Program Overview

College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences

The College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences offers a range of postgraduate research opportunities.

Postgraduate Research

• Taught Courses: The college provides taught courses for postgraduate researchers.
• Research Courses: The college offers various research courses, including:
  • PhDs
  • MPhil
  • MRes

Current Postgrads

• Postgraduate Training Modules: The college offers training modules for current postgraduate researchers.
• Study Facilities: The college provides study facilities for postgraduate researchers.
• Research Students Travel Bursaries: The college offers travel bursaries for research students.
• Meet your student reps: The college has student representatives for postgraduate researchers.

PhD Excellence Scholarships

The college offers PhD Excellence Scholarships for outstanding postgraduate researchers.

Postgraduate Researcher Community

The college has a community of postgraduate researchers, including:

• Eileen Hoffler
• Dario Galassini
• Edith Busteed
• Elsina Caponetti
• Grainne Mulcahy
• Hope Noonan Stoner
• Jacopo Turini
• John Anthony Balfe
• Kieran Fionn Murphy
• Leah Kamere
• Louisa Esther Mugabo
• Melissa Renee Shiels
• Noreen Kane
• Phil Maguire
• Pooja Priy
• Rachel Gough
• Sandra Costello
• Sevita Caseres
• Shruti Rajgopal
• Tadgh Connery
• Tommaso Verga
• Topaz Lily Shrestha
• Yaoshen Liang
• Agnes Phelan
• Alba Martinez Alarcon
• Alice Ahern
• Amir Shahhosseini Angas
• Anna Navin Young
• Aoife Lynch
• Aoife May Dare
• Arhonda Lynch
• Arran Tenzin Bradstock
• Barbara Alam
• Billy Fitzgerald
• Billy Goodwin
• Brenda Mondragón Toledo
• Catarina Andrade Carvalho
• Chara Charalambous
• Charlotte Waltz
• Chloe Rudolph
• Chris Clarke
• Cian Mark Lynch
• Ciara Barry
• Claudia Atsufui Hihetah
• Conor Whelan
• Cormac Ó Haodha
• Daniel Fraser
• Daniel O'Callaghan
• Emmet Taylor
• David Walsh
• David Cashman
• Denis Bilo
• Diarmuid Hickey
• Didier Ching
• Doris Murphy
• Dylan Mason
• Dylan Phelan
• Edyta O'Shanahan
• Eileen Mary O'Connor
• Eilish O'Shaughnessy
• Elizabeth Rosales Martínez
• Elizabeth Tanner
• Ellen O Sullivan
• Emily Phelan
• Emma Chalençon
• Emma Kavanagh
• Eoin Gamble
• Estefanía Muñoz Gómez
• Francesca Nieddu
• Gabriella Fattibene
• Gavin Joseph Lynch Frahill
• Giulia Giannella
• Giulia Luciani
• Giulia Priori
• Helen Catherine Mary Mc Gonagle
• Helena Mary Nican Fhaili
• Holly May Walker Dunseith
• Honoka Miyazaki
• Ingrid Glen
• Isabella Muscolino
• Vitalis Jafla Pontianus
• James Dineen
• Jana Smirinova
• Janet Dennehy
• Caroline Enberg
• Jennifer Ahern
• Matteo Moraschini
• Jody Moore-Ponce
• John O'Donovan
• John Twomey
• Karla Santos Zambrano
• Kathleen Foley Murphy
• Katie Marah
• Keith Minihane
• Kevin Hosford
• Kevin Fylan
• Laura Kenneally
• Laurence Counihan
• Linda Dennehy
• Shuai Liu
• Louisa Esther Mugabo
• Luca Gambirasio
• Luke Watson
• Maeve Sikora
• Maria Butler
• Matteo Moraschini
• Matthew Whyte
• Mikey Rose
• Michał Biedowicz
• Mireia Gómez i Martinez
• Natasha Dukelow
• Nóra Ní Bheaglaoich
• Olajumoke Igun
• Oliver Rath
• Orla Keating
• Orla Walsh
• Purab Riddhi Chaudhuri
• Ricardo Jorge Guedes de Freitas Rodrigues
• Robyn McAuliffe
• Roksana Niewadzisz
• Rory O'Sullivan
• Roy Wroth
• Rufina Kingori
• Shannon Freegrove
• Shauna Lee Allen
• Hongru Song
• Stephanie Murphy
• Swara Shariff Karim
• Tadhg Dennehy
• Talia Huffe
• (Tomás) Toirdealbhach Ó Lionáird
• Una Kingston
• Ute Krenzer
• Yuyao Xiao
• Aoife Deane
• Eoin Nash
• Ewelina Urbanska
• Rojin Mukriyan
• Ying Lan
• Ellen Scally
• Clare Geraghty
• Jordan Lillis
• Iuliia Buyskykh
• Jessica White
• Sophie Ni Riain
• Marnina Winkler
• Ciara Norman
• Xu, Yunhan
• Jessica O'Hara
• Cait Pleimionn
• Jordan Carolan
• Darwesh Obeid
• Niamh Ni Lochlainn
• Runkun Shen
• Lucy Rebecca Holme
• Elizabeth (Beth) Aherne
• Aoife Patricia Lynch
• Kathleen Elizabeth Coker
• Rosemary Anne Kelly
• Angela Marie Santoro
• Rosemary Anne Kelly
• Gabrielle Catherine Dufrene
• Vasileios Varelas
• Seda Turgutovna Guektasch
• Zan Luyan
• Ella Nancy Doran
• Annette Loy
• Chen Wei
• Janice Patricia Kelleher
• Iuliia Julia Buyskykh
• James Leonard
• MaryClare Clark
• Ioannis Kaprosioutis
• Hanke Kelber
• Ailish Brassil
• Caterina Vescovi
• Sean O'Mahony
• Wang Yu
• Tobias Heyduk
• Stephen Murphy
• Katie Bowen
• Deti Nudiati
• Daniella Sally Traynor
• Catherine Ann Cowhig
• Daniella Sally Traynor
• Rachel McCarthy
• Sharon Mary Grady

Creative Connections Initiative

The Creative Connections initiative invites postgraduate researchers to connect with PhDs and Masters' level researchers from other colleges in UCC or other academic institutions to collaborate on creative and academic one-off projects.

Terms and Conditions for Application

• The Principal Applicant must be a registered doctoral researcher at the time of submission.
• The Principal Applicant must download, complete, and sign the application form.
• Applications must be submitted to the CACSSS Graduate School on or before 12 noon on the date given on the Graduate School Webpage.
• Applicants may submit no more than two proposals in a given academic year.
• The proposed event must be held before the end of the academic year in which the application is made.
• All awarded funds must be spent within the six-month period after the successful applicants have been informed of the result of the competition.

Adjudication

Submissions will be evaluated, and awards offered, according to the following guidelines:

• The Vice Head of College (Graduate Studies) will oversee adjudication of the submissions, with a selection panel comprising representatives from the Graduate Studies and Research and Innovation.
• Applications will be scored on four categories:
  • Innovation and originality [30 marks]
  • Feasibility and organisation [20 marks]
  • Strength of the proposal [20 marks]
  • Potential for impact within and beyond the university [30 marks]
• The Vice Head of College (Graduate Studies) will ensure the announcement of results for each round within six weeks of the submission deadline.
• The Vice Head of College (Graduate Studies) will write a short report on each of the submissions adjudicated, and deemed unsuccessful, which will be provided to the Principal Applicant within two months of the date of posting of awards.
• Offers will be made subject to approval by the Head of College.