2023 Archive: Research Village
A Virtual Reality Volumetric Music Video: Featuring New Pagans
Visit a Virtual Reality installation that uses computer-generated 3D world-building techniques and chat with researchers about their work in the area of Creative Experiments with volumetric music videos!
Turning Heat into Electricity
Learn all about semiconductors and thermoelectric generators with researchers from Trinity's School of Engineering
Drops of Blood as New Tests for Cancer
Join researchers from the All-Ireland Cancer Liquid Biopsies Consortium (CLuB) to find out more about the potential of liquid biopsies in the diagnosis of cancer. Find out more about the CLuB project here.
Pytch - how do you keep coding interesting in the classroom?
If you want to know more about how we support computer science in secondary schools then come and join us to see how it works, and find out about keeping coding fun in the classroom – and you can even help us out by exploring new features that we’re working on for next year. No previous coding knowledge required!
The Power of the patient in radiation therapy research
Researchers in radiation therapy will demonstrate the role of the patient in developing modern treatments - join them for some challenges and experiments to learn more!
Habits Unlocked: From Lab to Life
This interactive demonstration will unlock the secrets around habits! How do they develop? Who is more likely to develop habits? And can we break them? Take part in a series of challenges to find out more!
Find My Farm: Where Do Our Farm Animals Come From?
In this interactive learning experience ancient DNA researchers will share what they know about the origins of livestock animals, where they were domesticated and how they changed over time!
Meetings with Manuscripts
Researchers from the Trinity Centre for the Book and Trinity's Library will host a range of activities and challenges for all ages! See if you can beat the computer transcription challenge, try your hand at a manuscript matching game, or colour some recently digitised images!
Navigating Climate Change with Plants: a Botany Bootcamp
Collect stamps at each activity to complete the Botany Bootcamp! Meet researchers in the Research Village and take a tour of Trinity's historic Herbarium to learn how plants adapt to climate change!
NatPro presents the business of biodiversity for a sustainable tomorrow
Did you know that one of the most powerful insect repellents in the world can be found in Irish bogs? Join the team from NatPro to learn about Bog-myrtle, how to recognise Ireland's bogland plants, view and smell some product samples, and make your own algae based test tube jelly worms!
Passwords and Classification
Talk to researchers about how easy it is to hack passwords, the importance of creating strong passwords and how tokenization works. Learn more about methods that will help you create strong passwords so kids and adults can stay safe online!
The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
Join the team from TILDA as they demonstrate some of the equipment they use assess your health as you age. Test your grip strength on the dynamometers and see where you end up on the leaderboard!
Wish you were here? Critical ChangeLab postcards from the future.
What will the world look like in 2050? What do you want it to look like? Join Critical ChangeLab at START: European Researchers' Night and send a postcard from the future. Tell those you left behind in 2023 what the future looks, sounds, and even smells like. Write with news of what, why, and how of changes still to come. What will you imagine?
Critical ChangeLab is an EU project that seeks to foster youth agency to transform the systems in which they learn, live, and work and develop creative imaginaries about democracy and the future. Researchers from the Trinity School of Education and the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute are part of a European consortium working to develop innovative, transdisciplinary, youth-led approaches to democracy and global citizenship education. Find out more here.
AMBER Nano Materials: Tiny Solutions to Big Challenges
From climate change to personalised medicine, advanced materials and bioengineering research lies at the heart of solving many of the challenges facing 21st century society.
Meet our scientists and hear about how they are advancing our understanding of these materials as they work toward making our world a better place.
[Image credit: Jack Maughan (AMBER PhD Researcher) & Tara McGuire (RCSI)
