University College Cork invites applications for the a limited number of scholarships in the four-year structured PhD programme in Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) for entry in 2016. Candidates will pursue their individual research agendas within the program, based on projects developed from proposals which they provide during the application process.

Note that the scholarships must be applied for separately from the application for entry to the program.

For Program applic: early acceptance deadline 25 January 2016. Apply for program Ckh 88 at:
http://www.ucc.ie/en/study/postgrad/how/research/

For scholarship applic: deadline 3rd February 2016 http://www.research.ie/scheme/government-ireland-postgraduate-scholarship-scheme-2016

Program general info: http://www.apc.ucc.ie/en/dah/study/
Course details: http://www.ucc.ie/calendar/postgraduate/Doctor/page020.html

Some subject areas:

History, European Languages and Literatures, Renaissance Studies, English, Music, Performing Arts, Art and Art History, Irish Studies, Psychology, Digital Law, and other fields on request.

What is DAH?

The ever-evolving developments in computing and their performative and analytical implications have brought about a quantum leap in arts and humanities research and practice. Digital Arts and Humanities is a field of study, research, teaching, and invention at the intersection of computing and information management with the arts and humanities.

The DAH Structured PhD programme has developed a research platform, structures, partnerships and innovation models by which fourth-level researchers can engage with a wide range of stakeholders in order to contribute to the developing digital arts and humanities community world-wide, as participants and as leaders. Currently the program includes a vibrant community of 50 researchers throughout Ireland.

Programme Structure

Candidates will complete core, training and career development modules, including main modules shared across the consortium and others institutionally-based. The overall aim of the taught modules are threefold: 1) to introduce students to the history and theoretical issues in digital arts/humanities; 2) to provide the skills needed to apply advanced computational and information management paradigms to humanities/arts research; 3) to provide an enabling framework for students to develop generic and transferable skills to carry out their final research projects/dissertations.

Year 1 of the four-year programme includes core and optional graduate education modules. These modules provide a grounding in essential research skills and transferable skills together with access to specialist topics. In years 2 and 3 work on PhD research projects is supplemented with access to elective modules. Year 3 features practical placements in industry, academic research environments or cultural institutions.

University College Cork has a strong track record in Digital Humanities and has been a pioneer in the development of digital tools for language study and historiography. The College is strong in all disciplines of the Humanities, with a particular concentration on Irish and European studies. The Digital Arts and Humanities program currently has 46 students from around the globe, studying topics ranging from Renaissance networking to eighteenth-century country houses, from modern performance art to Irish diaspora music performers in the USA and their stories.
For some typical projects see: http://www.dahphd.ie