- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 4 to 6 Years
Course details
In most but not all instances, your stipend, university fees, consumable, equipment and travel costs will be paid from a research grant from a national or international grant agency or charity. Your supervisor usually competitively obtains this grant, but students can also obtain their own scholarships, such as from the Irish Research Council (IRC). Scholarship awards, such as the John Hume Scholarship, are also available from Maynooth University via an annual call. There is usually no support available for extra time required to complete your degree, so you should try and manage your research and thesis writing to take place within the allocated timeframe.
Upon entering the programme each student will be assigned two additional mentors, an Advisor and an Assessor. The Advisor provides additional mentorship for the student throughout the four-year programme and is someone the student can discuss issues with in addition to their supervisor. The Assessor is a member of staff who will provide an annual constructive critique of the students work programme and will aid, together with the Advisor, in outlining possible future research plans.
In addition to the research project, training is provided through compulsory attendance of a variety of generic and transferable skills as well as subject specific modules. For example, the established Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning will provide research students with experience in practical class demonstrating and teaching and learning methodologies. Training in subject specific skills is provided through modules offered either through the Biology Department or as part of the Dublin Region Higher Education Alliance (DRHEA). Advanced modules in many life science topics are already established within the Biomedical Sciences and Chemistry strands of the DRHEA provides a variety of to students on the programme. Finally, research students will be encouraged to attend at least one international conference during their four-year programme, at which they will be expected to present an oral or poster presentation.
Entry Requirements
Applicants must have a recognised primary degree that is considered equivalent to Irish University primary degree level. Usually a first or upper second class honours degree in a relevant biological subject is required. Additional qualifications such as an MSc degree or relevant work experience may also be taken into consideration.
Minimum English language requirements:
- IELTS: 6.5 minimum overall score
- TOEFL (Paper based test): 585
- TOEFL (Internet based test): 95
- PTE (Pearson): 62
Module
- ADVANCED SPECIALIST MODULE - INTERNATIONAL
- MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS- MASTER CLASS
- COMPREHENSIVE X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
- ADVANCED NMR & MASS SPECTROMETRY
- MOLECULAR NEUROIMMUNOLOGY
- BACTERIAL INTERACTIONS WITH THE HOST EPITHELIUM
- INTRODUCTION TO ANIMAL CELL CULTURE THEORY
- INTRODUCTION TO 'OMIC' AND ADVANCED IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES
- DRUG DEVELOPMENT
- MOLECULAR ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
- ADVANCED WORKSHOP/COURSE/SUMMER SCHOOL/MASTERCLASS
- INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
- ADVANCED ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES
- INTRODUCTION TO IMMUNOLOGY
- ADVANCES IN INFECTION BIOLOGY
- IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
- ADVANCED IMMUNOLOGY
- BIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
- ADVANCED DIAGNOSTICS AND THERAPEUTICS
- VACCINES AND ADJUVANTS
- PATENTING, EVALUATION AND LICENSING OF BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS
- CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE AND POSTER PRESENTATION
- CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE AND ORAL PRESENTATION
- ELECTROANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY-MODERN TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS
- NEUROIMMUNOLOGY
- NEUROIMAGING TECHNOLOGY
- MOLECULAR ONCOLOGY
- APPLIED AND MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY
- ADVANCED SPECIALIST MODULE - INTERNATIONAL
- PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE IN POSTGRADUATE TEACHING & LEARNING : TUTORS & DEMONSTRATORS
- INNOVATION AND RESEARCH COMMERCIALISATION
- INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
- MOLECULAR PARASITOLOGY AND DISEASES OF POVERTY
- PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYABILITY MODULE
- FINDING INFORMATION FOR YOUR THESIS
- ACADEMIC WRITING MODULE
- RESEARCH PRACTICE AND INTEGRITY (OPEN TO STUDENTS WITHIN THE FACULTY OF SCIENCE & ENGINEERING ONLY)
- CREATIVE THINKING & PROBLEM SOLVING
- SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: MAKING A REAL DIFFERENCE
- ADVANCED COMMUNICATION SKILLS (PUBLICATION)
Course Location
About Maynooth University
This means that students at Maynooth benefit from an international outlook, and those of you who wish to study abroad for a semester or an academic year during yTheir degree have a network of connections to tap in to. During the cTheirse of their academic degree students from Maynooth have studied subjects such as Law at Boston College, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Music in the University of Vienna.
Maynooth has many shared research projects with universities around the world.
- In the Dept of Psychology, Prof Dermot Barnes-Holmes is working with academics in Columbia University in New York to predict the success of cocaine abuse treatment.
- Mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy is working with immunologists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in MelbTheirne, Australia to analyse cell behaviTheir in a study that could have significant implications for Their understanding and treatment of diseases like Coeliac disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.
- Historian Dr Tom O Connor is working with colleagues from the University of Alcala and the Irish Colleges in Spain, discovering the hidden stories of Irish people who got caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.
