Welcome Dear Alumni & Friends, Welcome to your 2021 edition of Trinity Today. We hope you’re all doing well, wherever in the world you are. This summer, Trinity elected a new Provost in Linda Doyle, and our interview with her in this issue will be, for many, a first introduction. Professor Doyle’s accession to the role was a historic day for the university and, duly, much of the wider press attention focused on the fact that she became Trinity’s first female Provost in its 429-year history. As she states in the interview, while she will never lose sight of the importance of this fact, its major significance lies in its potential to inspire others to transcend barriers, imposed or imagined, that keep them from reaching their potential. This idea of crossing barriers, and of making connections where none have been made before, is one that the Provost intends to apply throughout her long term in office. She tells us that not only will there be more opportunity at postgraduate level for disciplines – from Humanities through STEM – to combine for the good of research, but there will be more need, too, for this to happen, if universities are to improve our world. She cites the example of how science and the arts came together to tackle the problems of life under COVID. This edition of Trinity Today reaches you just as the full implications of the UN’s 2021 climate change report are being understood, and while many institutions and industries will struggle to adapt, or even resist change, the Provost has vowed that Trinity will be at the spearhead of a green revolution. ‘Climate change will affect everything,’ she tells us. ‘How we teach, what research we do, how c ollege operates.’ Over the following pages, you’ll meet many of our graduates who’ve excelled and inspired in their fields – from software development, to filmmaking, to biochemistry, to literature, to business – who’ve benefited from a wider world of research and rich life experiences, and, in some cases, have defied the expectations that others might have placed on them for people of their backgrounds. Truly, they are trailblazers for the next generation of changemakers Trinity will send out into the world. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this edition, and to the hard-working team in Trinity Development & Alumni for making the issue such an attractive and engaging read. Best wishes, Jennifer Taaffe, BA (1997) Director of Alumni & Supporter Relations Trinity Development & Alumni
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