State to lure new PhD students with €28,000 yearly research stipend

Minister for Research Simon Harris will today launch Innovative for Ireland. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell/The Irish TimesPhD students will be offered a €28,000 annual stipend from a new €100 million public-private partnership aimed at recruiting researchers from abroad and retaining doctoral students at home.

The initial phase of the initiative will seek up to 400 high-calibre PhD students to undertake research into national and global challenges such as global warming and climate adaptation, worldwide health and pandemics water poverty, digital society and cybersecurity. Programme disciplines will range from science, technology and engineering to arts, humanities and social sciences.

The programme will be managed through Science Foundation Ireland in partnership with the Irish Research Council and the Health Research Board. A call for applications to the programme from prospective doctoral students is expected to be announced later this year.

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I don’t like the sounds of this one bit - this is not going to help reduce cost of living or qualify Irish ppl but more give money to foreign students and keep us Irish in ‘no-market’ housing crisis? Homelessness is more widespread today than ever before - there’s a workforce…

Why stipends? Proper job contracts would be more respectable.

Educating a population is hard and requires competent ministerial management, throwing money on the table and buying people someone else educated is easy. No great surprise here.

coolharsh55 Well at last there is something. As far as I can see PhD studentships have not gone up since the establishment of SFI in 2000. Costs for students have gone up a lot in that time.

Another gesture to pretend a useless government is doing something.

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That's crap. There's lads on the sites come out with 2500+ for a 40 hour week. Labourers who are on 40,000 a year to sweep scaffold. Only ones getting paid less than that are apprentices (used as cheap labour)

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TriciaOKeeffe That looks exciting !

What a joke...I worked full time and starved for years in Dublin to be left with nothing but debt. ShameOnYou

This is really great step in the right direction. Well done SimonHarrisTD

28,000 euro, did you tell them that that should barely cover their rent

100m divided by 28,000 = 3,571 students. In 2017, there were “almost 9,000 PhD students in Irish third-level institutions” So, what percent of Irish people will be in receipt of all this largesse?

Might any of those researchers investigate the extraordinary signal in CSO mortality data for Q4 2021 & the year as a whole? Better yet, would roinnslainte investigate immediately? fiannafailparty FineGael greenparty_ie sinnfeinireland AontuIE

Imagine primary schools have to beg parents for bags of old clothes to get a few euro to cover basics

Only for gender studies PhDs

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