Walsh Scholars Opportunities
Under the Teagasc Walsh Scholars Programme, a number of postgraduate opportunities in agriculture, horticulture, food, agri-food economics, rural development and rural environment, as well as specific topics are advertised over a number of months.
Currently, there are a number of current opportunities advertised below. Further opportunities have yet to be advertised.
Prospective Scholars
For informal enquires and further information regarding a specific opportunity, please complete this Expressions of Interest Form and email to the supervisors directly.
Please view The Walsh Scholars for further information on this postgraduate programme.
Current Opportunities:
Utilising Advanced Milking Technology and Herd Milk Recording to Improve the Sustainability of Irish Dairy Farms
Full details: PhD Opportunity 2025009 Utilising Advanced Milking Technology and Herd Milk Recording to Improve the Sustainability of Irish Dairy Farms (PDF)
Closing date: 23 May 2025
Interfacing solute diffusivity characteristics within cheese matrices with sensor developments to create platform technologies to remotely monitor functional and quality indices
Full details: PhD Opportunity 2024215 Interfacing solute diffusivity characteristics within cheese matrices with sensor developments to create platform technologies to remotely monitor functional and quality indices (PDF)
Closing date: 25 May 2025
Investigation of the sources, concentrations and partition of nitrate, nitrite and nitrosamine residues in Irish milk and dairy powder products
Full details: PhD Opportunity 2025040 Investigation of the sources, concentrations and partition of nitrate, nitrite and nitrosamine residues in Irish milk and dairy powder products (PDF)
Closing date: 07 July 2025
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) within the dairy supply chain
Full details: PhD Opportunity 2025021 Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) within the dairy supply chain (PDF)
Closing date: 30 June 2025
E-Farm: Electrifying Irish Dairy – Pathways to a Low-Carbon Future
Full details: PhD Opportunity 2025004 E-Farm: Electrifying Irish Dairy – Pathways to a Low-Carbon Future (PDF)
Closing date: 19 May 2025
Protein-Carbohydrate Interactions in Fat-Filled Milk Powders
Full details: PhD Opportunity 2024027 Protein-Carbohydrate Interactions in Fat-Filled Milk Powders (PDF)
Closing date: 11 June 2025
Integrating Designer Cell Factories and Innovative Bioprocesses for Side-Stream Biotransformation
Full details: PhD Opportunity 2025016 Integrating Designer Cell Factories and Innovative Bioprocesses for Side-Stream Biotransformation (PDF)
Closing date: 09 May 2025
Optimizing reproductive management of pasture-based dairy cows with precision technologies
Full details: PhD Opportunity 2024030 Optimizing reproductive management of pasture-based dairy cows with precision technologies (PDF)
Closing date: 09 May 2025
PhD Opportunity 2025013 Influence of agricultural management on soil microbial biodiversity and microbially mediated carbon cycling in Irish peat soils
Full details: PhD Opportunity 2025013 Influence of agricultural management on soil microbial biodiversity and microbially mediated carbon cycling in Irish peat soils (PDF)
Closing date: 26 May 2025
Optimisation of processing strategies for enhanced sustainability in industrial butter manufacture
Full details: PhD Opportunity 2025049 Optimisation of processing strategies for enhanced sustainability in industrial butter manufacture (PDF)
Closing date: 16 May 2025
agriRDM: Overcoming Discipline Specific Research Data Management Challenges in Agri-Food Research
Full details: MSc Opportunity 2025037 (PDF)
Closing date: 20 June 2025
An assessment of the impact of liquid-solid separation on greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions throughout the entire manure management chain
Full details: PhD Opportunity 2025042 (PDF)
Closing date: 25 April 2025
Rapid evaluation of quality variations and methane emissions in Irish Beef Using Omics technologies across diverse production systems
Full details: Rapid evaluation of quality variations and methane emissions in Irish Beef Using Omics technologies across diverse production systems (PDF)
Closing date: 30 June 2025
Tailoring the nutritional and techno-functional properties of milk by selecting specific protein genetic variants
Full details: PhD Opportunity 2024211 Tailoring the nutritional and techno-functional properties of milk by selecting specific protein genetic variants (PDF)
Closing date: 20 April 2025
An Assessment of Links between Farmland Markets and the Environmental Sustainability of
Agriculture in Ireland
Full details: An Assessment of Links between Farmland Markets and the Environmental Sustainability of Agriculture in Ireland (PDF)
Closing date: 06 June 2025
Emulsion-based formulations containing newly-discovered bacteriocin producers as probiotics for treating bovine mastitis
Full details: Emulsion-based formulations containing newly-discovered bacteriocin producers as probiotics for treating bovine mastitis (PDF)
Closing date: 11 July 2025