Welcome to Postgraduate Education

Trinity College School of Medicine is an international leader in postgraduate education. The School provides a vibrant environment for postgraduate study, and currently has over 600 registered postgraduate students. The School offers 23 taught MSc/Diploma programmes spanning a broad spectrum of medical and scientific disciplines, and research students work towards the degrees of PhD, MSc, MD or MCh.

Research activities within the School are focused in five major thematic areas, Molecular Medicine, Neuroscience, Human Performance & Physical Medicine, Population Health, and Integrative Medicine and Surgery, and research is conducted in state of the art facilities on the main Trinity campus, and in our affiliated teaching hospitals. There is a major emphasis on Translational Research in the School, where research discoveries made in the laboratory can be advanced to a clinical setting to benefit human health.

Postgraduate activities within the School are co-ordinated by the Postgraduate Teaching and Learning Office; Postgraduate Education in the Trinity Centre for Health Sciences in St. James's Hospital.

Postgraduate Team

Emer Guinan, Research Fellow, Physiotherapy

Dr. Emer Guinan

Director of Postgraduate Teaching and Learning

Professor Stephen Maher

Associate Director in Postgraduate Teaching and Learning (CPD development)

Dr Michael Carthy

Associate Director of Postgraduate Teaching and Learning (Fellowships)

Dr Tony McElligott

Associate Director of Postgraduate Teaching and Learning (PhD coordination)

Dara O'Mahony

Postgraduate Manager

Majella Moloney

Deputy Postgraduate Manager

Beth Whitney

Postgraduate Administrator

Niamh Delanty

Climate Action & Sustainability Training Manager

Kristal MacNamara

Executive Officer

Archita Choudhury

Executive Officer

Kissila Moreira De Assis

Executive Officer

School of Medicine, Postgraduate Teaching and Learning Committee PTLC

The membership of PTLC is a drawn from many disciplines in our school and is thus reflective of the rich diversity of education and research within TCD Medicine. The committee is focused on improving the postgraduate teaching and learning experience in our School, be it in postgraduate taught courses or for our postgraduate research students.

The PTLC meets on the third Wednesday of most months.

PTLC Membership 26/27

Dr Emer Guinan (Chair)

Prof Stephen Maher

Dr Michael Carty

Prof Deirdre Connolly

Prof Ross McManus

Prof Johannes Wagener

Dr Julie Renwick

Dr Alison Keogh

Prof Patrick Walsh

Prof Catherine Darker

Dr Cuisle Forde

Dr Emer Barrett

Dr Elizabeth Forde

Dr Nollaig Bourke

Prof Román Romero-Ortuno

Dr Stephen Finn

Dr David Mothersill

Dr Tony McElligott

Student Representative

Director PGTL

Surgery - Associate Director in Postgraduate Teaching and Learning (CPD Development)

Clinical Microbiology - Associate Director, Fellowships

Occupational Therapy

Clinical Medicine

Clinical Microbiology

Clinical Medicine

Public Health and Primary Care

Physiotherapy

Radiation Therapy

Medical Gerontology

Histopathology

Clinical Medicine

Haematology

Currently Vacant

Contact details

The School of Research and Postgraduate Education,
Old Stone Building,
Trinity Centre for Health Sciences,
St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8
Tel: + 353 1 896 3556/3557; E-mail: gradapps@tcd.ie