Texts Contexts Cultures - Structured
Course Overview
Texts, Contexts, Cultures provides students with a PhD in their chosen discipline of the Arts and Humanities in four years of research and training. The programme is designed to integrate knowledge and use of new technologies and related professional placements into the traditional PhD. It encourages candidates to develop their research interests, ideas and skills in challenging, supportive interdisciplinary contexts. Their research interests will develop through a series of foundation year modules which are delivered at participating institutions by online learning media and video conferencing.
Texts, Contexts, Cultures is designed to prepare students for life after graduation. Participants benefit from thorough preparation in research skills transferable to a wide variety of settings. They will also have access to placements and mentoring systems in a broad range of some of the most exciting contemporary organisations in media, the cultural and creative industries, public administration and academe.
Entry requirements
Minimum requirement 2.1 honours (or equivalent international qualification) undergraduate degree.
Application dates
Course Code: PHD-TCC
PhD (Texts, Contexts, Cultures), full-time
PhD (Texts, Contexts, Cultures), part-time
Applications are made online via the NUI Galway Postgraduate Applications System.
Research
Areas of interest
Professor Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
Establishment of electronic database of Irish inscribed stones; prosopographical analysis of inscribed stones and their contexts; study of a defined database of Irish inscribed stones.
Dr. Jane Conroy
Dr. Daniel Carey
Literature of advice on travel 1500–1900 (ref. TCCNUIG06); French consular reportage and travel writing 1660–1800 (ref. TCCNUIG07); cross-cultural encounters in the French Mediterranean.
Dr. Lionel Pilkington
Spiritual aspects of empire: the congregation of Vincent de Paul and missionary Catholicism; British Imperial policy and popular theatre in Ireland, Canada and U.S., c. 1886(ndash)1914; Irish media, decolonisation, and empire in the 20th century.
Dr. Mark Stansbury
Conor Newman
Archaeology and digital survey of Columbanian foundations in France; pilgrims, ideas, images.