Are you new to research student supervision or an experienced supervisor wishing to learn more about recent changes to doctoral education? Please find supports and workshops availalble to you below.

Seminars, workshops and supports provided by Graduate Studies 

Are you new to research student supervision or an experienced supervisor wishing to learn more about recent changes to doctoral education?

The Researcher Development Centre, hosts a wide range of supports to inform on, and develop, researcher supervision skills. For example the RDC provides access, through the Self-Paced Courses dashboard to the online Professional Skills for Research Leaders course and the Research Skills Toolkit course.

Supervisor Seminars & Workshops 2024

2 seminars/workshops will be delivered in April 2024 

Please book your attendance at each of these through the HR Learning and Development Course Registration via Core Portal.

The seminars/workshop are

April 9 9.30-12:30 Aula Maxima (includes a buffet-style lunch)
Seminar: Research Student Supervision at University of Galway

  • Galway Research Degree Regulations and Guidelines
  • Student & Supervisor Support and the Researcher Development Centre


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April 10 14:00-16:00 Online via Zoom
Workshop: Challenges in Research Supervision

  • Mental Health
  • Supporting Writing 
  • Supervisory Teams
  • Disagreements and Clashes
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IUA Research Supervisor Symposium

DCU is hosting the IUA symposium on Research Supervision on May 17th. Details are at here

Register for the event here.

Graduate Studies Office will support attendance at this event by re-imbursing the cost of public transport to/from the event. Please email donal.leech@universityofgalway.ie, using ‘DCU symposium’ as subject to request reimbursement.