The Student Summer Research Awards
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.
Publications:
Have you hosted an SSRA Student in the past? We are asking past SSRA Supervisors to let us know of instances where research that their SSRA Student(s) took part in have been published. We are very interested in tracking and collating publications such as peer reviewed full research papers and review articles or conference proceedings, that past SSRA students have contributed to. You can submit this information HERE.
Supervisor Funding
The SSRA Programme can offer limited funding to support UCD supervisors who are hosting SSRA students. Funding MUST go towards experimental consumable costs linked to the project. Applications can be made via a link posted here from mid-November each year.
Supervisor Project Submission
Project details can be submitted via an Online Submission Form link, which is made available here from mid-November to February each year.