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History (Structured PhD)

Structured PhD (Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences) (History)

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Course Overview

As part of the doctoral training available on the Structured PhD programme, students avail themselves of a range of interdisciplinary taught modules. The wide menu of available options include modules that:

are discipline-specific in that they augment the student’s existing knowledge in their specialist area
are dissertation-specific in that they supply core skills which are essential to completion of the research project, e.g., additional language skills
acknowledge a student’s professional development e.g. presentation of a paper at an international conference
enhance a student’s employability through generic training, e.g., careers workshops, computer literacy.

Each student will be assigned a primary Supervisor(s) and a Graduate Research Committee made up of experienced researchers to plan their programme of study and to provide on-going support to their research.

The Discipline offers supervision in a wide area of historical interests. Admission to a research degree is at the discretion of the potential supervisor and the head of department, and is based on a proposal from the applicant following discussion with the member of staff whose academic area of interest is most appropriate. Candidates should have obtained an honours degree in History (Second Class Honours, Grade 1 minimum), and for the PhD, would usually already hold a Master’s degree.

Programmes Available

Structured PhD (History)—full-time
Structured PhD (History)—part-time
Applications are made online via the University of Galway Postgraduate Applications System.

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Entry Requirements

Admission to a research degree is at the discretion of the potential supervisor and the head of department, and is based on a proposal from the applicant following discussion with the member of staff whose academic area of interest is most appropriate. Candidates should have obtained an honours degree in History (Second Class Honours, Grade 1 [or equivalent international qualification] minimum), and for the PhD, would usually already hold a Master’s degree.

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If you are still looking for a potential supervisor or PhD project or would like to identify the key research interests of our academic staff and researchers, you can use our online portal to help in that search

Research Areas

Dr. Gearóid Barry: modern and contemporary France, cultural and political history of the first world war in Europe, European pacifism between the world wars, history of religion in modern and contemporary Europe (including popular religiosity), French Catholicism since the Revolution, the origins of Christian Democracy in Europe, Franco-Irish links in the 20th century.

Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley: Nineteenth and twentieth-century Irish and British social, political, and social policy history; women and gender; institutional histories; welfare history and the history of childhood and the family in Ireland.

Prof. Enrico Dal Lago: U.S. social and political history, especially the 19th century; American slavery in comparative perspective; native North Americans, especially the Plains Tribes.

Prof. Alison Forrestal: early Modern Europe, particularly 17thcentury France; history of religion, particularly early modern Catholic culture and society; 17th-century Ireland.

Dr. Róisín Healy: Prussian Poland, 1772–918; Irish-Polish Relations 1772–Present; Colonialism within Modern Europe; Religion and Church-State Relations in Modern Central Europe; Modern European History; Nazi Germany; Coming to Terms with the Nazi Past; Irish Contacts with Continental Europe.

Dr Kevin O Sullivan: International History; the history of decolonisation; the social, cultural and political legacies of imperialism in Europe; humanitarianism; NGOs; globalisation; contemporary Irish history in a global context.

Prof. Pól Ó Dochartaigh: Established Professor of European History. His research stretches across history, literature and politics in a German-Jewish-Irish triangle.

Dr Laurence Marley: Anglo-Irish relations; Ireland's place in the British empire in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries; micro-history

Dr Tomás Finn: Modern Ireland, Irish politics, role of intellectuals, civil society, Church-state relations, public policy, the Irish Diaspora and Northern Ireland.