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Postgraduate Prospectus—Research Postgraduate prospectus—research 2 013 –2014 Visit us: We’re having an Autumn Postgraduate Open Day on Wednesday 31 October 2012 and a Spring Postgraduate Open Day on Tuesday 12 February 2013. Staff and students will be there to answer your questions. There will be talks about careers, funding and the benefits of doing a postgraduate course with us. See www.nuigalway.ie/postgraduate-open-day for details www.nuigalway.ie 2 NUI GalwayNUI Galway Research Postgraduate Postgraduate Prospectus Prospectus 2012–13 2013–14 Postgraduate prospectus— research programmes 2013–2014 This research prospectus details research programmes and research interests. There is an accompanying taught prospectus detailing our taught courses. Please see www.nuigalway.ie/pgp to order or download a copy of the complementary prospectus. CONTENTS OUr rESEARCH PrOgRAMMES Foreword from Dean of Graduate Studies 4 Research programme structure and supports 40 Research programme listings 44 NUI galWay—TakE a Closer look Finding your supervisor 54 How to apply 55 Research excellence 5 Postgraduate tuition fees 58 Why study at NUI Galway? 8 Funding and scholarships 59 Facilities for research 11 yOUr gRADUaTE EXPErIENCE rESEARCH AREaS International students 64 Biomedical Science and Engineering 15 Commercialising your research 65 Supporting your career development 66 Research Institutes & Centres— About Galway 67 Biomedical Science and Engineering 19 Contacts 68 Index 69 Informatics, Physical, and Computational Sciences 21 Campus map 72 Research Institutes & Centres—Informatics, Physical, and Computational Sciences 24 Environment, Marine, and Energy 25 Research Institutes & Centres—Environment, Marine, and Energy 30 Applied Social Sciences and Public Policy 31 Research Institutes & Centres—Applied Social Sciences and Public Policy 34 Humanities in Context 35 Research Institutes & Centres—Humanities in Context 39 Important: This hard copy prospectus lists all programmes on offer, at the time of going to press, for entry 2013. Details of new programmes on offer, subsequent to the printing of this book, will be listed online: www.nuigalway.ie/courses/research-postgraduate-programmes/ The information contained in this prospectus is, to the best of our knowledge, true and accurate at the time of publication. Any amendments to the published information will be included in the online prospectus. The content of the prospectus is for information purposes only and should not be viewed as the basis of a contract between students and the University. NUI Galway reserves the right to amend programmes or regulations at any time without notice; we may re-open previously closed programmes to accept applications in the event of programme quotas not being met. The University also reserves the right to withdraw programmes periodically for any reason (e.g., insufficient numbers). 3 www.nuigalway.ie Graduate Studies Office I would like to encourage you to consider entering NUI Galway for your research degree. For some of you, you will be familiar with our key research areas as you undertook your undergraduate studies here; for others you are considering NUI Galway for the first time. We hope that you will learn more about our University, our vibrant research community and the supports that are available to you in this prospectus. Our vision is to be a student-centred and research-intensive university of international standing, with Colleges and staff committed to excellence. Within this vibrant learning and scholarly community, we will support you in undertaking your further studies. Please take this opportunity to review our Programmes, Postgraduate Student Guide, Communicating priority research areas and your potential Research (Understanding the Knowledge Transfer Opportunities), research supervisors outlined in this PhD Viva Guide. research prospectus. • Support and mentoring: in addition to your supervisor(s), I will concentrate on other aspects of you will have a Graduate Research Committee to encourage and graduate education. My office works with advise you. the Deans of each of the Colleges, the Vice-President of Research, Vice-Deans • Monitoring your progress: a review of your progress will be for Graduate Studies, and administrators held within one year of your registration date and in each year of to continuously improve and expand our your programme of study. research programme offerings. There are Vice-Deans of Graduate • Discipline specific and generic modules: some with inter- Studies within each College who contribute to the coordination of university cooperation. Online courses are available and will be graduate training across the University. We have established clear provided on Blackboard, your virtual learning environment. To and mutually agreed University Guidelines for Research Degree facilitate this, you will automatically be registered for course code Programmes for both students and supervisors on the conduct of 1GST1, as well as, for your research degree. This Blackboard site research, which are available on our website www.nuigalway.ie/ will also be used to advise you about developments in course graduatestudies/Current_Students_2/guidelines.html We provision and other graduate-related events. have active collaborations with the Deans of Graduate Studies in the other six Irish universities and with many international universities We will support you in attaining the following objectives and research centres. during your research programme: • Advancing knowledge and scholarship while facilitating extensive There is a genuine collaborative spirit across the Colleges and a learning in a particular discipline or speciality. concern for the welfare of all our students. Our intimate and collegial • Becoming familiar with and achieving the highest international environment supports the development of close relationships with standards of scholarship. academic staff, who will work with you as mentors and partners in • Fostering a spirit of enquiry and a culture of scholarship, research creating new ideas and identifying and meeting new challenges and and creativity. opportunities. We encourage feedback from everybody involved in • Stimulating your broad education, cultural and physical graduate research and training in the University so that we can attain development, and well-being. and maintain the highest standards. Together with the Deans of • Contributing to the development of research-led teaching to College, Vice-Deans of Graduate Studies, your Supervisor(s) and the undergraduate students. Graduate Research Committee, we will endeavour to support your research through the following activities. I wish you every success in your research programme and look forward to welcoming you to NUI Galway. • Orientation: to welcome you to NUI Galway campus and to provide helpful information. • Induction: in all relevant aspects of research masters and PhD programmes, including the preparation of research plans, performance monitoring and examination procedures. lucy Byrnes Dean of graduate Studies • Publications: University Guidelines for Research Degree www.nuigalway.ie/graduatestudies/ 4 NUI Galway Research Postgraduate Prospectus 2013–14 Research excellence Research at NUI Galway is forward-thinking and global in scale. launch of the Ryan institute for maRine, Today we are leading the field in a wide range of areas, including stem eneRgy and environmental ReseaRch cell and gene therapy research, human rights law, environmental change and web science. NUI Galway launched a new research institute for marine, energy and environmental research this year. The Ryan Institute brings At NUI Galway, we are focused on translational research that has a together 300 researchers to confront some of the most important positive impact on society. Our scientists, engineers and scholars and pressing environmental and energy issues in the 21st century, are shaping public policy on everything from economic recovery including food and energy security, climate change and increasing to human rights, from policies for children to the aged and the competition for natural resources, that require solutions-based development of more effective treatments for a number of diseases. integrated scientific, technical, economic and policy research. Such research has a direct impact on our society. The Ryan Institute’s The standard of research has secured large amounts of funding for location near the Atlantic Ocean is a strong driver of its research the University and our research output has gained international priorities, and students benefit from access to unique facilities and prestige. These are successes that over 3,500 postgraduate students, global expertise. many of them travelling from all over the world, can both benefit from and contribute towards as graduate students at NUI Galway. ReseaRch Funding and Output NUI Galway is Ireland’s most successful university for commercialisation of research and has consistently out-performed every other Irish university in terms of technology transfer. Notable achievements in 2011 alone include: • The creation of four start-up companies leading to high tech job creation • The licensing of 19 technologies to both Irish and international companies • 47 new inventions disclosed • 8 new patent applications At the launch of the Ryan Institute with Public Symposium was Professor Colin • 19 licence and option agreements Brown, Director of the Ryan Institute, NUI Galway, and Máire Geoghegan- • 26 R&D contracts with industrial contribution greater then Quinn,
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