![]()


Two sides to every story. Image by Sarah Murphy.
The College has 200 staff and almost 4,500 students across ten Schools that bring together a broad range of disciplines including the social sciences, psychology, geography and philosophy.
The College is a prolific research centre, with its staff members responsible for a vast amount of pioneering research, which is extensively published in leading academic journals and books.
Academics from the College have received research awards from the Irish Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Royal Irish Academy, North-South Bodies and public agencies across Ireland and Europe. The College offers a wide range of challenging and socially relevant programmes at graduate level. It also has a large body of doctoral students and has established a Human Sciences Graduate School to spearhead postgraduate studies and build further on the College’s excellent reputation for research.
The College has links to many universities and research institutes worldwide. Within UCD, it is aligned with the UCD Geary Institute, one of Ireland’s leading social science institutes.
The UCD College of Human Sciences includes the following 10 Schools: