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Trinity research suggests that post National Gender lockdown transport may change Equality Dashboard NEW research suggests a significant proportion of Trinity College Dublin staff and student population that formerly relied on public transport will now choose to walk or cycle to campus when it fully re-opens after lockdown. Among the reasons provided for the shift were that public transport options in Dublin’s city centre were inadequate even when operating at capacity preCOVID, and that public health guidelines are not enforced on public transport, raising safety concerns. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, 16% of those surveyed walked and 10.4% cycled to Trinity. Once the campus re-opens fully, 27.3% intend to walk and 27.8% intend to cycle. The research, from over 2,500 responses from staff and students surveyed in June and July 2020, also found that many people still harbour all-too familiar fears around how safe cycling and walking in Dublin is. Some of those people indicated they too would be likely to switch to walking or
cycling to Trinity if there were safer options. “Our research shows how travel to our city centre campus may change as restrictions ease. One of the key findings is that as travel returns to the campus that it is likely to be done by more active modes
with some reluctance to use public transport options,” said Professor Brian C a u l f i e l d , f ro m Tr i n i t y ’s S c h o o l o f Engineering. “Trinity’s campus is one of the most sustainable in the world when it comes to mobility with less than 1% of staff driving to the campus each day."
for HEIs launched
A NEW National Gender Equality Dashboard for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to measure progress on gender equality across the sector. Based on published Higher Education Institutional Staff Profiles by Gender from the HEA, this dashboard developed by Maynooth University provides an interactive and comparative visualisation of key staff data and gender profile, from Irish higher education institutions. The National Gender Equality Dashboard for HEIs, which will be updated annually, offers a valuable baseline (2017-2019), from which progress on gender equality can be visualized and measured across all grades of staff in the Universities, Colleges, and Institutes of Technology. The HEA National Review of Gender Equality in Irish Higher Education Institutions in 2016 highlighted the systemic imbalance in female representation at professorial level in Irish universities (19%).
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