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Postgraduate Renewal Programme

The Renewal Programme is ambitious in its intent on delivering a roadmap that enables Trinity to provide a world-class experience, delivering highly skilled, highly employable independent graduates, equipped to tackle the challenges of the coming decades, underpinned by a supportive and nurturing environment that enables them to fulfil their potential and be impactful global citizens.

Since June 2021, the Postgraduate Renewal Programme has been working collaboratively across the College community with students and staff (academic and professional) to achieve its ambitions.

Postgraduate Renewal Programme, Horizon 2 In Horizon 2 we will enhance our processes and activities, plan for effective change, and implement and review any changes introduced. Learn More

Update from the Dean of Graduate Studies

The PG Renewal Programme is now heading into its third year. Given the scale of the ambition for change in our postgraduate activities, we broke our workplan down into three horizons. Horizon 1 focused on Clarifying and Simplifying some of our core activities (see our You Said, We Did page). Some highlights included the launch of the Trinity Research Doctorate Awards, and Trinity’s first Supervisor - Research Student Agreement which is currently being piloted.

In Horizon 2 our aim has been to Enhance our processes and activities so that the student and staff experience is improved and we can deliver on our vision of offering a 'stimulating, inclusive and sustainable environment where curious minds and creative thinkers thrive'. Enhancing processess and activities takes time, as we need to ensure we understand the relevant issues, plan for effective change, and implement and review any changes introduced. We have devised a Way of Working to help guide us. A key focus is on our research student activities, from how we recruit students to the ways we support them and monitor and guide their progress. We are also developing a Trinity Blueprint for a Triple I postgraduate education, to ensure every postgraduate student has an opportunity to engage with Interdisciplinary, Intersectoral and International experiences. We will continue to field-test many ideas and initiatives from Horizon 1 and Horizon 2, and we will be reaching out to staff and students for your feedback. We're also open to hearing from you at any time. Share your ideas, your pet irritations, and your great experiences. We want to ensure that the changes we make do not disrupt things that are working well and delivering for everyone. For all your suggestions, pgrenewal@tcd.ie is open for business!

Ní neart go cur le chéile – Our strength comes from working together,

Professor Martine Smith
Dean of Graduate Studies