Graduate Research Student Welcome 2025/26

A warm UCD welcome to all our incoming graduate research students!

We are delighted to have you commence your graduate research programme with us.

UCD Graduate Studies invites all incoming graduate students on a research programme (i.e Doctoral, MD and Research Master’s degree programmes) to attend our graduate orientation programme on Wednesday, 17th September 2025 from 10:00am to 12:00 in A&L GoodbodyTheatre(L023) on the ground floor of the UCD Sutherland School of Law. Tea/coffeewill be served from 9:30am, lunch at 12 noon. This event is intended to give research students a helpful overview of key information and supports at UCD as well as an opportunity for you to meet other incoming research students from across the University.

Register here

• UCD Graduate Welcome Guide 
• Graduate Orientation
• Check in with your School about programme-level orientation
• UCD New Students - a dedicated website for new students
• Research Student Handbook
• Follow UCD Graduate Studies on (opens in a new window)X or (opens in a new window)LinkedIn for latest updates
• The student events calendar remains active, we expect a lot of events to appear over the coming weeks