Visiting Professorships and Fellowships Benefaction Fund

The Visiting Professorships and Fellowships Benefaction Fund is disbursed annually by the Faculty Deans. Individual grants, up to €1,000, are intended to assist in financing the cost of research visits to College, by academics from other institutions. The call is opened annually, in November.

The Visiting Professorships and Fellowships Benefaction Fund provides a great opportunity to host visiting academics, which can sometimes lead to high-profile public lectures and events, collaborative research sessions, or even an entire conference being built around their visit. Some examples of recent Visiting Professors to Health Sciences are below, for inspiration.

2024 Call Now Open - closing date Thursday 12th December, 5pm

Only one application may be submitted by an individual in any given year.

Applicants must be permanent members of academic staff or those who have a contract until at least 31 December 2025.

The grant must be spent in the calendar year 2025. If not, grants will be re-absorbed into the Fund for re-distribution the following year.

Applications will be considered by the Faculty Deans, and applicants will be notified of the outcome by the end of term.

If awarded funding, a short report must be submitted to ldohert@tcd.ie for consideration by the Faculty Dean after the visit - awards will not be granted to anyone who has an outstanding report due in for a previous year.

Where the award is to fund a lecture, it must be advertised as widely as possible within College. Please contact the Faculty Administrator, Lena Doherty, for assistance with this ldohert@tcd.ie

Applications should be submitted here

To assist you with preparing to submit your application online, a preview of the form is available here (opens as a PDF).