 30 June 2020

The Department of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) is seeking to appoint two outstanding and highly motivated PhD candidates with excellent qualifications, strong quantitative skills and potential to write an excellent PhD dissertation in Social Sciences. Both PhD positions are full-time for the 2020/24 (48 months). The stipend of each position will be of 20,000 € per annum.

We were delighted to host a TRiCC international PhD seminar on Thursday 12th March in the TRiSS seminar room. We had presentations from Hamide Elif Üzümcü, University of Padova, Italy; Sibel Korkmaz, Stockholm University, Sweden; and Amy Stapleton, TRiCC. Each presentation stimulated many questions and much discussion.

The researcher will assist with a research project to evaluate an intervention to improve youth question-asking and provider education during paediatric diabetes visits. This position will appeal to anyone with an interest in healthcare research and who wishes to develop their research career and profile.