About the Thomas J. Moran Graduate School
Dear Postgraduate Students,
I am delighted to welcome you to the Thomas J. Moran Graduate School as we embark on an exciting new academic year together. This school is dedicated to your success, and I hope you take full advantage of everything it has to offer as you pursue your postgraduate studies at Queen’s University Belfast.
At the Graduate School, we pride ourselves on providing a state-of-the-art hub designed specifically to support and develop postgraduate students like you. With access to world-class study facilities and bespoke careers and employability guidance, we are here to help you excel both academically and in your future professional endeavours.
Beyond your academic journey, our vibrant community offers countless opportunities to build essential skills in communication, leadership, enterprise, and innovation. Whether you're aiming for a role in academia or preparing for the global workplace, we are committed to providing the tools, training and support needed to achieve your aspirations.
Equally important is your well-being, which is why we host a variety of social and community events to enrich your postgraduate experience. We believe that fostering connections with fellow students and staff is a key part of thriving during your time here. I encourage you to make the most of every opportunity available this year, and I look forward to seeing the remarkable things you will accomplish.
Best wishes,
Professor Colin McCoy
Dean of the Thomas J. Moran Graduate School
The Thomas J. Moran Graduate School connects students across all disciplines to one another, and to mentors, leaders, and employers within the University and beyond. We support postgraduates to become ‘what’s next thinkers’, training you to be thinkers, communicators, innovators and leaders who are future ready.
For us, at Queen’s University Belfast, the ‘post’ in ‘postgraduate’ is not just ‘what comes next’. It’s about something much more dynamic and challenging: it’s about pushing beyond current understanding and current categories; redefining and rethinking previous assumptions; generating disruptive, flexible, adaptive perspectives. In short, it’s about what we call ‘what’s next thinking’.
Supporting our postgraduates to become ‘what’s next thinkers’ means disciplinary excellence combined with transdisciplinary collaboration. Queen’s unique partnership between Academic Schools or Research Institutes and the Thomas J. Moran Graduate School is what enables you to stand out as a ‘what’s next thinker’.
Through your Masters or doctoral programme, you’ll be supported by internationally-recognised research leaders in your field of study, while the Thomas J. Moran Graduate School offers you a world-class intellectual and social hub that connects students from all disciplines to one another, and to mentors, leaders, and employers within the University and beyond.
The Thomas J. Moran Graduate School is about intellectual challenge beyond disciplinary borders, delivering personal effectiveness and skills development that recognises the very different life and professional experiences you've had to date; it’s about promoting a culture of opportunity, innovation and enterprise, and a rich, diverse and inclusive postgraduate social community.
In short, the Queen’s postgraduate experience is a whole-person approach that will enable you to stand out in an increasingly competitive local and global job market.
The Thomas J. Moran Graduate School provides an exclusive postgraduate hub that values the needs of our students
Based in the beautifully restored and remodelled Victorian Lynn library, this fully-accessible space has modern, hi-tech meeting and group study rooms, a silent study area and social spaces creating a vibrant hub for intellectual exchange and collaboration.
The Thomas J. Moran Graduate School offers an intellectual and social hub that connects you to one another, to mentors, thought leaders, and employers.
You’ll benefit from our collaborations with leaders across business, government and the voluntary sector, both locally and globally, helping to create mentoring relationships and networks, and we enjoy international partnerships with other Graduate Schools.
We are a community of creative thinkers and world changers, collectively searching for solutions to create a better tomorrow.
This is the place where physicists work alongside linguists to develop leadership skills, where medics collaborate with creative artists to communicate their research to a non-specialist audience, and where engineers seek the perspectives of philosophers to tackle global challenges.
We provide high-quality, transdisciplinary training and development programmes that aim to make you stand out in an increasingly competitive local and global job market.
We’ll help you to become future leaders by creating the conditions for you to apply your knowledge to real world challenges, giving you the confidence and skills to gain an edge in employability.