The DRHEA Graduate Education Strand aims to reposition the Dublin region as an International Centre for Graduate and in particular, Doctoral Education, by combining the strengths of the participating institutions. The DRHEA Graduate Education Strand has established an inter-institutional network in the disciplines of, Biomedical Science; Chemistry; Economics; Engineering; Physics and Politics/Sociology and Public Policy. Disciplinary Leaders have been working together and have already provided some advanced discipline specific taught modules and master classes available to all doctoral students in the alliance. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) for inter- institutional collaborative agreement on module delivery, graduate student mobility and credit exchange across the DRHEA has been signed and is currently being implemented.