Irish Accounting & Finance Association and Chartered Accountants Ireland Educational Trust Research
Funding Competition

The Irish Accounting & Finance Association (IAFA) and Chartered Accountants Ireland Educational Trust
(CAIET) are delighted to announce a joint research funding competition to support and advance research
projects for IAFA members. Applications from researchers within all accounting and finance disciplines are
welcome. Projects that can demonstrate relevance to educators, practitioners, policymakers, standard setters,
regulators, professional advisors and business owners are particularly welcome. Research projects with a focus
on the following areas are encouraged:

➢ Artificial intelligence and ethical decision-making.
➢ Sustainability and climate change reporting.
➢ Adaptive learning in accounting education.
➢ Contemporary issues in accounting.

Awards are subject to a maximum of €5,000 per application. IAFA and CAIET will jointly fund up to €20,000
for applications deemed of sufficient quality from applicants who meet the terms and conditions of application.

Terms and conditions:
➢ The competition is open to IAFA members; non-members wishing to apply can contact IAFA to
become a member. See: https://iafa.ie/
➢ Individual applications, joint applications from researchers within the same institution, and joint
applications between two or more researchers from two or more separate institutions, are welcome.
➢ Each application should clearly identify a single Principal Investigator (PI), who is a staff member in
an institution of higher education on the Island of Ireland. Applicants cannot act as PI on more than
one application.
➢ Members who are currently registered on a PhD programme cannot act as a Principal Investigator,
but can be part of a joint application where another applicant acts as Principal Investigator.
➢ Applicants must not have received funding for their research project from elsewhere.
➢ Examples of qualifying expenditure include; data collection (including associated travel costs);
transcription costs; attendance at research seminars/conferences/workshops; specialist training not
available within your institution; journal submission fees; and other clearly identifiable project costs.
➢ The cost of computers/laptops, books, or software, which is normally covered under institutional
licences, will not be supported. Institutional overheads will not be covered.
➢ Awardees can claim approved expenditure on an annual basis and must claim all expenditure within
three years from the award date. Approved expenditure will be reimbursed by submission of
appropriately documented and receipted expenditure claims to the IAFA Treasurer.
➢ Proposed projects can be between one and three years in duration.
➢ Awardees are required to prepare a final project report on the findings of their study and present it to
CAIET within six months of completion of the project. For projects of greater than one year an
interim report is to be presented within 18-months of the start date.
➢ Awardees are required to present the results of their study in a paper at an IAFA Conference within
one year from the project completion date.
➢ Award recipients who benefit are required to explicitly acknowledge the support of IAFA and
CAIET in their research project outputs.
➢ Applications will be adjudicated by an independent panel of IAFA and CAIET members.

➢ Applications are to be emailed to michael.hayden@mu.ie

➢ Informal enquires can be emailed to Michael Hayden (michael.hayden@mu.ie) or Stuart Henderson
(s.henderson1@ulster.ac.uk)

Key Dates: Applications are open, closing 30/09/2025. Awards announced on or before 31/10/2025.

IAFA and CAIET Joint Funding Competition T&Cs and application form