PhD Scholarships in Digital Arts and Humanities
University College Cork invites applications for 10 four-year fully-funded doctoral studentships with the structured PhD programme in Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH). Successful candidates will be registered with the full-time inter-disciplinary structured PhD programme co-ordinated with an all-Irish university consortium. Candidates will pursue their individual research agendas within the program, based on projects developed from proposals which they provide during the application process. The stipend is 16.000 euro per annum plus tuition.
Subject areas:
Currently fellowships are available in History, English and Music.
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 will create the research platform, the 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.
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 delivered in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Maynooth. 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. Year 4 is devoted to the final research project/dissertation.
DAH at University College Cork
University College Cork (UCC) has a strong track record in Digital Arts and Humanities and has been a pioneer in the development of digital tools for language study and historiography. The College of Arts (CACSSS) has particular strengths in European and Irish history, Renaissance Studies, English language and literature, Music and musicology, among others.
The Department of Music (in the School of Music and Theatre) is strong in practice-based research in composition and performance using digital media. Computers are widely employed in staff and student research for the creation of pre-recorded digital media, live processing, live interactivity, real-time algorithmic composition, improvisation and real-time generative soundscapes. John Godfrey and Dr Jeff Weeter have expertise in the application of computers both to audio and to video art work, and in diverse fields, including contemporary concert music, theatre music, dance music, soundscape, free improvisation and multiple-computer networked creative environments.
Theoretical engagement with digital media is one of the strengths of musicological research in the School of Music and Theatre. Drawing on perspectives from the fields of media studies, film theory and theatre studies, Dr Christopher Morris addresses issues such as the digital manipulation of sound and music in film, the digital remediation of operatic performance (such as live simulcasts to cinemas) and the creation of new forms of opera and music theatre through digital technology. Dr Melanie Marshall investigates gender, sexuality and identities in music (especially relating to early music and to popular music videos). In addition, the School has expertise in music source studies and music-related databases. Dr Marshall’s research project on music and eroticism in sixteenth-century Rome will lead to a database and digital edition, and Dr Paul Everett is currently completing work on an interactive, online database of Vivaldi manuscripts. Dr Everett’s interests encompass digital editions and music encoding.
For further information contact:
DAH Arts Strand Coordinator
Dr Christopher Morris
School of Music and Theatre
University College Cork
Cork, Ireland
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DAH Programme Coordinator
Prof. Brendan Dooley
Professor of Renaissance Studies
University College Cork
Cork, Ireland
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Dr Melanie L. Marshall
University College Cork
School of Music and Theatre
Cork, Co. Cork
Ireland
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Tel: +353 (0)21 490 4629
Fax: +353 (0)21 421 2507
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