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 available to you below.

Seminars, workshops and supports provided by Graduate Studies 

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 2025

2 seminars/workshops will be delivered in Spring 2025 

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

The seminars/workshop are

Course code: SUPSTUD

April 30th: 10:00-13:00 THB G-010 Seminar Room (Graduate Studies/RDC, includes a buffet-style lunch)
Seminar: Research Student Supervision at University of Galway

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

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Course code: TDRIV

May 1st: 14:00-16:00 Online via Zoom (Hugh Kearns iThinkWell)
Workshop: Challenges in Research Supervision

  • Mental Health
  • Supporting Writing 
  • Supervisory Teams
  • Disagreements and Clashes

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CELT courses

The Centre for Excellence in Learning & Teaching offer a module (CEL6103) on Research Supervision & Development as part of their course offerings in support of professional development.

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IUA Research Supervisor Symposium

DCU hosted the 2nd annual IUA symposium on Research Supervision on May 17th 2024. Details are here

There will be a 3rd annual IUA symposium in Maynooth on Thursday June 12th 2025.

Details soon to be published

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 ‘Maynooth symposium’ as subject to request support for attendance at the event.