Training and Development

Registration for modules and workshops is specific to the particular strand.

Career Skills Workshops 

Places on the Careers Skills workshops can be booked via (opens in a new window)Careers Connect. There are no credits associated with these workshops.

Discipline-specific modules (i.e. credit-bearing modules delivered by a UCD School)

Details of each Colleges' registration method can be found on their own websites.

Innovation Academy Modules

If you are interested in taking a module offered by the Innovation Academy or would like to find out more, complete the online (opens in a new window)registration of interest form. There are credit-bearing modules and there will be assessment of the learning outcomes. 

Library/Data Management Workshops 

Register for Library workshops via the Booking Centre. There are no credits associated with these workshops, but if you attend it will be recorded on your transcript.

Structured PhD Workshops 

Information about Transferable Skills Workshops, including dates, times and venues of the workshops, are available on the Graduate Studies website. Register for Transferable Skills workshops via the Booking Centre.

There are no credits associated with these workshops, but if you attend you can obtain a certificate of attendance.

Accrual of relevant skills is an important aspect of your professional development while carrying out our research programme. To aid you in building a record of the training you have received, the majority of the training you take will be captured on your student record.

Credit-bearing modules will always be recorded on your transcript. Some workshops will offer a certificate of attendance.

Modules: A module is a coherent and self-contained unit of learning, teaching and assessment, which comprises a defined volume of learning activity, expressed in terms of learning outcomes, which are in turn linked to assessment tasks. The volume of educational activity is expressed in hours of student effort, which is linked directly to the credit value of the module.

Credit: The European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) provides a framework to clarify the relationship between educational activity and credit value. It was developed to facilitate educational mobility for students and interinstitutional cooperation among higher education institutions within the European Union.

In line with national and EU requirements, UCD operates a credit system whereby one ECTS credit corresponds to a norm of 20–30 hours of total student effort. UCD utilises the ECTS credit system, with a strong emphasis on student effort and the achievement of learning outcomes as a mechanism for determining the award of credit. Student effort includes all lecture, tutorial, seminar and laboratory contact hours, all work required on assignments and projects, time spent in independent study or research, time spent revising for and completing assessments, and any additional time and effort expected of a student enrolled to that module.

You will need to ask your supervisor to sign off on any credit-bearing modules that you take. This is to ensure that the training you undertake will underpin your research or contribute to your professional development.

Transferable Skills workshops tend to be half-day sessions or less and do not require supervisor sign off.

Students enrolled to any graduate programme at UCD have the opportunity to enrol in a module for audit from within the list of modules offered by the University. A student may audit a module if they wish to attend the module but not gain any credits for the module. This means that they do not receive a grade for the module, but their attendance will be recorded on the student's statement of results, and in some cases a certificate of attendance will be available.

It is very important to update your Graduate School Office if you withdraw from a module in order to keep records up to date. Changes to registration can only be made in the 6 weeks after commencement of term.