Transforming Student Lives

Twenty-two year old Laura Brady from Drumhillock in County Monaghan was the inaugural recipient of the UrbanVolt postgraduate scholarship in...

Shepherd moved to Ireland in 2007 from Zimbabwe, fleeing political persecution and violence under the regime of Robert Mugabe and...

Access graduate Raymond Moran grew up in an area where it wasn’t the norm to progress to higher education. Today...

In September 2017, DCU PE and Biology student Sarah Rowe took to the field with Mayo to contest the LGFA...

Daniel Harvey is a final year Business Studies student in DCU who has overcome significant setbacks to completing his degree...

For many DCU Access students coming to university can be a challenge. Access Post-Entry Support Officer, Colette Keogh, explains why...

With the DCU Access Programme – the world is always full of possibility for talented young people – no matter...

Emma is an Access student in her final year studying for a BA in Law and Politics at DCU. In...

Jamie completed his BCL in Law and Society at DCU in 2017. His story represents the journey of many of...

Michael is a 3rd year Marketing, Innovation and Technology student at DCU. In this piece, he explains the opportunities which...

Cathal is a Marketing, Innovation and Technology student at DCU. The eldest of three children from Athlone, he is now...

Discover how DCU’s Access programme helped journalism student Hannah Kelly to become the second person in her family to attend...

George Mihailescu is a third year Physics with Biomedical Science student at DCU. After moving to Ireland, George’s parents settled...

DCU Access students past and present describe how higher education is changing their lives.