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Review of PhD Supports Delayed to Summer 2023

The review of PhD supports previously announced by the Department of Higher Education and Research has been delayed to the end of the second quarter of 2023.

The report, commissioned in October of 2022, was originally due to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2023.

In a letter seen by The University Times , Dr. Deirdre Lillis, Assistant Secretary and head of research, innovation, evidence for policy and EU and international division confirmed that the review, “informed by a robust evidence base, will be completed in the first half of 2023” and will make “recommendations which will inform future actions to ensuring a sound framework of PhD supports is in place”.

In response to the delay, the Postgraduate Workers Organisation (PWO), a new-

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