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Courses
Courses
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University Life
University Life
Each year more than 4,000 choose University of Galway as their University of choice. Find out what life at University of Galway is all about here.
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About University of Galway
About University of Galway
Since 1845, University of Galway has been sharing the highest quality teaching and research with Ireland and the world. Find out what makes our University so special – from our distinguished history to the latest news and campus developments.
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Colleges & Schools
Colleges & Schools
University of Galway has earned international recognition as a research-led university with a commitment to top quality teaching across a range of key areas of expertise.
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Research & Innovation
Research & Innovation
University of Galway’s vibrant research community take on some of the most pressing challenges of our times.
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Business & Industry
Guiding Breakthrough Research at University of Galway
We explore and facilitate commercial opportunities for the research community at University of Galway, as well as facilitating industry partnership.
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Alumni & Friends
Alumni & Friends
There are 128,000 University of Galway alumni worldwide. Stay connected to your alumni community! Join our social networks and update your details online.
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Community Engagement
Community Engagement
At University of Galway, we believe that the best learning takes place when you apply what you learn in a real world context. That's why many of our courses include work placements or community projects.
College of Business, Public Policy and Law
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.
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Postdoctoral Fellow Expertise |
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Digital Sustainability, Digital Transformation, Blockchain, Hate Speech, Business Analytics |
Projects related to the use of digital technologies for sustainability and operational excellence. Quantitative and mixed methods projects are preferred. |
Ph.D. in Information Systems or related areas. |
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Health Economics, Health Technology Assessment |
Health Economics Evaluation based on Randomised Controlled Trials and/or Decision Analytic Modelling |
PhD Health Economics or Health Services Research |
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Health Economics; Environmental Economics |
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Economics, econometrics |
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Whistleblowing in Organizations |
Whistleblowing Speak-up Arrangements; Whistleblower Partners and Allies; Democracy, Critique and Whistleblowing; Gender, Intersectionality and Whistleblowing; Digital Responsibility and Whistleblowing; Human Rights, Speech Rights, and Whistleblowing; National Security, Government and Whistleblowing |
Literature review, Qualitative and/or Quantitative methods, Conceptual and Theoretical capacity, Experience with academic journal publishing |
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Public international law, human rights, global democracy, gender, queer theory, feminist legal work, identity, culture, critical legal thinking and history of these areas, law and literature (especially Kafka) |
Any project related to the stated research areas will be considered, with clear links in the proposed project to the global/international dimension of any of the topics. |
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Disability law and policy, mental health law and policy, health law |
Projects Related to the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, International and Comparative Disability Law & Policy |
Expertise on disability law and policy, human rights law |
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International and EU refugee law, policy and practice and how these areas intersect with international and regional human rights law; human rights implications of the EU Common European Asylum System and how they are adjudicated by the European courts. |
Exploring the human rights implications of the normalisation of extraordinary asylum procedures in the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum. As Member States prepare to receive the instruments of the new Pact into their domestic legal systems, the project will explore how existing national procedures are being changed, evaluating the changes in light of regional and international human rights law. This may involve exploring a single issue, such as border detention, across all Member States; or exploring several issues, such as border admissibility and border merits procedures, in select Member States. |
PhD in a related area of international or EU refugee law |
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Information Technology Law, Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, Environmental Law. |
Proposals in any relevant fields are welcome but of particular interest are the use of information and communications technology for environmental regulation, the development of open legal data in Ireland, and the environmental footprint of ICT and AI. |
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Gender, Religion and Human Rights, Middle East, Islam in Europe, Access to Justice. |
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Human-AI collaboration, Data-centric AI, Data Spaces, Collective Intelligence, Information Systems |
Investigate utility of human-AI collaboration based on LLMs in legal reasoning, question answering, and other AI tasks. |
PhD in Information Systems, Computer Science or related disciplines. |
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Ageing Social Exclusion and Inequity; Work and Retirement Place and changing contexts Infrastructures of care and support. |
We welcome research projects in areas related to ageing and public policy, particularly on any of the following ICSG themes: · Social Exclusion & Inequity · Work & Retirement · Place and changing contexts · Infrastructures of care and support. |
Social Science expertise; expertise in other relevant disciplines or areas will be considered |
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Social impact of digital technology, online social movement, online activism, new forms of organising, future of work, process and practice theory. |
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