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

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.