- Three international calls for applications were undertaken between 2017 and 2019, with 201 applications for 9 positions from 26 different countries.
-The programme reached out to 792 scholars outside of the Republic of Ireland for the expert review stages, from 23 countries.
- The average gender balance across the three calls for applications was 52% female and 47% male. Of the successful candidates, 6 out of 9 fellows were women, on average across the three calls 48% of reviewers were female.
- 9 world class scholars were appointed at postdoctoral level for 12 month periods from North America, the UK, Turkey, Poland and the Lebanon, with rich engagement with the surrounding cultural institutions and industry and extensive academic and non academic engagement. They worked on projects that addressed deep multidisciplinary research questions about human motivation, identity, expression and behaviour and how these perspectives have shaped individuals, communities, societies and the planet, from medieval times to the present.
- The fellows drew international attention to the richness and untapped potential of Trinity’s manuscript and early printed book Library collections, with 6 of the 9 fellows focused on working with the Library and the manuscripts theme.
- It facilitated many interdisciplinary collaborations drawing attention to other major areas of established and emerging critical research mass in Trinity particularly around identities research, environmental humanities, neurohumanities and digital humanities.
- The academic mentors appointed were pivotal in helping the fellows become embedded in the academic environment of the Schools as well as in the broader activities of the research themes. They provided invaluable guidance in identifying the next steps in their career trajectories and the training and networks that would help that transition. All fellows were successfully embedded in the interdisciplinary research themes to which they aligned their project proposals. The fellows participated in 90 bespoke Arts and Humanities related career workshops at Trinity over the programme, they presented 48 research lectures to academic conferences and seminars in Trinity, Ireland and internationally, and co-organised 11 research activities such as conferences, symposia, workshops and reading groups.
-The fellows became extensively involved in the public humanities focus of the Hub's activities. They produced 37 public facing non-academic outputs related to their research (blog posts, op-eds, podcast episodes, videos, radio interviews among others) which has had extensive reach across social media and the media (with op.eds. in the New York Times, the Irish Times, tv, and radio).
