Each year, senior researchers from across the School and affiliated clinical sites submit potential student projects to the SSRA committee for consideration. A list of available research projects is compiled on a rolling basis from mid-November each year and will be available here. Students can then contact potential supervisors.

This process connects high-level research to undergraduate students. Our Medicine, Radiography, BHLS and Physiology graduates are encouraged to see themselves not just as future healthcare practitioners but also as researchers and investigative scientists.

1. The SSRA homepage has an Available Projects window
2. This window will bring you to a Google page with all available projects in PDF format
3. Having chosen a project, email the project Supervisor with a brief explanation of your interest in the research. You must include the completed Student Project Application Form which can be found on the Student Hub Page of the SSRA Website.
4. Wait for the Supervisor to respond to your email (this can take a few weeks in some instances)
5. If the Supervisor chooses you, please email the project number and confirmation email from the Supervisor to ssra@ucd.ie

National Haemophilia Council Medical Students Project Requirements for 2023 for Haemophilia & Other Related Bleeding Disorders

Background

The National Haemophilia Council (NHC) was set up by the Government, under Statutory Instrument mechanism (SI No. 451 of 2004) in response to the recommendations of the Report of the Lindsey Tribunal.  The NHC reports directly to the Minister for Health on all matters concerning the delivery of health care to people in Ireland with Haemophilia or other related Bleeding Disorders.

The Council is composed of a Chairperson, together with Medical, Nursing, and other related Health Care professionals, representatives of the Department of Health and two representatives from the patient organisation, the Irish Haemophilia Society.

Undergraduate Medical Student Elective

To encourage the involvement of undergraduate medical students in the area of Haemophilia and other related disorders, the Council decided to create 4 awards, each of €1,000.00 for student projects in this area. The Council encourages the presentation and / or publication of the completed project at a relevant National and/or International meeting or in a relevant publication.

Eligibility

Application can be made by 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th year medical student from any Medical School in Ireland. The Project must be undertaken with guidance and agreement of a Haematology Consultant involved in the provision of comprehensive care to patients with haemophilia or other related bleeding disorders in Ireland.  The Medical Students need to get agreement from the appropriate treatment centre before they submit their application to the NHC

The Comprehensive Care Centres are located in the following Hospitals:

Professor Niamh O’Connell, Director, National Coagulation Centre, St. James’s Hospital, James’s Street, Dublin 8

Email: ncc@stjames.ie

Dr Beatrice Nolan, Consultant Haematologist, National Paediatric Haemophilia Centre, Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin, Cooley Rd, Crumlin, Dublin 12, D12 N512 .

Email: haemophilia.dept@olchc.ie

Dr Cleona Duggan, Consultant Haematologist, Comprehensive Care Centre, University Hospital Cork, Wilton, Cork

Email: Cleona.Duggan@hse.ie

Professor Niamh O’Connell, Director, National Coagulation Centre, St. James’s Hospital, James’s Street Dublin 8, for the Haemophilia Treatment Centre based at University Hospital Galway, Newcastle Rd, Galway, H91 YR71

Email: ncc@stjames.ie

Application Requirements

Applications (short curriculum vitae and cover letter describing the potential benefits anticipated from participation) should be made in the first instance to the Director of the relevant Haemophilia Comprehensive Care Centre / Haemophilia Treatment Centre. Each centre will be responsible to identify a suitable candidate and agree an abstract for the proposed project.

The applicant should submit the agreed abstract, of no more than 500 words, giving an overview of the proposed project to the National Haemophilia Council by 5pm on Monday 17thApril 2023.

The submissions should be sent to the following email address: grainne.leach@hse.ie

If you have any queries please contact:

Ms Gráinne Leach,

Chief Officer,

National Haemophilia Council,

Health Service Executive,

Mill Lane,

Palmerstown,

Dublin 20, D20 KH63
087 6546463

grainne.leach@hse.ie

The Council will inform the successful applicants before Monday 1st May 2023.  The decision of the National Haemophilia Council is final.

Final Submissions

The report of the completed projects should be submitted to the National Haemophilia Council by the 31st October, 2023 

An annual award of the “Clare O’Connor Summer Student Scholarship in Respiratory Research” to the value of €2,000, will be made to a UCD medical student for excellence in Respiratory Research (laboratory based) within the UCD Belfield Campus and/or its affiliated University Hospitals.

The Clare O’Connor Summer Student Scholarship in Respiratory Research awards have been created thanks to generous donations by a number of individuals via Prof Muiris X FitzGerald, former Dean of Medicine and founder of the SVUH Cystic Fibrosis Unit.

Dr Clare O’Connor was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medicine, UCD and led a major research team at Woodview House from 1981 to 2003. In 2008 she was appointed Graduate School Director in the UCD Conway Institute until her retirement in 2014. Her distinguished research and teaching career centered on applied immunological, biochemical and genetic research on respiratory diseases in conjunction with Professor MX FitzGerald, Professor Seamus Donnelly and other respiratory investigators at St. Vincent’s University Hospital. She secured major research grants in Ireland and from the EU Concerted Action Programmes. She led the Euro Lung Consortium, which involved UCD and the Universities of Edinburgh, Nottingham, Siena and Leiden.

Medical students are highly encouraged to independently seek out projects related to respiratory medicine. If your project falls within that remit, please complete the Clare O'Connor Application Form (SSRA student hub) and submit it to ssra@ucd.ie for review by September 1st 2023.

Deadline September 1^st 2023.

The selection of the successful student/project for this award is based on an interview process where shortlisted students each present their research projects proposal and a 3 minute question and answer session with a panel of UCD academics and clinicians.

About the Kathleen Lynn Summer Student Scholarship

This annual award is in memory of Dr. Kathleen Lynn (b. 1874-d.1955), a remarkable medical graduate of UCD/St Cecilia at the end of the 19th century. Her extraordinary life is detailed in her biography - Kathleen Lynn: Irishwoman, Patriot, Doctor by Margaret O’hOgartaigh. Dr Lynn was Chief Medical Officer in James Connolly’s Citizen Army, a revolutionary who occupied Dublin’s City Hall in the Easter Week Rising of 1916 and was imprisoned and deported to Britain. Later, she was elected as a Sinn Fein TD in the 1918 and 1923 elections. She performed pioneering medical work in St. Ultan’s Hospital Dublin, which she co-founded with Dr Dorothy Stopford-Price and was a leader in the prevention and care of tuberculosis in children. A Lecture Theatre in the UCD Health Sciences Centre is named in her honour.

The annual award of the “Kathleen Lynn Summer Student Scholarship in the History of Medicine/Humanities in Medicine” to the value of €2,000, will be made to one UCD medical student each year, who is sponsored conjointly by the UCD School of Medicine and the UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, UCD School of History. (The applicant can work with another School in UCD College of Arts and Humanities).

Who is eligible?

Any UCD medical Students enrolled in either the UEM or GEM programmes.

How to apply?

UCD medical Students must email the following to: ssra@ucd.ie

1. Personal statement detailing your interest in the History of Medicine (250 words maximum). Please include the topic you wish to investigate for your SSRA project and why. Examples of topics include: history of epidemic disease in Ireland (such as polio, 1918 flu pandemic, Tuberculosis (TB)), history of chronic diseases such as cancer, or the history of psychiatry in Ireland. These are examples only to provide applicants with some guidance.

2. Short CV (max 2 pages)    

Student applications will be assessed by members of the SSRA Committee and a representative from the UCD Centre for History of Medicine in Ireland. A formal virtual interview process will take place in April and a student will be chosen for the Scholarship.

Deadline

Friday March 3rd 2023

Questions?

Please contact: ssra@ucd.ie

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