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The School of History and Geography at Dublin City University is a research-active school with a vigorous faculty willing to supervise PhD students on topics in their areas of research expertise. DCU is ranked as one of the top 100 universities under 50 as per Times Higher Education. The School of History and Geography is a new school in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science whose staff possess a strong research track record in Irish and European History, the Historical Geography of Ireland, social and physical Geography and geopolitics.
The School offers a full-time four-year PhD programme with a range of taught courses in the first year and further professional training in other years. Applicants are invited to undertake PhD research in any area of Irish History, Environmental History, the History of Science and Medicine, Modern European History (particularly the history of Eastern Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries); and Irish urban or rural historical Geography, Irish geomorphology, Irish water resources, remote sensing and geopolitics.
Outstanding candidates will be offered scholarships valued between €21,000 and €27,000, which covers all tuition fees, (EU or non-EU), plus an annual stipend for living expenses of €15,000pa, (which is usually tax free, after some Revenue formalities) for up to 4 years, subject to satisfactory academic progress, which will be reviewed annually. As well as a tax-free stipend, students may be supported with limited funding for conference and research travel. The School also provides its PhD students opportunity to participate in the teaching of the School.
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