Personalised Student Pathways

Pillar one of Designing Futures works with students to design their future through the creation of a personalised skills pathway. 

This was achieved by:

Student Success Coaching

Creating personalised skills pathways with the support of Student Success Coaches across the Colleges of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Students, Science and Engineering and Business, Public Policy and Law using Stanford’s Designing For Life methodology.

Student Success Coaching offers a supportive space for students, encouraging them to learn more about themselves, gain clarity on their goals and decide on actions to move forward towards achieving them. Students can work with a coach, 1:1 or in or small group session.

Student Success Coaches encourage and support students to take an active, intentional role in ‘designing their lives’ to achieve their unique academic, personal and life goals during their time at University of Galway.

Contact successcoach@universityofgalway.ie to book a coaching session.

Vertically Integrated Projects

‘Vertically Integrated Projects’ or VIPs  (VIPs) are interdisciplinary research projects that recruit undergraduate students from a range of disciplines to work on discrete research outputs relevant to the project. VIPs have been rolled out in over 40 universities worldwide and they build the research impact of the VIP PIs and the employability and research awareness of the student members.

Students earn credits and can participate in multiple semesters, with returning students taking on additional leadership/project responsibilities.  "Vertically Integrated" refers to VIP team compositions, which can include undergraduate, postgraduate (taught) and research students in addition to University staff. In 2022, University of Galway became a member of the VIP Consortium led by Georgia Institute of Technology.


For further information contact: oonagh.meade@universityofgalway.ie