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TRiSS Travel Bursaries

The TRiSS Executive Committee is pleased to announce the successful candidates who have been awarded a TRiSS Travel Bursary for January 2025. Well done!

Name	Department/School

Alex Cupples	School of Religion, Theology and Peace Studies
Barry James Kenny	School of Education
Bhavya Shrivastava	School of Social Sciences and Philosophy - Economics
Eleanor Byrne	School of Education
Eleni Karagianni	School of Social Sciences and Philosophy - Political Science
Imogen Eve	School of Social Sciences and Philosophy - Sociology
Jiani Zhong	School of Law
Kathryn Ammon	School of Social Work Social Policy
Lily Rice	School of Social Sciences and Philosophy - Political Science
Lucas da Silva	School of Social Sciences and Philosophy - Political Science
Natnicha Boonyanath	School of Psychology
Parnian Rafei	School of Psychology
Pengpeng Cai	School of Psychology
Qusai Khraisha	School of Psychology
Savanna Daquila	School of Psychology
Vicky Bouché	School of Education
Xiao Huang	School of Education
Xueting Dignam	School of Linguistics, Speech and Communication Sciences
Yichen Zheng	School of Education

Thank you to everyone who made a submission. There were 30 applications this round, as usual, the standard was very high which made the reviewers' task extremly difficult.

We hope to announce the call for TRiSS Travel Bursaries in October 2025. You should be notified of this by your school's PhD admin officer. Or else keep an eye out on our X/Twitter page.

Travel Bursary Reports

If you are interested to see where previous successful recipients have been, please take a look at our Travel Bursary Reports page.

Further information

The TRiSS Travel Bursaries are awarded to postgraduate research students, with a value of up to €750, for the following purposes, which roughly form an order of preference:

• Travel to participate in academic meetings with personal presentation of the results of their research
• Travel to engage in research relevant to their project and to collect material/information for incorporation in their own theses
• Participation in an academic meeting without presentation of research
• Participation in a training course or workshop

Students should note that awards are based on funds available and the number of applications and are not guaranteed.

Further, please note that, for an application to present at a conference, we will consider contingent funding. That is, if there is a conference you want to attend but you do not have funding for it, then knowing in advance that you have qualified for a TTB would then allow you to apply. If your conference application is unsuccessful, then you will not be awarded the funding. With such a system, we can both encourage students to apply for conferences that they otherwise wouldn't be able to, as they would not know if they could pay for it, and maximise the number of students we support.

Rules and Notes:

1. It is envisaged that applications will be considered two/three times a year, depending on funds available.
2. The funding will only be available for the academic meeting/training course/workshop you are applying for.  One event per applicant will be allowed.
3. Only travel, accommodation and conference registration costs will be accepted. This grant does not cover subsistence expenses.
4. Applicants must be research-based postgraduate students from TRiSS member schools, and must not have submitted their thesis prior to commencment of travel.
5. Applicants must confirm support from their supervisor.
6. When calculating accommodation costs (for conferences and workshops), please note that Trinity Finance will only accept expenses a day before the event and a day/half day after.
7. Please do not exceed the word count or you may be penalised.
8. Retrospective applications will not be considered.
9. If you have been successful in the last round of applications, you are asked to sit the next round out.