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Science Without Borders Research Internships at DIT

Science and Health: Dr Tony Betts email: anthony.betts@dit.ie Engineering and Built Environment:

• Dr. Marek Rebow

email: marek.rebow@dit.ie

research skills education

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Research is a cyclical process

Research is, by its nature,cyclical

Paul Leedy, "Practical Research: Planning and Design"

Mathematical

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numerical modeling Experiments

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Research Internship Scheme

• For undergraduate students currently participating in the Brazilian Science

without Borders (SWB-CSF) programme in DIT.

• The programme will take place during the period 23rd May to 22nd July 2016
• Participants will be selected following a competitive process.

Objectives:

• To promote DIT research activity to SWB undergraduate students
• To enable SWB students to acquire research experience in an academic setting.
• To provide some research benefit for a Research

Centre/Group/School/Lecturer

• To identify suitable current SWB undergraduate students to possibly undertake

future postgraduate studies in DIT

• To provide motivation for SWB students to strive for maximum benefit from

their academic programme.

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Information

• Students who are selected will continue to receive a stipend for

the duration of the internship.

• Some additional funds may also be made available for the

purchase of materials or consumables in some Projects (eg laboratory-based studies).

• Students will be registered on a 10 ECTS credit module entitled

Summer Research Internship which will require assessment of their work.

• This module (10 ECTS) will be taken in addition to the 60 ECTS

credits undertaken already

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• Research internships can be hosted either by Research Centres/Groups or by

Schools (individual lecturers).

• For the hosts, benefits of a research intern during the summer period may include
• acquisition of results for a journal or Conference publication,
• attainment of preliminary results for use in a funding proposal,
• exploration of a novel research idea and modelling and/or analysis of

data.

• The intern will be supplied with a desk, computer and engaged in research

activities for the duration of the internship.

• The intern will also have a supervision structure and Co-ordinator

Further Information

Research Organisation in DIT

• 1. Four Thematic Areas
• 2. Research Institutes

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Centre for Industrial & Engineering Optics (CIEO) Radiation & Environmental Science Centre (RESC) Centre for Research into Engineering & Surface Technology (CREST) Inorganic Pharmaceutical & Biomimetic Research Centre Nanolab Food and Health Research Centre (FHRC) Applied Intelligence Research Centre (AIRC) Other Groups…

3.Research Centres and Schools/Groups

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Projects Titles will be announced in early 2016 Good Luck!

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• 1. DIT Fiosraigh - NEXT March-May 2016
• 2. IRC Dec-Feb 2015/2016 (GoI) + Employer/Enterprise

Schemes

• 3. SWB
• 4. SFI
• 5. Self-Funded (Start)
• 6. EPA
• 7. HRB
• 8. H2020
• 9. FIRM

Some Future Research Funds…..