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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 November/December 2025. Well done!

Name	Department/School

Borui Zheng	School of Education
Flavia Pellegrini	School of Social Sciences and Philosophy - Economics
Imogen Eve	School of Social Sciences and Philosophy - Sociology
Kamil Daniel Akdag	School of Law
Lily Rice	School of Social Sciences and Philosophy - Political Science
Marie Santillo	School of Psychology
Michaela Nudo	School of Social Work Social Policy
Savanna Daquila	School of Psychology
Sijia Dai	Trinity Business School
Tooba Nadeem Akhtar	School of Psychology
Ziyi Chen	School of Law

Thank you to everyone who made a submission. There were 20 applications this round, as usual, the standard was very high which made the reviewers' task extremly difficult.

The next round of TRiSS Travel Bursaries will be announced in February/March 2026. You will be notified of the call via your School's Admin Officer, or keep an eye on our website/socials.

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 once 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.