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Expand+The School offers a small number of teaching assistantships as funding becomes available. However, other possible sources of funding are detailed below:
Irish Research Council.
Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI).
College of Social S...
Hide-The School offers a small number of teaching assistantships as funding becomes available. However, other possible sources of funding are detailed below:
Irish Research Council.
Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI).
College of Social Sciences and Law Graduate Research and Innovation Fund
The School of Geography is currently offering two PhD scholarships (EU fee rate waiver for up to four years). In order to apply for the scholarships, students must submit a PhD application via the online submission system. Details of that process can be found here. Please state clearly in your application that you are applying for the Geography PhD Scholarships, and in addition to all required documentation also include a detailed research statement (ca. 4,000 words) and indicate a potential supervisor.
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| Course Content |
Expand+The School of Geography conducts research on a variety of issues in human and physical geography. School research is diverse but it coalesces around interventions to address real world problems guided by strong theoretical foundations. In particular,...
Hide-The School of Geography conducts research on a variety of issues in human and physical geography. School research is diverse but it coalesces around interventions to address real world problems guided by strong theoretical foundations. In particular, the School has been very active in its focus on environmental issues and social justice, from both critical and technical perspectives. For example, on the human side, staff expertise includes urban and international development geography, geopolitics, spatial justice, public policy, critical theory, sexualities and gender geographies, historical geography and cultural geography. On the physical and environmental side, staff expertise includes environmental assessment and change, environmental risk, planetary and river geomorphology, climatology, GIS and remote sensing.
The School's culture is inclusive and all staff, postdoctoral researchers, PhD and Masters students participate in research. The school runs an exciting research seminar series and innovative research events driven by postdoctoral researchers.
Our Research
Research in Geography focuses on better understanding complex relationships in the social and natural worlds, as well as between them, as they undergo significant transformation and adaptation. The School of Geography has an active research culture and agenda with the goal of delivering research excellence in human and physical geography by sustained specialisation, emergent international exploration, and interdisciplinary collaboration within and beyond UCD.
Research Masters and PhD programmes
Our flagship research degree is our structured PhD programme. The structured PhD focuses on the completion of taught modules in conjunction with a research thesis. This has proven to be highly successful and enables our PhD students to achieve the best possible experience of graduate research and training. Making a substantial and original contribution to knowledge, normally leading to peer-reviewed publications remains the core objective of doctoral studies in the School.
The School also offers a series of Master’s degrees by research in the major disciplinary area of Geography. The normal duration for completion of a Master’s degree is 1-2 years.
The structured PhD includes several measures designed to support you in achieving your academic and professional objectives. One of these measures is the requirement of each PhD student to have a Doctoral Studies Panel. The purpose of the Doctoral Studies Panel is to support and enhance the supervisor-student relationship, to monitor your progress during the course of your doctoral studies and to provide advice and support both to you and your supervisor(s). The panel consists not only of your supervisor(s) but also additional advisor(s). A further measure of support is the requirement in the structured programme to complete at least 30 credits of graduate taught modules at the early stages of your study. Thus, each student gains important experience not only in research but also in broader academic field of study.
The School of Geography offers two Research Masters programmes. These degrees are suitable for students who want to carry out research either with the view to progressing towards a PhD degree in the future or simply gaining the skill set that accompanies investigative research. The two degrees on offer are:
• MLitt (Human Geography)
• MSc (Physical Geography)
The Research Masters Programme includes several measures designed to support you in achieving your academic and professional objectives. One of these measures is the requirement of each student to have a Research Masters Panel. The purpose of the Research Masters Panel is to support and enhance the supervisor-student relationship, to monitor your progress during the course of your doctoral studies and to provide advice and support both to you and your supervisor(s). A further measure of support is the possibility to complete taught modulesat the early stages of your study.
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