EDI Student Support

The School of Medicine (SoM) fully supports the UCD strategic objectives to promote a culture of dignity and respect and wellbeing and to promote greater understanding and engagement with Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) across the university. Our overarching aim is to ensure that everyone in the School staff and students alike can reach their full potential. 

The EDI committee in our School has a student EDI group, led by Dr. Melinda Halasz. This group includes both undergraduate and graduate students and aims to promote equality, diversity and inclusion for all students in the School of Medicine. The group reviews all aspects of EDI in the SoM, identifies barriers in EDI and provides solutions to build support for students. 

We aim to:

  • Promote a sense of communityStudent Lesson
  • Build a diverse and inclusive environment for our students 
  • Gender balancing
  • Support students in realising their academic potential
  • Promote the visibility of female role models in male-dominated disciplines such as Surgery, Emergency Medicine
  • Support careers of students
  • Improve awareness of how to report instances of unfair treatment for students.
  • Student members promote awareness of EDI among themselves.
  • Engage in outreach activities and initiatives that support widening participation in medicine.

If you are interested in joining or you would like to discuss anything, contact melinda.halasz@ucd.ie or edi.medicine@ucd.ie. We would love to hear from you.

Available Supports

There are a range of supports available to you at UCD:

If you are experiencing difficulties balancing personal and academic issues and need to speak to someone within the School of Medicine, please contact Kathleen Kiely, Medicine, Radiography and BHLS Student Advisor T: +353 1 716 6681 E: kathleen.kiely@ucd.ie.

If you are a Graduate Research Student, please contact Eamonn McHugh, Graduate Research Student Advisor T: +353 1 716 1875 E: eamonn.mchugh@ucd.ie.

Interested in helping others? Become a Dignity and Respect Student Ambassador.

UCD is committed to supporting race and ethnic equality and issued a statement expressing our commitment to addressing racism and discrimination. You can read more on this here. 

If you wish to report an off-campus incident, please refer to INAR (Irish Network Against Racism).

You may also wish to read the following How to be a Good Ally to People Facing Discrimination by Ebun Joseph, UCD.

If you wish to report an incident that occurred at UCD, please refer to:

Interested in becoming a role model to your peers? Become a Dignity and Respect Student Ambassador.