Trinity

Trinity’s postgraduate students and academics are offering supercurricular enrichment to secondary and sixth-form students at state schools. 

Trinity Beyond the Classroom sees a college academic or postgraduate deliver an interactive teaching session online, with a mix of topics ranging from the politics of Brexit and the future of plastics to the sequencing of the human genome and Virginia Woolf’s modernism. The topics are deliberately designed to supplement standard themes in GCSE or A-Level courses, as well as being interesting standalone topics for students. 

Each Trinity Talk session takes the form of an online presentation with interactive discussion and questions. The talks are recorded and are available on a playlist on Trinity's YouTube Channel. 

You can register for the 2023 Trinity Beyond the Classroom  talks here. The series includes the following topics:

• 14 February: A General Measure of Health for Older People (Medicine, Biology, Social Sciences)
• 28 February: Digital Health (Social Sciences, Media, Biology)
• 14 March: Philosophy & Machine Learning:  Artificial Intelligence (Computer Science, Maths, Philosophy)
• 28 March:  Why governments usually win, but sometimes lose, elections (Politics, Sociology, History, HSPS)
• 25 April: The ethics of US intervention in South Africa's HIV/AIDS crisis (Medicine, Social Sciences, Public Policy)
• 9 May: Batteries and their potential (Physics, Materials Science, Engineering)
• 23 May: Catalysis in Chemistry: Metal-organic frameworks and their application on photocatalysis (Chemistry)
• 6 June:  Conversion to Islam in the medieval Near East (Theology, History, Politics)
• 20 June:  Spanish accounts of the conquest of Chile (Spanish, History, MFL)
• 11 July:  Does Immorality Make Artworks worse as Art?  (Art, History of Art, English, Humanities, MFL)

You can see some of the past Trinity Talks by browsing our YouTube playlist. Or for specific topics click on the links below:

• The History of Medicine
• The Relevance of French Literature to a Modern  Reader
• The Political Thought of Virginia Woolf
• Introduction to Linguistics
• Roman Identity in Byzantium
• Fandom and Fiction in 18th and 19th Century Theatre
• Molecular Biology: Cracking the Genetic Code
• The Future of Plastic: Environmental Challenges and Everyday Life