Schols

dam u seamus and kev!!!...er...i mean...well done....

Hang on a second, I think we're a little confused on the role of Fellowship. It's not a promotion. Nor has it anything to do with being a professor. That's a totally separate process that is very different (and much more complicated). Professor in Trinity (as in other Irish/UK unis) is a rank on the promotional scale (i.e. lecturer - senior lecturer - associate prof - prof). Some people are hired at prof but most come in at lecturer and then look for promotion at a later stage.

Being a Fellow (which is open to profs and non-profs, the sections of the Statutes are slightly different hence the list of fellows and professorial fellows) doesn't mean you get a promotion - it gives you certain entitlements (voting on changes to the statutes, voting for a big chunk of Board members, participating in discussions and debates, part of the 'body corporate' that technically owns the college).

(Of course this doesn't change debates on gender etc. But it's important not to overstate it, much as it's a nice honour to get, it doesn't turn lecturers into professors or anything like that).

Ok, 3/4 new professors are female. Firstly, congratulations to them.

Ok, now to the tricky part. Do you think this is because college is trying to increase the number of female professors? I'm not saying any of them are undeserved of their promotion or am I saying some men were over looked. But......

Am I much too cynical?

Well over half the scholars are chicks too.

No the vast majority of new fellows are male. 4/5 new professorial fellows are female. In total, 8 out of 23 new fellows are female. Scroll down the page. If they are trying to increase the proportion of female fellows, they are failing miserably.

Professorial fellows are a special case: it's a sort of catch-up award usually given to people who've reached positions of seniority without becoming fellows. They're usually very recent appointments who have come in to TCD as heads of dept or holders of chairs. Look at the dates of appointment for the women you're talking about. You could deduce an increase in recent female hires at high position - but four people? Doesn't seem statistically significant.

As for scholars, not sure from all the names but it looks like max 40 out of 76 women to me. Affected by medicine (10 scholars of whom 8 are women , vast majority on the course female), but looks like a fair match with overall numbers on campus anyway - aren't 55% of undergrads female?

And there is truly no stage of the examination process where correction for a more PC gender balance could take place. Honestly. No one's that interested. Maybe you aren't cynical enough.

Well done to all scholars and fellows.

Well done to everyone who got schols

I'd thought they'd show the scholars of the decades photo in the times? 'cept it's some lame one of people jumping. Meh

It comes out a few weeks after Trinity Monday, usually.