Trans* Research Association of Ireland (TRAI)
The Trans* Research Association of Ireland (TRAI) is a new research network supported by the UCD College of Arts and Humanities and School of English, Drama and Film and is open to all trans* researchers working in Ireland, and all researchers working on and with Irish transness.
Research Aims
The Trans* Research Association of Ireland seeks to create a network for trans* researchers & researchers working on Irish trans* issues. It hopes to disseminate Irish researchers’ contributions to international field of trans* studies & prioritise applied trans theory and scholarship in an Irish context. TRAI is excited to foster a community around trans research in Ireland.
TRAI Symposium
The network hosts a roundtable and symposium each year.
The 2025 Symposium will take place on the 21st and 22nd of November in Queen’s University Belfast in collaboration with Outburst Queer Arts Festival and the Centre for Gender in Politics at Queen’s. See “Symposium” for the CFP and more details.
News & Events
Do you have an upcoming event that might be of interest to the network? Let us know at transresearchireland@gmail.com so we can add it to our upcoming events list.
Call for T*RAI Committee Members
CFP – The Trans* Research Association of Ireland’s Second Annual Symposium
Registration is now open for the Trans* Research Association of Ireland’s First Annual Symposium
Network Board
Taylor Follett (he/him)
Taylor Follett is a PhD candidate at University College Dublin, where he researches women’s relationship to the family in Irish novels post-2010. Taylor’s research interests include contemporary Irish writing, LGBTQ+ representation in Irish literature and beyond, and queer and trans* theory. Originally from rural Northern California, he lives in Dublin with his husband and their pets.
Dr Matty Kennedy (he/they)
Dr Matty Kennedy (he/they) is an interdisciplinary empiricist in the area of trans studies, an educator and a writer. He is currently a research fellow at the University of Southampton’s Winchester School of Art and the co-chair and outreach manager for the Trans* Research Association of Ireland. Prior to this he was employed in Belong To, Ireland’s National LGBTQ+ youth organisation as the research and advocacy manager during which time he completed his PhD. His PhD was a qualitative, interdisciplinary, community-based project exploring transnormativity and the lifeworlds of young trans men in Ireland and is currently in progress as a monograph. His writing can be found in The Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies, Irish University Review, and Poetry Ireland among others.
Dr Anne Mulhall
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