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PhD applicants need an honours level degree (NFQ level 8) with a minimum of a 2H1 (second class honours, grade 1) to apply.

Master by Research applicants need an honours level degree (NFQ level 8) with a minimum of a 2H2 (...

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PhD applicants need an honours level degree (NFQ level 8) with a minimum of a 2H1 (second class honours, grade 1) to apply.

Master by Research applicants need an honours level degree (NFQ level 8) with a minimum of a 2H2 (second class honours, grade 2) to apply.

Check our qualification comparison website for equivalencies at https://www.ucc.ie/en/study/comparison/.

Check our English language requirements at https://www.ucc.ie/en/study/comparison/english/postgraduate/.

Although students generally choose a topic for their research from their degree discipline you are not restricted to your primary degree subjects.

Find a supervisory team
Once applicants know which area or topic they wish to research, they then need to find a supervisor. This site offers a list of academics listed under a wide range of schools/departments/disciplines http://research.ucc.ie/profiles/.

Applicants can also contact UCC Department/Schools relevant to that area of research and check the availability of appropriate supervisors https://www.ucc.ie/en/schoolsdepartments/ .

You must choose a supervisor and discuss your prospective research with them before applying. Your supervisor will let you know if you need to prepare a research proposal and will need to approve your proposal before you submit it. You may need to submit this proposal directly to the School/Department and/or submit it with your online application. Applicants who apply to research programmes in Arts, Celtics Studies and Social Sciences, Law and Medicine & Health are required to submit a research proposal of approximately 1,500 words, and in Business a proposal of approximately 500 words is required.

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Institutes & Centres Director/Head

APC Microbiome Institute
Professor Fergus Shanahan

ASSERT for Health Centre
Professor Barry O’Reilly

BioSciences Imaging Centre
Professor John Cryan
Dr André Toulouse

Cen...

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Institutes & Centres Director/Head

APC Microbiome Institute
Professor Fergus Shanahan

ASSERT for Health Centre
Professor Barry O’Reilly

BioSciences Imaging Centre
Professor John Cryan
Dr André Toulouse

Centre for Gerontology and Rehabilitation
Professor William Molloy

Centre for Research in Vascular Biology
Professor Noel Caplice

Cork Breast Research Group
Professor Mark Corrigan

Cork NeuroScience Centre
Professor Cora O’Neill

HRB Centre for Health & Diet Research
Professor Ivan Perry

HRB Clinical Research Facility at UCC
Professor Joe Eustace

Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT) Professor Geraldine Boylan

National Adult Nutrition Survey
Dr Janette Walton

National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre
Professor Richard Greene

Oral Health Services Research Centre
Professor Helen Whelton

Parkinson's Disease Research Cluster
Dr Sean O’ Sullivan