The Student Summer Research Awards Committee invites the submission of project proposals for SSRA from mid-November to February each year. SSRA Projects are eight-week laboratory, clinical, patient-centred or educational research projects which are undertaken by our undergraduate students within the College of Health and Agricultural Sciences during the Summer trimester each year.

For the most part, we expect that SSRA projects will be exempt from full ethical review in UCD. Various types of projects will fall into this category. As some projects will require full ethical review by the UCD School of Medicine REC, please allow enough time for this to take place in advance of the project start date. 

Further information and relevant Ethics compliance forms for the UCD School of Medicine REC can be found HERE

Please note that SSRA students may not be insured unless UCD can verify that the proper ethics protocols have been followed. We thank you for your cooperation on this important matter.

On submission, your Project details will be reviewed by the SSRA Committee and we will contact you with a project number and details of next steps including ethics requirements.

After reviewing the project, students fill out an application form and will email the Supervisor directly with their interest. Supervisors can chose their student via the email application, CV or interview process.

You should consider the University's EDI Strategy when selecting your Student.

Only ONE student can be selected for each project - If more than one student has applied for a project, it is up to the supervisor to select the most appropriate candidate of choice.