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ulli

UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER
Postgraduate Research Studentship at the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages

A research studentship, attached to the Chair of Comparative Ethnology and 
Folk Life (Prof. Ullrich Kockel), is available at the University’s 
Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages. Applications are invited from UK, 
European Union and overseas students. Applicants must have or expect to 
obtain in summer 2005 the minimum of an upper second class honours degree 
(or equivalent) including an appropriate discipline, such as European 
ethnology, cultural/social anthropology, folkloristics, or cultural 
studies, and should be able to demonstrate skills and experience in field 
and/or archival work at or above the level expected of a good final year 
dissertation in the respective subject area.

Successful candidates will enrol in September 2005, on a full-time 
programme of research studies leading to the award of the degree of Doctor 
of Philosophy.

The studentship will comprise fees and an annual stipend of £12,000 and 
will be awarded for a period of up to three years subject to satisfactory 
progress. The studentship is tenable in the Faculty of Arts at the Magee 
Campus.

The closing date for receipt of completed applications is 17th June 2005

Interviews will be held in early July 2005

Applicants should submit a completed research application form together 
with a research proposal on no more than two sides of A4, outlining their 
initial research questions, sources, and methodology. Proposals should 
address one or more of the following themes; comparative projects will be 
particularly welcome:

       cultural encounters in the context of historical and contemporary 
migrations within the British Isles, and between the British Isles, Europe 
and North America
       religious heritages in Ireland, and among the Irish Diaspora
       heritage, tradition and identity in border regions and other ethnic 
frontiers
       sustainable development of communities, localities and regions, 
involving heritage/traditions as resources
       economy as culture, including informal economy relationships
       alternative lifestyles, including the cultural impact of 
“countercultural” immigrants
       history of ideas in Irish and European ethnology

Application materials are available at 
http://www.ulster.ac.uk/research/rps/forms/rs1.pdf and completed 
applications should be returned to:

Hazel Campbell
Research Office,
University of Ulster,
Cromore Road,
Coleraine,
BT52 1SA

For a preliminary discussion of their project, applicants may contact 
Professor Kockel via e-mail ([log in to unmask]).