Doctoral / PhD Students working in the thematic, Environment, Energy and Health, develop evidence-based interventions addressing environmental health problems with a strong focus on real solutions to global challenges. The specific areas of research focus include: * Assistive Technologies * Bio-monitoring * Built Environment * Energy * Food Quality & Safety * Lifestyle & Policy The research programme is augmented by cross-cutting activities including Policy and Technology Development. Our students collaborate within DIT and with Ireland’s Health Service Executive and Dublin CityCouncil, the University of Ulster and the Institute of Public Health in Ireland and also participate in Ireland’s National PhD platforms such as the Agri-Food Doctoral / PhD Development Programme and the Doctoral /PhD Education Programme for Energy.

The PhD programme includes taught modules for employability skills training designed so that, on completion, each student will have achieved the appropriate learning outcomes. Modules have an approved ECTS credit rating and include topics such as research methods, research ethics, project management and communication skills. A student can be admitted to the PhD programme with recognition of prior learning (RPL) and exempted from some taught modules by application to the Graduate Research School Board. learning outcomes outlined in the National Framework of Qualifications 26 for PhD/level 10 awards, specifically: Knowledge - Breadth and Kind - graduates will have an understanding of a substantial body of knowledge which is at the forefront of their discipline and will have created new knowledge through original research, or other advanced scholarship, of a quality to satisfy review by peers. Know-how and Skill - Range and Selectivity - graduates will have a significant range of the principal skills, techniques, tools, practices and/or materials which are associated with their field of learning and will have the ability to respond to abstract problems that expand and redefine existing procedural knowledge Competence - Context, Role, Learning to Learn and Insight - graduates will be able to exercise personal responsibility and largely autonomous initiative in complex and unpredictable situations, in professional or equivalent contexts. Graduates will also be able to communicate results of research and innovation to peers and engage in critical dialogue and lead and originate complex social processes. Graduates will be able to critique the broader implications of applying knowledge to particular contexts and scrutinise and reflect on social norms and relationships and lead action to change them