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.

Next call will open in November 2026, for visits in 2027

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 in the year of the proposed visit.

The grant must be spent in the calendar year 2026. If not, grants will be re-absorbed into the Fund for re-distribution the following year.

Applications will be considered by the Faculty Dean, 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 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

(link for 2026 applications will be made available in November 2026)