Academic and Postgraduate Research Fellowships
The Research Fellowships aim to support academic and postgraduate research projects from within and across TRiSS member schools.
Please click on the underlined names below for updates on their research projects.
2025/26 TRiSS Academic and Postgraduate Research Fellowship Awardees
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| Brian Barry | School of Law | Measuring trust and procedural justice of AI for judicial decision-making | |
| Carlo Aldrovandi | School of Religion, Theology and Peace Studies | Transforming the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif Dispute in the post-October 7 Phase | |
| Christian Maruthiah | Department of Economics (CEPH) | Filling the Indian Schedules: New Historical Data on Native Americans | |
| Davide Romelli | Department of Economics | The Evolution of Central Bank Independence and Its Fiscal Consequences: A Legal and AI-Based Perspective | |
| Gizem Arikan | Department of Political Science | Religious Infrastructures and Political Integration of Muslim Immigrants: Evidence from London | |
| Kasia Wodniak | School of Social Work Social Policy | Cooperative housing in Ireland - the potential of deliberative polling | |
| Raj Chari | Department of Political Science | Interest Group Influence on Criminal Sentencing Policy in the US, Canada, and Ireland | |
| Rizwan Asghar | Department of Political Science | The Cost of Militias: Weakening Civilian Control in Post-Conflict Governance | |
| Susan Flynn | School of Social Work Social Policy | Social work, disability and environmental justice: An exposition through conventions of critical disability studies | |
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| Ahmed Ellaboudy | School of Law | The Invisible Triad: Constitutionalism, Preventive Justice, and Property Rights in Legal Countering Terrorism | |
| Aishwarya Deshpande | Department of Economics | Understanding biased human capital investment decisions in low-income settings: theory and evidence from urban India | |
| Ana Jesus | Department of Political Science | Understanding Welfare Opposition among Low-income Earners: The Role of Positive Distinctiveness | |
| Emily Cunniffe | School of Law | Migrant workers in the just transition | |
| Jennifer O'Donoghue | School of Psychology | Disentangling the adult diagnosis of Autism and behavioural phenotype in assigned female at birth individuals | |
| Lily Rice | Department of Political Science | Introducing the Stringency of Sentencing Policy (SSP) Index: How and Why does Sentencing Policy Strictness Vary in Ireland and the US? | |
| Maicol Cortes | School of Religion, Theology and Peace Studies | The Qumran War Scroll and John's Apocalypse: A Social and Cultural Analysis of Shared Traditions | |
| Michael McRae | Department of Economics | Black by Popular Demand: Media, Competition and the Evolution of a Social Norm | |
Below are last year's Fellowship recipients, click on their names to read how their TRiSS Fellowships have helped their research.
2024/25 TRiSS Academic and Postgraduate Research Fellowship Awardees
| Academic | |||
| Alexander Held | Political Science | Registration Rules, Eligibility Uncertainty, and Minority Youth Voter Mobilization | |
| Christiane Ahlborn | Law | Global Corporations in the International Legal Order | |
| Julia Zimmerman | Economics (CEPH) | Roots of Revolution | |
| Leigh-Ann Sweeny | Social Work Social Policy | FOST-WELL: A Biographic Narrative Study of Foster Carers' Wellbeing, Experiences of Stressors and Social Supports during Placement Breakdown in Ireland | |
| Paula Maycock | Social Work Social Policy | The Complex Recovery Experiences of Homeless Service Users with Substance Use Disorder: A Public Engagement and Dissemination Event | |
| Richard Franke | Economics (CEPH) | Wrecking their hopes? – The Effect of Travel Risk Assessment on Migration Decisions | |
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| Alexus McNally | Law | Fair Trial Rights for Children in Conflict with the Law | |
| Bruno Spadi | Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences | Clitic distribution and verb movement in the languages of Sicily | |
| Gabriel Opare | Sociology | Trinity Black History Month Library Exhibition 2024 | |
| Irene Barbotti | Religion, Theology and Peace Studies | Exploring Beatitudes and Woes in the Synoptic Tradition. The Hypothesis of an Apocalyptic Q-Catalogue of Opposite Sayings | |
| Kelly Donegan | Psychology | Characterising distinct psychiatric correlates of habit expression | |
| Ruben Ruf | Business | The impact of foreign stock markets on mental health | |
| Tooba Nadeem Akhtar | Psychology | A mental health, development and psychosocial support intervention for children in natural disaster-affected areas, with a focus on Pakistan's flood-affected areas. | |
2023/24 TRiSS Academic and Postgraduate Research Fellowship Awardees
Academic
| Eman Abboud | Political Science | Decolonizing Data: mapping pre-colonial patterns of ethnopolitical exclusion in sub-Saharan Africa |
| Donatella Camedda | Education | Breaking Barriers: A Photovoice Project on the Experiences of College Students with Intellectual Disabilities |
| Bronagh Catibusic | Linguistics, Speech and Communication Sciences | Nurturing networks through the Trinity English Conversation Classes for refugees |
| Catherine Elliot O'Dare | Social Work Social Policy | Ageism and intergenerational relations in the workplace in Sweden and Ireland – a scoping review of extant literature and trade union policy |
| Susan Flynn | Social Work Social Policy | Coping with complex intersections of child protection risk, the internet and disability: Towards informing and understanding professional responses |
| Elizabeth Nixon | Psychology | Parents' mental state talk and associations with children's development |
Alejandra Ramos & Selim Guelsci |
Economics | Telenovelas with LGBTQ+ characters in Latin-America: which type of representation matter? |
Postgraduate
| Simone Arrigoni | Economics | Who gets the flow? Financial Globalisation and Wealth Inequality |
| Vitalis Bengano | Social Work Social Policy | An exploration of the built environment in/accessibility among disabled students in higher education in Zimbabwe: A New Materialist Perspective. |
| Enrico Cavalloti | Economics | A Criminal Blog-buster: Blogging, Media Coverage and Cartel Tactics in Mexico |
| Lucas da Silva | Political Science | Media Matters: Depictions of Party Positions and Voting Behaviour among Cross-Pressured Voters |
| Salam Jabbour | Psychology | Developing a Community-Level Mental Health Program for Adolescents or Young Adults in Lebanon |
| Michael McRae | Economics | Mass media effect on gender norm perceptions |
| Marina Schenkel | Political Science | Effects of populist rhetoric related to health crises on political preferences |
2022/23 TRiSS Academic and Postgraduate Research Fellowship Awardees
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| Davide Romelli | Economics | Beyond the central bank independence veil: new evidence | |
| Deidre Ahern | Law | The Changing Face of Directors’ Duties in the EU: Making Companies Responsible for Sustainability and Human Rights across Global Supply Chains | |
| Jeffrey Ziegler | Political Science | Computational Tools for Survey Experiments in the Social Sciences | |
| Joseph Roche | Education | Establishing a Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Centre at Trinity College Dublin | |
| Lorraine Swords | Psychology | ADAPT: ADolescents’ Adjustment to Pandemic-related resTrictions. | |
| Susan Flynn | Social Work Social Policy | Virtual Harm: The Internet and Child Protection Risks Associated with Disability | |
| Yunfan Lai | Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences | A glimpse at the world of the Gyalrongs: languages and beyond | |
| Zohar Hadromi-Allouche | Religion | "Demons Good and Bad": An Interdisciplinary Perspective | |
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| Azza Warraitch | Psychology | Development of evidence-based guidelines on youth involvement in health research | |
| Julia Hirschwald | Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences | Establishing a Core Outcome Set for Dysphagia Interventions in Parkinson’s disease: the COS-DIP study | |
| Julia Leesch | Sociology | ’Who’ marries ‘whom’ in Ireland? The role of educational expansion for changing patterns of educational assortative mating | |
| Louisa Roos | Economics | The gender impacts of the Swiss franc shock | |
| Madhav Bhargav | Psychology | Towards a Better Understanding of College Students’ Adverse Childhood Experiences and Later Mental Health | |
| Marketa Odlova | Political Science | Minorities and the Military: The Effects of Conscription on Political Engagement | |
| Michael Buckley | Education | School governance in the Republic of Ireland: A mixed-methods case study of primary schooling | |
| Neha Tetali | Religion | Gendering Foreign Policy: A Feminist Postcolonial engagement with the UN WPS Agenda | |
| Olivia McEvoy | Sociology | Exploring the “causes of causes” of inequalities: how do health behaviours become socially patterned? | |