Banner for Trinity College Dublin Women in Research Week 2025, with a blue background and white and yellow text.
Digital poster featuring four women, each with their name and affiliation, celebrating Women in Research Week for Women's History Month 2025, at Trinity College Dublin.

Are you interested in attending a Women in Research Week ahead of International Women's Rights Day on March 8th?

Women researchers across Trinity—from early-career researchers to professors—will come together to showcase their work and highlight the contributions of women from our research community at Trinity College Dublin. The week will feature a portrait exhibition, talks, conferences, meetings with academic institutions, networking sessions, publications, and discussions. With support from the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee of Trinity College, the Dean of Research, and the Trinity Long Room Hub, Arts & Humanities Research Institute, PhD researcher Morgiane Noel is launching this platform and organising activities to connect women from diverse backgrounds and share their research at Trinity.

This event will showcase women with impactful ideas and groundbreaking research, recognising their portraits and projects while introducing the individuals behind the research conducted at Trinity. Women in Research Week 2025 will focus on gender-based research, women in global South scholarship, women with disabilities, women from diverse cultural backgrounds, women in resistance, both in Ireland and globally, and more. To ensure inclusivity and accessibility, the event features a variety of platforms to disseminate women’s research, including the researchMATTERS blog, portrait screenings, talks, and networking sessions.

Throughout the week, over 40 participants will have the opportunity to collaborate and share their research with a diverse audience. Attendees will engage with their work through discussions, networking sessions, and mentoring opportunities, connecting early-career researchers with accomplished senior researchers.
The week will be opened by the Dean of Research, Prof. Sinéad Ryan, at the Trinity Long Room Hub, while the main event will take place on Thursday, March 6th, at the same venue. At the end of the week, the network will share the highlights with the Equality Office and the Dean of Research to promote further improvements in fostering inclusion at our college. Thank you to all our speakers and contributors!

Presentation slide titled "Why Women in the Archive?" with four bullet points: "Historical Strides," "Different Perspectives," "Balancing Limitations," and "Understanding the world today." A woman stands at a podium in front of the slide, and the room has wood-paneled walls and a projector screen.

Mentoring session with Professor Na Fu

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A woman in a black blazer giving a presentation in a classroom, with a slide titled 'Impact on People, Organisations and Communities' projected on a white screen behind her. The classroom has large windows with blinds and modern lighting.
Group of women sitting at a conference table in a meeting room, listening attentively with notebooks, pens, and snacks on the table.
A woman giving a presentation at Trinity College Dublin, with a large screen displaying a slide titled 'Is welfare apolitical in nature?' The slide contains bullet points discussing social policy, welfare, and the role of the state.
People sitting and listening in a conference room with wooden walls and large windows, some taking notes.
A woman presenting at a podium in a lecture hall at Trinity College Dublin. The background screen displays a PowerPoint slide titled 'eSTÓR Project' with bullet points about outreach activities, digitization, and research. The podium has the Trinity College Dublin emblem and text.
A woman standing at a podium giving a presentation at Trinity College Dublin, with a large screen behind her displaying a slide titled 'Support for Irish Language Technology'. The slide includes bullet points about Irish digital plans, skill gaps, industry support, and an ELE report.
A woman giving a presentation at Trinity College Dublin, standing behind a lectern with the university's emblem and a nameplate, in a wood-paneled room.

As part of the Research Week we collaborated with the editors Peter Lang and shared the book of Pat ‘O’ Connor ”A ‘Proper’ woman? One woman’s story of success and failure in academia”

Several pamphlets inside a cardboard box, titled 'A Proper Woman? A Woman's Story of Success and Failure in Academia'.

To ensure inclusivity and accessibility, the event features a variety of platforms to disseminate women’s research, including researchMATTERS blog, portrait screenings, talks, and networking sessions.

#researchMATTERS

Women in Research Conference


The Women in Research Conference (Thursday, March 6th, 1:30 - 5:30 PM) at the Trinity Long Room Hub features three panels:

  • Gender-Based Research in Academia.

    Zoe Patterson (PhD researcher), Gerty MacDowell is “just a girl”: reading Ulysses’s “Nausicaa” episode in the 2020s. (1.45 pm-2.05 pm). Dr Viviana Mazaioli (Assistant professor), 'Insights into Inflammatory Rheumatic diseases and Their Societal Impact'. (2.10 pm-2.30 pm). Isobel Connolly , The relationship between the Irish Suffrage Movement and the Vegetarian Movement. (2.30 pm-2.50 pm).

  • Interwoven Paths: examines how researchers' backgrounds shape their work, with a focus on diversity and the Global South.

    Rita Honghui Zhu (PhD researcher), Multilingualism in transnational education. (3.15 pm-3.35 pm). Srimoyee Biswas (PhD researcher), Social exclusion and marginalization in Welfare. (3.35 pm 3.55 pm). Sinziana Stanciu, Researching Women in Moments of Political Change. (3.55 pm -4.10 pm).

  • The Journey of Women in Academia: highlights personal experiences and challenges.

    Dr. Cuisle Forde (Assistant Professor), Interdisciplinary Approaches to Health and Well-Being: from Clinical populations to AI and Sustainable Systems. (4.35 pm-4.55 pm). Tara Kerins Aylmer (PhD researcher), My Journey to a PhD in Regulation Theory and Artificial Intelligence Regulation. (4.55 pm-5.15 pm). eSTOR.ie (research project ) (5.15 pm-5.30 pm).