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UCC researcher support programme to be rolled out nationally
- The programme aims to help PhD students and research staff to explore diverse career pathways into a variety of sectors.
A 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork (UCC) programme designed to support final-year PhD students and research staff to prepare for diverse career choices will be rolled nationally across Ireland鈥檚 higher education sector.
The UCC Odyssey Programme supports researchers and research staff to adapt, integrate, and expand on their existing expertise. Established in 2018 by Mary Kate O鈥橰egan in UCC鈥檚 HR Research Unit, the Higher Education Authority (HEA) will now roll out the Odyssey programme to higher education institutes across Ireland. The announcement was made at the recent Research Futures event.
The programme encourages participants to embrace and explore various avenues and identify career options that excite and challenge them.鈥� Odyssey works to prepare people for careers in industry, government, non-profits, entrepreneurship, and beyond. Odyssey enables participating universities to embrace, embed, and support innovative and flexible career planning for their final-year PhD students.鈥��
By building on their existing skills learned in an academic research environment, the Odyssey Programme enables participants to understand and articulate how to adapt and apply their skills to non-academic employers. The programme directly links with the Irish Government鈥檚 Impact 2030 which aims to improve career pathways into wider sectors, so that researchers can maximise their impact on all forms of organisations throughout Ireland (and beyond), while also realising their own potential.
鈥淚 am delighted that the HEA will commence the national roll out of the Odyssey Programme, enabling PhDs throughout Irish Third Level to benefit in realising their full career potential. I am really proud to be part of UCC, where the programme has been embraced and encouraged since its beginnings in 2018 by our leadership and, of course, most importantly, the wonderful participants,鈥� stated Mary Kate O鈥橰egan.
Welcoming the announcement, Professor John Cryan, Vice President of Research and Innovation UCC, said: 鈥淭he Odyssey Programme has been transformational in reimagining career choices for researchers in UCC. It is great to see the hard work and vision of Mary Kate O鈥橰egan recognised and that PhD researchers across the country can now benefit from it."