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Courses
Courses
Choosing a course is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make! View our courses and see what our students and lecturers have to say about the courses you are interested in at the links below.
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University Life
University Life
Each year more than 4,000 choose NUI Galway as their University of choice. Find out what life at NUI Galway is all about here.
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About NUI Galway
About NUI Galway
Since 1845, NUI Galway has been sharing the highest quality teaching and research with Ireland and the world. Find out what makes our University so special – from our distinguished history to the latest news and campus developments.
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Colleges & Schools
Colleges & Schools
NUI Galway has earned international recognition as a research-led university with a commitment to top quality teaching across a range of key areas of expertise.
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Research & Innovation
Research & Innovation
NUI Galway’s vibrant research community take on some of the most pressing challenges of our times.
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Business & Industry
Guiding Breakthrough Research at NUI Galway
We explore and facilitate commercial opportunities for the research community at NUI Galway, as well as facilitating industry partnership.
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Alumni, Friends & Supporters
Alumni, Friends & Supporters
There are over 90,000 NUI Galway graduates Worldwide, connect with us and tap into the online community.
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Community Engagement
Community Engagement
At NUI Galway, we believe that the best learning takes place when you apply what you learn in a real world context. That's why many of our courses include work placements or community projects.
Virtual Events
September - December 2021 - Online Events
Events: NUI Galway Virtual Information Evenings for 2021
Where: All information evenings will be held ONLINE.
Time: 7.00pm - 9.00pm for all evenings
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College of Business, Public Policy & Law (to also include Shannon College) |
11th November |
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College of Science and Engineering |
18th November |
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College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies (Including St Angela College) |
25th November |
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College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (Including St Angela College) |
2nd December |
Please REGISTER HERE.
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Event: Design Your Life – What’s this about?
When: 2nd Dec 2021 @12Noon via Zoom
Design is increasingly applied as a concept in business and society. However, while a profound question, how we design our lives can seem a challenging, even amorphous or elusive notion. To support a systematic approach to life design, Stanford University have developed an approach called Designing Your Life, which aims to provide a set of resources for systematically applying concepts and principles from design thinking, often used in product and technology development, to designing one’s life. Designing Your Life is not envisioned as a prescriptive methodology but rather a range of approaches that can be adapted to support a hopefully more informed understanding and enactment of career and life aspirations, goals and plans. Designing Futures is a new programme at NUI Galway, funded by the HEA’s Human Capital Initiative, which aims to contribute to students’ rounded, holistic development by coordinating a range of innovations to enhance their educational experience. These include a developmental support service for students, Success Coaching, as well as Designing Your Life. The focus of Designing Futures is to enhance our graduates’ employability, through promoting greater engagement with civic society, community and enterprise during their studies, while enhancing their overall education and preparedness for life in the challenging future now emerging, post-pandemic. This talk will explore the potential of design thinking and Designing Your Life at NUI Galway. Learn more about the framework, tools, and most importantly hear from our colleague Dr. Marc Hunsaker about how they integrated this wonderful programme at Berry College. We will also hear from the Student Success Coaches about how this is playing out at NUI Galway and some initial feedback from the early prototypes. |
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Event: Introduction to Vertically Integrated Projects at NUI Galway
When: 7th Dec 2021 @ 1PM via Zoom
Vertically Integrated Projects are longitudinal research projects addressing grand challenges in which UG students, often led by PG students, work in teams under the supervision of academic Principal Investigators. Students can take a VIP as an elective in one or several semesters, as their curriculum allows. VIPs were developed at Georgia tech and over 40 universities around the world have adopted them. They provide students with the opportunity to engage in a significant research project, learn and practise valuable professional skills and provide PIs with “free” manpower. In the NUI Galway model, students will be trained in research methods centrally, freeing up PIs to focus on mentoring actual research activity. Faculty from any and all disciplines are welcome to propose VIPs. Proposals for VIPs that involve input from several disciplines are especially welcome. The student applications will be managed centrally, enabling PIs to choose the best mix of students for their VIP from the pool of applicants. This event will provide examples of VIPs in other universities and some possibilities for VIPs at NUI Galway, and explain how VIPs will be managed. |
Register in advance for this meeting
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Event: Transdisciplinary Electives: what they are and how to get involved
When: 14th Dec 2021 @ 12Noon via Zoom
The Designing Futures programme is developing a set of for-credit transdisciplinary electives that enable students to develop “skills for life”: professional skills that will help them achieve their potential in their professional and personal lives. A special feature of these classes is their diversity: students from across the university learn together from academics drawn from across the university. In co-developing and co-teaching these electives, academics also learn from this transdisciplinary experience, and discover colleagues with similar research and teaching interests but from very different disciplines, and who bring very different and enriching perspectives to topics of mutual interest. This briefing session will feature the experiences of the class coordinators of the first two transdisciplinary electives to run: Introduction to Sustainability and Megatrends, and plans for further roll-out of additional electives. If you would like to know more about these electives, contribute to them or lead on the development of an elective that enhances a professional skill, this briefing session is for you. |
Register in advance for this meeting
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Event: Staff SOS Daily Wellness Webinar Series - Human Resources, NUI Galway
The HR office is currently running a series of webinars to support the mental health and wellbeing of its staff. For full listings and to book your place, please vist SOS Daily Wellness Webinar Series - Human Resources, NUI Galway.
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Event: Online Mindfulness Shared Practice
Dates & Times: Tuesdays & Fridays ongoing - 8:15am to 8:45am
These online shared practice of mindfulness sessions are open to staff, students and members of the public. If you have any family members or friends who may be interested in joining this practice, please feel free to share this link with them. Dr Eva Flynn lectures in the Discipline of General Practice in the College of Medicine, Nursing and Life Sciences at NUI Galway. Her interests lie in student well-being and she has taken a lead in introducing Mindfulness in the School of Medicine. She also works as a general practitioner in Mainstreet Clinic, Loughrea, County Galway.
Register: To join this session online, please copy and paste the following link into the GOOGLE CHROME browser. Please note INTERNET EXPLORER and FIREFOX will not open this link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/8864f09cd69a47329006d5fb1f2527e2