Current Opportunities

• PhD studentship in Microbial Fuel Cells for Wastewater Treatment
• North-South Postgraduate Research Scholarships
• NCSR Postgraduate Research Studentship
• Irish Separation Science Cluster (ISSC): MSc Research Opportunity
• The Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Research Scholarship Programme 2010/11

Dublin City University is a research-led University which has developed its own internationally recognised centres of excellence that have substantive collaborative links with leading universities and industrial partners. These research centres have transcended traditional boundaries and have been extended to include combinations of academic disciplines such as biotechnology, electronic engineering, physics, chemistry, business and humanities. Staff at DCU have had major success in winning external competitive project-centred research funds and securing large scale research collaborations with industrial partners.

For research opportunities that currently exist within research centres/faculties visit the following: -

Research by Centres

DCU’s key Research Centres:

• National Centres
• University Designated Research Centres (UDRCs)
• Others

Research by Faculty

• Faculty of Computing and Engineering
• Faculty of Science and Health
• Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
• DCU Business School

Funding Agencies

Both the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) offer a number of graduate opportunities each year.