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College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions are the European Union’s reference programme for doctoral education and postdoctoral training. The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fund excellent research and innovation and equip researchers at all stages of their career with new knowledge and skills, through mobility across borders and exposure to different sectors and disciplines. MSCA are open to all domains of research and innovation and encourage international cooperation to set-up strategic collaborations.

See below a list of the supervisors particularly interested in hosting MSCA PF candidates.

Name of Supervisor	Research Areas	Proposed Projects	Postdoctoral Fellow Expertise
Dr. Ciara Egan	Cognitive Neuroscience, Dyslexia	Examining wellbeing in neurodiverse university students in Ireland	Background in psychology/neuroscience, interest in or experience of working with neurodiverse participants, statistical skills and data wrangling (preferably in R)
Dr. Chris Noone	Health inequalities and experiences of health and wellbeing in the LGBT+ community. Challenging the narratives of risk and vulnerability that are often perpetuated in relation to our community by mainstream medical and psychological research. Keywords: Health Inequalities; LGBT+ Health; Sexual Health	Investigating Increases in STIs in Europe from a Systems Theory Perspective	Quantitative and qualitative skills
Dr. Edward Herring	The archaeology and history of pre- and early Roman Italy, especially South Italy; intercultural connections in early Italy; ethnicity in antiquity; South Italian red-figured pottery; South Italian Matt-Painted pottery; Etruscan black- and red-figured pottery
Dr. Pádraic Moran	Cultural history from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages (fourth to ninth centuries AD). Education, scholarship and language interaction in Latin, Greek, Old Irish, including manuscripts. Glosses and glossing. Digital Humanities (digital editions and databases; Natural Language Processing).
Prof. Anne O'Connor	Translation history, institutional translation, religious translation, multilingualism and non-professional translation	Projects that link with research methodologies currently in use in PIETRA/MISTE/VICO. See https://translation.universityofgalway.ie/	Translation Studies; languages; sociolinguistics; corpus linguistics and translation
Prof. Chaosheng Zhang	GIS; Environmental geochemistry; Soil; Spatial analysis; Environment and Health; Medical Geology; Heavy metals	Spatial outliers, hot spots and spatially varying relationships in soil geochemistry.	GIS, Spatial Analysis, Machine Learning, Soil Geochemistry
Dr. Anna Gasperini	Children's literature and culture; Medical and Health Humanities; Comparative literature; Food Studies; Historical and Contextual approaches; 19th century to present
Dr. Manuela Heinz	Diversity and equity in education, cultural responsivity in education, teacher education, education leadership	Transforming Teacher Education: Developing Cultural Humility and New Pedagogical Approaches for Transcultural Responsiveness.	PhD in Education, Sociology or Psychology