Texts, Contexts, Cultures
Texts, Contexts, Cultures is an interdisciplinary PhD research programme in the Arts and Humanities. It is delivered in co-operation between research hubs at three of Ireland’s leading universities:
The Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences,
National University of Ireland Galway
The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
The Graduate School, the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences,
University College Cork
Funded by the HEA's Strategic Innovation Fund as part of the Irish government's commitment to develop graduate education, Texts, Contexts, Cultures has been significantly augmented by funds from the all-Ireland collaboration Humanities Serving Irish Society enabled by the HEA's research funding programme, PRTLI 4.
Texts, Contexts, Cultures is a new departure in graduate research and training in Ireland. It offers candidates a multi-disciplinary PhD programme delivered in co-operation between Arts and Humanities research institutes at three of Ireland’s leading institutions - Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork and NUI Galway.
The programme investigates the most basic component of Arts and Humanities research – the text as material object. Texts, Contexts, Cultures has therefore been developed around three core areas of research: Imaging Ireland; History of the book; and Renaissance intellectual history.
Texts, Contexts, Cultures offers a structured four year research path to the completion of a fourth level degree. It allows candidates to engage with the research knowledge and skills of scholars from three universities. It encourages candidates to develop their research interests, ideas and skills in challenging, supportive interdisciplinary contexts. Their research interests will develop through a series of foundation year modules which will be delivered at participating institutions by online learning media and video conferencing. PhD candidates will have the benefit of wide-ranging guidance from supervisory panels comprised of leading scholars in discrete and related fields. There will be opportunity to share and present research at unique academic events.
Texts, Contexts, Cultures will offer candidates extensive opportunity to develop national and international research networks through a series of seminars and colloquia. Participants will also take advantage of the postgraduate exchange scheme available through the island-wide collaboration, Humanities Serving Irish Society.