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The Research & Graduate School is situated in the John Henry Newman Campus. Learn how the Research and Graduate School assists, facilitates and underwrites high quality staff and postgraduate research in Mary Immaculate College in line with the College Strategic Plan.
Learn about the Research & Graduate School at MIC, which is based on the John Henry Newman Campus, adjacent to the MIC Limerick Campus, building a community of professional practice in a dedicated research space and providing office accommodation for postgraduate research students and visiting scholars.
Mary Immaculate College (MIC) embraces and supports academic research at the highest level in its core fields of Education and Humanities. We assist staff and students to conduct original research, to engage in scholarship and creative innovation, and to publish the results of their work in writing and through academic conference presentations worldwide.
Discover how MIC encourages, assists and provides practical support to faculty members and postgraduate research students to help them conceptualise and conduct original research, scholarship and inventive project work. Their research is both of intrinsic academic value in itself, and also of service to their academic fields, disciplines and communities of professional practice, as well as society at large.
Undertaking a Master's or Doctorate by research offers applicants a chance to do extensive and independent research on a particular topic, eventually completing a dissertation or thesis (a long piece of writing) of a high standard. You will work with a supervisor who will mentor you throughout the process. With a Doctorate (PhD), as well as producing a large single piece of publishable research, you will do an oral examination (called a 'Viva Voce'). Structured PhD programmes combine taught modules and other assessment modes along with the key aspects of a Doctorate.
Explore cultivating new research in the areas of Education and the Liberal Arts, and supporting staff and student initiatives, which are key strategic goals at MIC. Various projects are ongoing at MIC at any one time.
The Research & Graduate School at MIC is committed to supporting postgraduate researchers to develop the skills they need to progress with their research and to plan for the next stage in their careers, whether in academia or elsewhere.
Explore the Research and Graduate School supports, which include: a Research Office that oversees, coordinates and supports institutional research; a Graduate School that provides full academic administration services for all research students; various finance schemes for research seed funding, networking, upskilling and conference work (staff and students); and further supports.
Learn about reserving items in the MIC library. By reserving a library item you ensure that item will be held for you upon its return. Find out how to place a reservation.
2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the partition of Ireland and the foundation of the Irish State and the 60th anniversary of the independence of Algeria. The intersection of these anniversaries will be marked in Dublin on the weekend of 16 - 18 September with a major one-off event - Resistance Cultures Festival: Algeria and Ireland.
Learn more about the library resources available at MIC. These include: Catalogue, Journals, Databases, E-Books, Teaching Resources, Theses, Microfilm, Newspapers, MIRR Mary Immaculate Research Repository, and RIAN Open Access Irish Research Publications.
Learn more about the research resources made available through the Research Office and the Graduate School integrated strands of research support and professional development, which are made available to staff and postgraduate researchers.
A review by Mary Immaculate College (MIC) academics into an early intervention programme for children with a language delay has found that the programme can have a pivotal role in significantly reducing the need for referrals for children to a speech and language therapist. The Early Talk Boost programme was first implemented by TUSLA’s National Area-Based Childhood (ABC) sites in Limerick and Ballyfermot and has recently been expanded to six further urban areas.
