Last night, Trinity College, the University of Melbourne, was delighted to welcome Professor Larry Gostin, Founding O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law, and Director, WHO Centre on Public Health Law & Human Rights at Georgetown University, and Professor Ian Donaldson (TC 1954), Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, to launch its new Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS).
The Centre supports the visits of innovative thinkers keen to promote collaboration across conventional academic boundaries especially in seeking to resolve global problems.
‘Trinity has a proud history of welcoming local and international visiting scholars from a great variety of backgrounds and disciplines to think about the important societal issues of our time,’ the Warden of Trinity College, Professor Andrew McGowan, said.
‘This new initiative that forms part of our strategic plan as we work towards the College’s 150th anniversary, will see us building on this history and establishing new partnerships with the University, as well as other academic institutions, faculties and research centres, to provide intellectual engagement to the Trinity community and a rich community of scholarship.
‘The relationships that are formed – the personal encounter between teacher and student – is fundamental to what we do, and we are privileged to have the ongoing support and contribution from two world-leading thinkers, Professor Larry Gostin and Professor Ian Donaldson.’
‘Students are at the heart of the Centre and that is what I enjoy most about being a part of the Trinity community; being surrounded by radiant, brilliant young minds who challenge me, challenge research, and who are so passionate about interdisciplinary learning,’ Professor Gostin said.
‘As a leading academic college, what Trinity is doing is momentous – bringing disciplines together to question the challenges of our time offers great intellect to the community and to the world at large.’
Professor Ian Donaldson affirmed Professor Gostin’s sentiments and expressed his delight at Trinity’s new initiative.
‘The mixed nature of interdisciplinary research that Trinity encourages is truly inspiring – it engages not only senior management and academics, but postgraduate and undergraduate students, too,’ Professor Donaldson said.
‘The Fireside Chats, public lectures and workshops that the College promotes ensures that the Trinity experience is truly transformative and this initiative creates another very special community, one that is certainly worth celebrating.’
