A leading European research-intensive university, UCD is the largest university in Ireland, and is one of the two Irish universities ranked within the top 200 universities in the world (THE World University Ranking).
It is ranked 45 in the World in Development Studies by the QS World University Rankings by Subject. UCD has a long history with education, research, and exchange with East African Universities. This goes back to UCD training the Catholic Priests that went on mission, Irish Aid fellowship program for civil servants in East Africa and the more recent UCD Horizons Program, UCD Volunteers Overseas, Masters in Development Practice Program, the Ph.D. in Global Human Development and the Research Centres in Humanitarian Action and Sustainable Development Solutions.
With a history stretching back to 1854 and an impressive list of notable alumni, including the writer James Joyce and many current and former government ministers, we can rightly claim to have been a formative influence and an integral part of the Irish State since its foundation. In recent years UCD has established itself as Ireland?s Global University, with operations around the world, and more than 5000 international students attending our Dublin campus coming from 124 different countries. We aim to give all students an international education that will prepare them to take their place in today and tomorrow?s global society.
About University College Dublin http://www.ucd.ie/about/
University College Dublin is one of Europe's leading research-intensive universities. At UCD undergraduate education, master's and PhD training, research, innovation and community engagement form a dynamic spectrum of activity.
Today UCD is Ireland's largest and most diverse university with over 30,000 students, drawn from approximately 124 countries. It actively promotes university life as a journey of intellectual and personal discovery through its highly innovative and flexible UCD Horizons undergraduate curriculum and is the most popular destination for Irish school-leavers.
UCD is Ireland's leader in graduate education with over 8,000 graduate students, with almost a quarter being graduate research students.
UCD is home to over 6,000 international students In addition, the University places great emphasis on the internationalisation of the Irish student experience ? preparing all UCD students for future employment and life that crosses borders, boundaries and cultures.
UCD offers many undergraduate electives on International Development across Business, Law, Social Science, Medicine, Agriculture and Engineering. This includes a new undergraduate elective, or horizon course, called achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The goal is ensure that all UCD undergraduate students do a least one course/module on global challenges during their undergraduate years.
UCD Volunteers Overseas was established in 2003 by the former UCD Chaplain Fr Tony Coote in response to an expressed desire among students to engage in voluntary work abroad. Since its inception and launch as a registered charitable organisation in 2004, UCDVO has extended its activities to projects in India, Haiti, Nicaragua,Tanzania and Uganda and employs two full-time staff to co-ordinate its activities. To date, 1157 volunteers have engaged in environmental, educational, healthcare, construction and computer training projects in disadvantaged communities overseas
UCD offers many Masters Courses in the area of International Development including the Masters in Development Practice. Since 2007 UCD has hosted a local Dublin Masters in Development Practice (MDP) while chairing the Global Association of MDPs based in Columbia University, New York. The MDP is a two-year programme that offers professional training in Sustainable Development Practice at the graduate level. The Global MDP was funded with start-up money by the MacArthur Foundation (U.S.A.) to the value of $22m. The MDP provides interdisciplinary professional training that addresses the challenges of sustainable development across four academic pillars: Health, Social and Natural Sciences and Management, and across two development practice engagements, including fieldwork within country and internships with international organisations. The Global Association is now composed of 40 top Universities hosted in all continents of the world. It currently has over 5,000 students and alumni. Professor Jeffery Sachs Columbia University is the President of the association while Professor Patrick Paul Walsh of UCD chairs the Academic Steering Committee, www.globalmdp.org.
Coordinating and supervising students out in the field has given UCD staff remarkably good within country experience. The MDP has given staff unique insights into how one goes about research and education across the three pillars of Sustainable Development mixing Science with Social Science, Theory with Practice and Transferring knowledge South North and vice versa.

Finally Many students do Ph.D. in Development issues within their School prorgams such as economics. UCD also runs a flagship Ph.D. in Global Human (Sustainable) Development. The latter trains Public Servants, including academics in Universities, up to Ph.D. level in East Africa and beyond. This includes staff in statistics offices, planning and research think- thanks. We have successfully graduated 50 students since 2007. Building capacity in sustainable development practice within government is the key to success over the next fifteen years. Working with Ph.Ds, UCD works closely with government officials from the Developing world.

Finally UCD has two Research Centres, The Centre for Humanitarian Action http://cha.ucd.ie/, which hosted the 2015 World Humanitarian Summit, and the UCD Centre for Sustainable Development Solutions, that is a member of the www.unsdsn.org.
Examples of Fieldwork in Year 1 of the Masters of Development Practice
Between June and August, MDP students will have the opportunity to do a clinical field training in partnership with Non-Governmental Organizations, government entities, and multi-lateral donor partners. In past years, the MDP Dublin has been able to send students to several countries of Africa and in South America.
To date, Dublin MDP students have worked with the following organisations:
Akagera National Park, Rwanda
Centre for Conflict Management (NUR), Rwanda
International Justice Mission (IJM), Rwanda
Vi-Agroforestry, Rwanda
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), Rwanda
Gender Monitoring Office (GMO), Rwanda
Central Statistics Office, Rwanda
Environmental Protection Agency and CIESIN- Sierra Leone
Community Development Research Network (CDRN)- Uganda
The Volunteer Project- Tanzania
REPOA- Tanzania
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro- Brasil
UNESCO- Dakar, Senegal
Wells for Zoe ? Malawi
Camara ? Jamaica
APA/CVM ? Tanzania
DUCE ? Tanzania
Gorta ? Kenya
GOAL ? Ethiopia
Examples of Fieldwork in Year 2 of the Masters of Development Practice
In the second year, MDP Dublin students will undertake their field program with development organisations at the international and national levels. To date the MDP students have worked with the following international organisations:
UN Headquarters New York, Department of Peacekeeping
UNESCO ? IHP, Paris
OECD DAC, Paris
UN Office on Drugs & Crime, Vienna
UN OCHA, Geneva
UN, Research & Development, New York
IFAD, Washington
UNEP, Nairobi
UNDP, Geneva
UN SIDS, New York
UN DESA, New York
UNODC, South Africa
UN ECASRO-EA, Rwanda
UN ESCAP, Bangkok
UNESC, New Delhi
UNDP, Tokyo
UN ESCWA, Lebanon
OCHA, South Africa
Example of Ph.D. Dissertations
Dr. Jing Zhang (2010) "Aggregation Fallacies in Economic and Social Development Indicators", HEA-Irish Aid Scholar, Lecturer in Economics, Xiamen University, China.
Dr. Kenneth Mdadila (2012), "Human Development Inequalities in Tanzania", HEA-Irish Aid Scholar, Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Dar es Salaam.
Dr. Joel Silas (2012), "Sexual Behaviour, HIV/AIDS Knowledge, Stimga and Socio-Economic Consequences of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania" HEA-Irish Aid Scholar, Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Dar es Salaam.
Dr. Niall Morris (2012), "The Political Economy of Aid Donation", Government of Ireland Scholar, Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland
Dr. Lucas Katera (2014), "Drivers of Farm Household Incomes in Rural Tanzania " Senior Economist, REPOA, Policy Research for Development.
Dr. Jupiter Simbeye, (2014) "Health and Gender in Malawi", HEA-Irish Aid Funding, Lecturer in Statistics , Mathematical Sciences Department, Chancellor College, University of Malawi.
Gibson Mandozana, (PhD) "Socioeconomic Determinants of HIV/AIDS Treatment failures", EDCTP Funding.
Birasa Nyamurinda, (PhD) "Cooperatives and Agriculture in Rwanda", TCD-UCD MDP Funding.
Mohammed Al Rizeiqi, (PhD) "Food Waste and Exporting". Erasmus Mundus.

Examples of International Development Networks
Global Association for the Masters in Development Practice, Earth Institute, Columbia University (www.globalmdp.org).
EARNEST HIV-AIDS Trial Training and Networking Committee, funded by EDCTP (www.edctp.org).
AidData Research Consortium- USAID Higher Education Solutions Network.
UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) http://unsdsn.org/
UCD is a member of the Network on Humanitarian Assistance (NOHA). The NOHA Master?s Programme is supported by the European Commission?s Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO), and Directorate-General Education and Culture of the European Commission under the patronage of the Erasmus Mundus Partnership Program.
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32nd Governing Body for the period 01 February 2014 ? 31 January 2019
Chairman
Eugene McCague BCL DipEL, c/o Governing Authority Secretariat, The President's Office, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4.
The President
Andrew J. Deeks BE (UWA) MEngSc (UWA) PhD (UWA) FIEAust, The President's Office, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4.
Senior Academic Officer
Mark Rogers BA (Dubl) PhD (Glasgow), The Acting Registrar, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4.
Elected by the Professorial Staff
Alan Baird BSc (Glasgow) PhD (Lond), UCD School of Veterinary Medicine, Belfield, Dublin 4.
Joe Carthy BSc PhD, Principal, UCD College of Science, Belfield, Dublin 4.
Orla Feely BE MS (Calif) PhD (Calif), Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact, Belfield, Dublin 4.
Pat Guiry BSc PhD MRIA, Director, UCD Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, Belfield, Dublin 4.
Imelda Maher BCL LLM (Temple) BL (Kings Inns) MRIA, UCD School of Law, Belfield, Dublin 4.
Dermot Moran BA MA (Yale) MPhil (Yale) PhD (Yale) DLitt (NUI) MRIA, UCD School of Philosophy, Belfield, Dublin 4.
Elected by the Non-Professorial Academic Staff
Joseph Brady MA PhD, UCD School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, Belfield, Dublin 4.
Marie Clarke MA PhD HDip in Ed, UCD School of Education, Belfield, Dublin 4.
John Dunnion MSc, UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics, Belfield, Dublin 4.
Russell Higgs BA (Liverpool) PhD (Liverpool), UCD School of Mathematical Sciences, Belfield, Dublin 4.
Wolfgang Marx MA (Hamburg) PhD (Hamburg), UCD School of Music, Belfield, Dublin 4.
Elected by the Non-Academic Staff
Margaret Brindley, UCD College of Human Sciences Office, Belfield, Dublin 4.
Paul Harkin BSc (DCU) MBA, UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science, Belfield, Dublin 4.
Hugo O'Donnell, UCD Applied Language Centre, Belfield, Dublin 4.
Elected Officers of the Students? Union
Marcus O'Halloran, President, UCD Students' Union, Belfield, Dublin 4.
Dannii Curtis, Education Officer, UCD Students' Union, Belfield, Dublin 4.
Clare O'Connor, Welfare Officer, UCD Students' Union, Belfield, Dublin 4.
Nominations from Organisations
Charles Coase FCA MA (Oxon), 41 Windsor Road, Rathmines, Dublin 6.
Michael Feeney BComm FCCA FIB, Chief Executive, The Institute of Banking, IFSC, 1 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1.
Nominated by the Minister for Education and Skills
Cllr Dermot Lacey, 66 Beech Hill Drive, Donnybrook, Dublin 4.
Dr Vincent McHale, Lack West, Turlough, Castelbar, Co Mayo.
Cllr Pat Nugent, Carrigroe, Dungarvan, Co Waterford.
Elected by the UCD Graduates of NUI
Michael Clark BSc MSc PhD, 61 Seamount, Stillorgan Road, Booterstown, Co Dublin.
Clíona de Bháldraithe Marsh MA, 8 Warwick Terrace, Ranelagh, Dublin 6.
Maurice Treacy BSc MBA (NU) PhD, 38 Clarinda Park East, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin.
Lord Mayor of the City of Dublin, Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin 2.
Nominated by the National University of Ireland
Adrian Burke BComm FCA, Dovecote, Killiney Heath, Killiney, Co Dublin.
Emma Teeling BSc MSc (Edin) PhD (QUB), UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science, Belfield, Dublin 4.
Elected by the Association of County and City Councils
Cllr Mary Barrett, Derk House, Skreen, Co Sligo.
Cllr Gary Carville, Tullynacrunnat, Castleblayney, Co Monaghan.
Cllr Mary Hilda Cavanagh, Whitsewall, Crosspatrick, Co Kilkenny.
Cllr Christy Curtin, Clonbony, Miltown-Malbay, Co Clare.
Cllr David Daniels, St Anthony?s, 32 Viewmount Park, Waterford.
Cllr John Paul Feeley, The Bungalow, Stranamorth, Blacklion, Co Cavan.
Cllr Luie McEntire, Annagh, Moyne, Co Longford.
Cllr Barry Ward, The Law Library, Four Courts, Dublin 7.
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