Student Scholarships & Research Opportunities

Available to SHU students studying abroad at the SHU Dingle, Ireland campus during the Winter or May programs. The application will become available once students are accepted into the study abroad program. 

Matthew Dalling Scholarship webpage

Available to SHU students in the Welch College of Business & Technology, the Welch Experience Tuition Waiver covers the cost of tuition for a course taken while on a short-term SHU study abroad program in Dingle or other faculty-led/SHU course destination. The Welch Waiver may be applied to each student once. The application becomes available once students are accepted into a study abroad program. For more information about the Welch Waiver, contact Global Engagement or Sean Heffron in the Welch College of Business & Technology. 

This $500 scholarship is available to SHU honors students. The application becomes available once students are accepted into a study abroad program. For more information about the Honors scholarship, contact Global Engagement or Andrew Lazowski. 

This scholarship was established to honor baseball legend Jackie Robinson’s legacy on and off the field. This fund provides annual scholarships for African American students to study abroad at Sacred Heart University’s global campus in Dingle, Ireland. Two scholarships per year of up to $5,000 are available to be split between winter and spring short-term programs.  

Jackie Robinson Irish Cultural Studies Scholarship Fund webpage

At the Fairfield campus, our Irish Studies work-study students gain experience with our newsletter, publicity and social media promotions. As we develop plans for digitizing and managing our new CTIAHS archives, there will be additional opportunities for students to work with these archival materials, through independent research or as part of the digitization project. Two CAS students (English and History) completed paid internships in 2023 to develop website material for the CTIAHS website, a collaboration that will continue to offer students research opportunities. 

SHU in Dingle coordinates practice-based research and internship opportunities for the School of Communication, Media & the Arts (SCMA) students in the fields of PR, marketing and communications, and content production with high-profile businesses such as the Dingle Skellig Hotel, Dingle Sea Safari, and the Dingle Food Festival. Demand for SCMA interns continues to grow. Opportunities in Fairfield include working on digital context/marketing for the John Moriarty Institute for Ecology and Spirituality.  

Opportunities for student research in Dingle include the Hunter McIntosh Scholarship for Sustainable Tourism Research in partnership with the SHU’s Institute for Sustainability and Social Justice. Internships are available with local businesses, including Dingle Oceanworld Aquarium and Dingle Sea Safari.

Our Dingle campus offers a 3-credit course titled, “Irish & American Education in Comparative Perspective,” that provides opportunities for comparative education research. The college maintains a partnership with Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland, through which study abroad experiences can be facilitated. Additional opportunities are being developed.

Nursing undergraduates who study in Dingle gain clinical experience at one of three Kerry hospitals as part of their curriculum. This is a unique intercultural research experience rarely offered to nursing students on study abroad. Students studying physical therapy are able to shadowhealthcare providers in Dingle, and the MS in Occupational Therapy program similarly provides opportunities for intercultural work in Dingle.