Find a Project, Subject Areas & Themes
As a graduate student at TU Dublin, you will engage in a structured, research-based programme of education, which includes activities that help you to acquire a range of specialist and transversal skills. All of our graduate students follow their own individual research work-programme, making an original contribution to knowledge, under the guidance of expert and committed supervision, in state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary, research environments.
The PhD Programme at TU Dublin is a structured programme of research and includes activities that support the acquisition of a range of specialist and transversal skills. The early stages of the programme are also applicable to Masters (MPhil) and Diploma (PgDip(Res)) programmes and our research programmes have smart specialisations in:
- Environment, Energy & Health
- Information, Communications & Media Technologies
- New Materials & Devices
- Society, Culture & Enterprise
There are four main elements to the research programme at TU Dublin:
- Element 1 - Original Research
- Element 2 - Research Plans
- Element 3 - Transversal Skills
- Element 4 - Discipline Skills
As a graduate research student you will complete your specialised research project in interdisciplinary research environments and simultaneously develop a range of discipline specific and transversal skills and competencies utilizable by industry and the professions, including:
- Information Retrieval
- Research Integrity
- Research Methods
- Project Management
- Work-Based Learning
Information on how to apply!
PhD opportunities are available at TU Dublin in many subject areas.
Interested candidates can submit an Expression of Interest form for our Research Programme. They can propose their own project or choose a project proposed by one of our expert supervisors in one our Research Institutes, Centres and Groups.
Current Funded Projects
College of Sciences and Health:
Developing an Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies Preparedness Plan MPhil project - Application deadline 24th June 2022
College Of Engineering and Built Environment:
- Development of an integrated water quality model for predicting indicators of Harmful Algal Blooms in inland and coastal waters MPhil project - Application deadline 23rd May 2022
- Kinematic Measurement Applied to NeuroGeriatrics Application deadline 10th June 2022
Current Self-Funded Projects
College of Arts and Tourism:
- An evaluation of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
- An exploration of Sustainable Tourism Indicators
- The Nonfiction Writing of a North American Fiction Writer
College Of Engineering and Built Environment:
- Professional Skills in Engineering Programmes An Assessment of student outcomes from pedagogical practices in Ireland
- Beyond regulated energy – Climate change impacts on long-term building performance
- Collaborative Public Works Contracts Using BIM
- Delivering productive and healthy working environments
- Merging BIM Authoring Tools and Standard Methods of Measurement in Ireland
- Using BIM to Support Commercially Viable Building Projects
- Energy Cloud Diverting free clean otherwise wasted renewable energy to households
- Sustainable Buildings Developing an energy model to inform national renovation strategies
College of Business:
- Assessing the Economic Risks of Climate Change
- Legal cartels, Mergers and Acquisitions
- Optimized Lattice Models and Machine Learning for Option Pricing
- Optimizing market regulation and its enforcement
- Understanding the World Major Economic and Financial Crises
- Critical Management Studies
- An Integrated Simulation-based Gamification Framework
- Entrepreneurship
- Knowledge Management and the Nature of University-Industry Relationships
- Work & Organisational Psychology
- A Hierarchical Geodemographic Classification of the Irish Population
- The transforming retail structure of the Republic of Ireland 1933 to Present
College of Sciences and Health:
- Development of human serum proteomics using vibrational spectroscopy for early disease diagnostics
- Investigating the Mechanism of Copper-based Chemotherapeutic Complexes Under Controlled Oxygen conditions
- Investigating the role of cognitive load modelling for enhancing user experience (UX) assessment
- Modelling the construct of human mental workload with computational techniques for human-computer interaction
- Satellite Clouds
- Glucosidase for novel glycoside synthesis
- Novel Lipases for Green Chemistry Synthesis of Lipopeptides nucleotides
- Plastics degradation by novel Lipase
- Redox Biocatalysis in Deep Eutectic Solvents
- Design, Development and Pharmacological Evaluation of Novel Bioactive Benzocycloalkanones
- Biological Evaluation of Ruthenium (II) complexes Targeted against Breast Cancers (BRUT BC)
- Synthesis of Targeted Ruthenium (II) therapeutics against Breast Cancers (STRUT BC)
- Cosmological Models with Real Gases
- Thermal and magnetohydrodynamic effects on fluid mixing
- Sustainable Food Packaging Development
- Formulation and application of natural hygiene coatings
The International Doctoral Programme at TU Dublin is ideal for academic staff in international universities and higher-education institutions or any professional who wishes to undertake a PhD while continuing to work.
Are you ready to start your PhD project but do not meet the minimum English language requirements? You can now enrol on our PhD Bridging Programme, a 12-week intensive programme developed especially for students who need further English language preparation to progress to their PhD programmes.
TU Dublin welcomes PhD students from other universities to study or conduct part of their research with us for a brief period of time. While delighted to assist them in their research, we also appreciate the enrichment that such students can bring to our research community.