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]).