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[ecrea] 12 funded scholarships available for PhDs in Digital Humanities and Digital Arts at NUI, Galway

Thu Apr 21 16:32:00 GMT 2011




12 funded scholarships available for PhDs in Digital Humanities and Digital Arts at NUI, Galway

NUI Galway is pleased to offer 12 funded scholarships for its Digital Arts & Humanities (DAH) programme. DAH is a full-time four year inter-disciplinary structured PhD programme co-ordinated with an all-Irish university consortium: National University of Ireland, Galway; Trinity College Dublin; University College Cork; and National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Additional teaching contributions to the programme will be made by Queen's University Belfast; University of Ulster and the Royal Irish Academy. The programme also includes contributions from its industrial partners, Google, IBM, and Intel. Six scholarships will be offered for PhDs in Digital Humanities within the Moore Institute for Humanities and Social Studies and six for PhDs in Digital Arts within the Huston School of Film & Digital Media.

Ø Digital Humanities

Applications are invited in two clusters:

(i)    Creativity at the Edges

(ii)    Culture and Location

Proposals may consider the cultural location and archival holdings of NUI Galway. Proposals are encouraged in, but are not limited to, the following areas: Tim Robinson; the Druid Theatre Company; Cúirt; Tom Kilroy; John McGahern; Jack Yeats; linguistic, musical and cultural geographies of the west of Ireland in global context; tourism and culture; the environment. Discipline is open.

For further information on Digital Humanities please contact Professor Sean Ryder,
_sean.ryder@nuigalway.ie_ or www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute.

Ø Digital Arts

Applications are invited in two clusters:

(i)    Galway and the international - West coast culture in the digital age

(ii)    Digital media practice-based research.

Proposals may examine questions such as: how arts practices on the west coast of Ireland act as a contact zone between the local and the international? Ideas and histories of the region can be seen in relation to wider contexts as people move in and out of the rhetorics of authenticity. In what way do specific digital arts practices offer forms of resistance to the impositions of a global image system? How can research and experimentation explore the intersection between artistic creativity and technological innovation? What forms can writing take in the digital age? How has the specificity of the digital changed the form, structure and function of narrative?

Although there would be emphasis on practice-based doctorates in both these areas we will continue to be open to traditional academic formats.

For further information on Digital Arts please contact Dr. Rod Stoneman,
_rod.stoneman@nuigalway.ie_ or _http://www.filmschool.ie/_.

Applications should be made online at the Postgraduate Application Centre: www.pac.ie/nuig - Course reference code: To Be Confirmed

Closing Date for Applications is Friday, June 17, 2011.


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