MOCHAS PRTP

The Postgraduate Research Training Programme (PRTP) in Modelling and Computation for Health and Society (MOCHAS) is an exciting new interdisciplinary, cohort-based research training programme. The Atlantic Technological University comprises the former Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Letterkenny Institute of Technology and Sligo Institute of Technology who merged on 1st April 2022. The MOCHAS PRTP aims to produce high-level, multidisciplinary research graduates who can develop, communicate, and exploit modelling tools for the solution of real-world problems relevant to societal needs. The individual research projects have been developed in tandem with stakeholders including hospitals, local government and industry, and address problems encompassing environmental sustainability, zero-carbon transport planning, medical devices, and health technologies. A common core training program entails development of the technical skills but also the soft skills in communication, visualization, cost analysis and innovation processes which are key to successful exploitation and impact of modelling and computational tools. The graduates will have the ability to appraise and apply different modelling approaches to build effective models appropriate to the challenge they are designed to address.