Student Support

Support Services

Student Services offer  a range of services. Please visit the relevant webpages (below) for details or browse our Student FAQs

Access Centre

Current registered full-time Mature Students

• Coffee with Mature Students Officer - an email will be sent weekly regarding coffee times with your Mature Students Officer (MSO) - Kathleen Hartigan
• Appointments can be scheduled with your MSO, please email Kathleen at maturestudents@nuigalway.ie

HEAR / Access / FE Undergraduates

Please contact us with any concerns,

• Access and FE undergraduates, please email: access@nuigalway.ie
• HEAR Undergraduates, please email: HEAR@nuigalway.ie   

Staff are back on campus to assist and support students and prospective students where possible. If you need to contact a member of staff in the Access Centre, please email access@nuigalway.ie

Diploma in Foundation Studies Students SFD1 & SFD8

• Details of coffee times will be put up on Blackboard and emailed to all Mature Registered Students.

Queries from Prospective Mature Students interested in Full-time Undergraduate Study

• Please email maturestudents@nuigalway.ie  for an appointment or email for advice and information on applying for a full-time degree as a Mature Student. Mature Students Guide and Entrance assessment information at www.nuigalway.ie/mature
•  Open Day October 7^th & 8^th Details at: www.nuigalway.ie/opendays
•  Public Mature Students Information Evening will be held in January 2023.  Details at www.nuigalway.ie/mature/public-events

Accommodation and Welfare

• The Accommodation and Welfare team assist you to find advice and support on accommodation and financial matters.
• To contact us in Accommodation and Welfare please click here.
• We are available from Monday – Friday (10.00 – 16.00)

Career Guidance

The Career Development Centre aim to provide a quality career guidance and information service focused on facilitating and empowering you to manage your own career development and make effective career transition

• If you are a student (not on placement) log a query on Careers Connect and one of the team will get back to you http://www.nuigalway.ie/career-development-centre/careersconnect/
• If you are a student on placement email your query to placement@nugialway.ie and your Placement Officer will respond
• If you are an employer email employers@nuigalway.ie and a team member will get back to you.

For all general queries email careers@nuigalway.ie

Chaplaincy

• The Chaplaincy service offers pastoral care, welfare support and spiritual guidance to the students and staff of NUI Galway.
• The Chaplaincy Service is available to support students and staff remotely during normal working hours and outside of working hours, when required. The Chaplaincy Office on 6 Distillery Road is closed at present. However, we are available to continue to meet students to deal with an urgent or emergency situation. We can be contacted as follows:

Counselling

• You can consult with a member of the NUI Galway counselling service for any issue. We provide skilled listeners who have experience dealing with all the challenges students encounter
• NUI Galway Student Counselling is continuing to operate, remotely online or by phone. For all current users of the Student Counselling Service we are continuing to offer counselling online.
• For enquiries or to set up an online/phone assessment please email: counselling@nuigalway.ie

Disability Support Service

•  If you are a student who is already registered with the Disability Support Service, you can email your Disability Advisor (as detailed on your LENS report)

•  If you are a student who is already registered with the Disability Support Service, and you require assistive technology support, you can email your Assistive Technology Officer

•  If you are a student who wishes to register with the Disability Support Service, you can complete our online registration form

•  For all other disability support related queries, please email disabilityservice@nuigalway.ie.  Please note that there may be delays in responding to emails, as we are receiving a high volume of emails at present. However, we will do all that we can to keep such delays to a minimum.

Societies

SocsBox Virtual Help Desk Monday – Thursday, 2pm - 5pm & 6pm - 8pm at https://bit.ly/3cCWc2B

All society activity on campus is suspended until Áras na Mac Léinn reopens. However, Societies are running virtual events. The SocsBox is contactable by email:

• SocsBox: socsbox@socs.nuigalway.ie
• Societies Officer: socsofficer@socs.nuigalway.ie

Áras na Mac Léinn rooms, The Hub and Hub Central are currently closed.

• You can join Societies by logging into your student account on yourspace.nuigalway.ie
• Society banking online will be facilitated remotely. Society information will be on www.socs.nuigalway.ie.
• www.nuigstudents.ie will be updated regularly with news on extracurricular activities.

Student Health Unit

• Students are not permitted to enter the Student Health Unit at present without first contacting the practice.
• Arrange an appointment online now via this online form.
• If you are experiencing COVID-19 related symptoms, please read the advice HERE.
• This service is monitored from Monday to Friday ONLY. For Urgent queries please phone (091) 492604.

Safe Campus

The Safe Campus initiative is designed to raise awareness about maintaining a safe campus and raising awareness of personal safety wherever we are.

Active* Consent

NUI Galway are leading a national conversation on sexual consent training. Students are welcome to participate in research, workshops and engage with a fantastic programme that is helping to transform our relationships. 

Success Quiz

NUI Galway have designed the ultimate First Year quiz.