To mark International Women in Engineering Day on the 23d of June 2022, Trinity Women Graduates is putting the spotlight on two trailblazing TCD engineering graduates. We are delighted to be joined by Professor Jane Grimson, a Computer Engineering graduate from Trinity College Dublin, former Dean of Engineering and of Research and Vice-Provost from 2001-2005. Professor Grimson is a strong advocate for the advancement of women in engineering and in research more broadly.
We are also delighted to welcome Tríona Byrne, TCD Structural Engineering graduate working on conservation projects on buildings of all ages, style and size in the greater Dublin region. Tríona is co-founder of the Irish branch of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), completed the SPAB Scholarship in 2016 and is a SPAB Trustee.
We will have a conversation with these two women, discuss their career highlights, what drives them, and what attracted them to their respective fields in engineering and research. We look forward to many of our members joining this conversation. Moderated by Dr Lucy Corcoran, TWG President 2022.
Find out more about our guest speakers below.
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Meet the speakers
Professor Jane Grimson
Professor Jane Grimson is a TCD computer engineering graduate and holds a Masters and Doctorate in Computer Science from the Universities of Toronto and Edinburgh, respectively. She returned to Trinity College as a lecturer in Computer Science in 1980 and was elected a Fellow in 1991. She is a former Dean of Engineering and of Research and served as Vice-Provost from 2001-2005. Professor Grimson has published widely in the field of database systems and health informatics particularly in the area of electronic health records.
She is a Past-President of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland (now Engineers Ireland), the Irish Academy of Engineering, the Irish Computer Society, and the Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Irish Academy of Engineering, and Engineers Ireland and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. From 2006 until her retirement in 2014, she was partially seconded to the newly established Health Information and Quality Authority, initially as Director of Health Information and subsequently as Acting Chief Executive. She was elected a Pro Chancellor of the University of Dublin in 2016.
Professor Grimson is a strong advocate for the advancement of women in engineering and in research more broadly. She helped to establish WiSER (the Centre for Women in Science and Engineering Research) at Trinity College Dublin and chaired the Gender Equality Task Force NUI Galway from 2015-2016. In 2017 she was awarded an honorary degree by NUI Galway for services to engineering and to gender equality in higher education.
Tríona Byrne
Tríona Byrne is a Structural Engineering graduate of Trinity College Dublin working on conservation projects on buildings of all ages, style and size in the greater Dublin region. She is co-founder of the Irish branch of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) and served as Chair for 5 years from its foundation in 2017 until 2021. She completed the SPAB Scholarship in 2016 and is a SPAB Trustee.
She is on the Conservation Group committee of Engineers Ireland and has been involved with the ICOMOS Ireland National Scientific Committee on Energy, Sustainability and Climate Change. She is a member of the Building Limes Forum of Ireland and the Dry Stone Walling Association of Ireland.