Awards and Funding - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin

Trinity Long Room Hub announces O’Mahony Music Research Fellowship

The new fellowship in music is dedicated to music and music-related research and will be awarded annually.

16 May 2025

Awards and Funding|Research

Gustav Parker Hibbett wins 2025 Pollard International Poetry Prize

Valued at €10,000, the prize is sponsored by the John Pollard Foundation and administered by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in the School of English at Trinity.

8 May 2025

Awards and Funding|Culture

Trinity’s Campus Security team declared 2025 Team of the Year

The team was declared Estates/Facilities Team of the Year 2025 at the AUDE Conference Awards Dinner and also won a Bronze award in the EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) category for work on student mental health and wellbeing.

1 May 2025

Awards and Funding|Community|Society

Law School receives gift to bolster Centre for Constitutional Governance

This gift will strengthen TriCON's role as a world-leading centre for constitutional scholarship, bringing together academics, legal practitioners, judges, and other stakeholders to discuss the challenges facing constitutional democracy today.   

1 May 2025

Awards and Funding|Research|Society

New Scholars and Fellows announced at Trinity

Provost Dr Linda Doyle said: "On behalf of the Trinity community, I offer my warmest congratulations to everyone who has been elected to Fellowship and Scholarship.These are fantastic academic achievements and the new Fellows and Scholars deserve to feel very proud today."

28 Apr 2025

Awards and Funding|Community|Students

Dublin Theatre Festival donates letter by Samuel Beckett to Trinity Library

The donation was made by the Dublin Theatre Festival through the support of board member, Tom Clinch and his wife Méav Ní Mhaolchatha.

15 Apr 2025

Awards and Funding|Community|Culture

School of Medicine honours its researchers

Six emerging bright stars in health and clinical research have been honoured in the latest round of the Trinity School of Medicine Research Awards 2025.

10 Apr 2025

Awards and Funding|Health|Research

Four Trinity-led projects secure funding to inspire STEM public engagement

Funding from the Research Ireland Discover Programme will enable project teams to enhance public engagement in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

4 Apr 2025

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

Two Trinity projects awarded over €5million in latest awards from Research Ireland

These awards will contribute to the advancement of high-quality and high-impact research activities at the faculties of STEM and Health Sciences.

28 Mar 2025

Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation|Research|Science

Sustainable, shared community mobility project among National Challenge Fund finalists

Professor Brian Caulfield, from Trinity’s School of Engineering, is involved with project "CONUNDRUM", which has received Grow Phase funding as a finalist under the National Challenge Fund programme.

25 Mar 2025

Awards and Funding|Community|Research|Sustainability

Six students receive 2024/25 Three Ireland Connect to STEM Scholarships

Trinity celebrated six student recipients of the 2024/25 Three Ireland Trinity College Dublin Connect to STEM Scholarships for Women at an evening ceremony.

12 Mar 2025

Awards and Funding|Science|Students

Seven Trinity projects scoop Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future funding

Researchers from Trinity have scooped a combined €6.5 million to lead research projects tackling challenges that range from enhancing the performance of 2D nanomaterials to bioengineering corneas.

26 Feb 2025

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science

Trinity to headquarter new €31.6 million Research Ireland ARC Hub for Therapeutics

The overall goal of the Hub is to take world-leading research to commercialisation outcomes such as spinouts and licenses. Along with Trinity, University College Dublin (UCD) and RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences (RCSI) are consortium partners.

12 Feb 2025

Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation|Research|Science

Trinity researchers secure Research Ireland industry-focused fellowships

Eleven researchers from Trinity have secured fellowships with industry partners via the Research Ireland Industry Research, Development, and Innovation Fellowship (IRDIF) Programme.

3 Feb 2025

Awards and Funding|Business|Research

Belfast student wins Trinity scholarship for Northern Ireland undergraduates

Titanic Belfast supports generous bursary worth €20,000 over four years

31 Jan 2025

Awards and Funding|Community|Students

Biomedical engineer secures €600,000 Enterprise Ireland funding to develop respiratory sensor

Dr Conor Hayden, from the ADAPT Research Ireland Centre and Trinity’s School of Engineering, seeks to commercialise the “Ribbon device”, a non-invasive respiratory sensor that may reduce the impact of undetected respiratory compromise on healthcare costs and patient outcomes.

28 Jan 2025

Awards and Funding|Health|Research

€1.75M HRB award for further research into ageing and intellectual disability

The award paves the way for the next phase of the study, to provide valuable data to inform evidence-based policies and practices to support people with intellectual disabilities, their family, friends and healthcare professionals.

23 Jan 2025

Awards and Funding|Health

Trinity scientists win European Research Council Proof of Concept awards

Profs. Valeria Nicolosi and Matthew Campbell have won the awards, valued at €150,000 each, to explore the innovation potential of ideas arising from their previously funded ERC projects.

23 Jan 2025

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Science

Trinity Design & Craft Accelerator programme to run for second year

The 2025 programme will be delivered between March and October, with ten companies set to receive €5,000 each.

22 Jan 2025

Awards and Funding|Business|Community

Professor Jane Humphries announced as the recipient of the second Alice Murray Award

Professor Jane Humphries, University of Oxford, has been announced as the recipient of the second Alice Murray Award by the Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH).

22 Jan 2025

Awards and Funding|Research|Society

593 students receive Entrance Exhibition awards from Trinity

The students come from 452 different schools and from 30 counties on the island of Ireland as well as 38 countries overseas.

22 Jan 2025

Awards and Funding|Community|Students

Ripple and ADAPT to collaborate on Blockchain research at Trinity

The partnership will establish the Ripple Blockchain Collaboratory, a new initiative that will focus on advancing research into blockchain, cryptocurrency, cybersecurity, and FinTech.

20 Jan 2025

Awards and Funding|Research

Christine Casey named 2024 ‘Researcher of the Year’ (IRC legacy Awards)

Daniel Gilligan, Professor Seamus Martin, Dr Mary Canavan and Dr Esther Murphy were also celebrated at the awards, which were announced today by Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland

17 Jan 2025

Awards and Funding|Research

Astrophysicists honoured for gravitational wave astronomy work

Evan Keane, Associate Professor at Trinity and Director of Trinity’s Rosse Observatory, has been honoured with the Royal Astronomical Society’s Group Achievement Award for his European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) work.

13 Jan 2025

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

CONNECT Centre awards over €500,000 to fund women-led STEAM research projects

Four awardees will now lead innovative projects with goals that range from improving the communications systems used by autonomous vehicles to creating eco-friendly options for powering wearable technologies.

7 Jan 2025

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Sustainability

Six early career Trinity researchers win Research Ireland Enterprise Partnership funding

This scheme provides funding to help bring together researchers with an enterprise or employer to collaborate on research of mutual interest.

20 Dec 2024

Awards and Funding|Research

Three awards announced for Trinity researchers in new HRB Evidence for Policy programme

The School of Medicine researchers won three out of seven awards given for patient-oriented research to generate evidence that will strengthen policy development or evaluate how policy is currently implemented.

20 Dec 2024

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Society

Professor Mary McCarron wins HRCI research impact award

Professor McCarron was presented with the award for her work on transforming dementia care for people with intellectual disabilities.

13 Dec 2024

Awards and Funding|Health|Research

Provost presents Trinity Civic Engagement Awards

Congratulations to Prof Eimear McGlinchey, Dr Erica Krueger, Beth Corcoran and Zachary Chambers on receiving these awards

12 Dec 2024

Awards and Funding|Community|Society

Christine McGarrigle awarded prestigious National Institutes of Health grant for spousal caregivers research

Research will explore resilience of spousal caregivers across a number of countries, who face unique challenges in supporting partners living with Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease Related Dementias (AD/ADRD).

10 Dec 2024

Awards and Funding|Health|Research