UCC Humanities Platform
The UCC Humanities Platform is working with colleagues in TCD and NUIG to establish the Text, Contexts, Cultures PhD programme. UCC has been granted funding for four studentships under PRLTI.
The Texts, Contexts, Cultures programme revolutionises traditional PhD training. Students in the participating institutions from any of the Arts and Humanities disciplines that comprise Texts, Contexts, Cultures will have the opportunity to develop their research skills in challenging interdisciplinary contexts. They will present their research outputs in multi-institutional and student-led events. Their research interests will develop through a series of foundation year modules which will be delivered at participating institutions and which will avail of online learning media and video conferencing. Research students will have the benefit of wide-ranging guidance from supervisory panels comprised of leading scholars in their fields drawn from the three participating universities.
Texts, Contexts, Cultures is uniquely positioned to prepare students for life after graduation. Participants will benefit from a career training scheme that provides thorough preparation in research skills transferable to a wide variety of settings.
The new programme has been welcomed by Professor John Hegarty, Provost of Trinity College Dublin: “The integrated PhD in Texts, Contexts, Cultures shows that Trinity College Dublin, with its partner institutions University College Cork and NUI Galway, is setting the pace in interdisciplinary research in the Arts and Humanities. Texts, Contexts, Cultures represents an exciting new beginning for higher education in Ireland - and for higher education itself.”
Professor Joe Lee, Director of Glucksman Ireland House at New York University, was similarly enthusiastic: “The creation of the Integrated PhD in Texts, Contexts, Cultures is a long overdue initiative in Irish Higher Education. Placing Ireland among the leaders of research development in the Arts and Humanities, it offers exciting new opportunities for staff and students alike.”