Structured PhD (Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences) (Old and Middle Irish)

Course Overview

The Structured Ph.D. in Old and Middle Irish is a four-year, full-time or six-year, part-time program of study and research and applicants must have a high honors standard in their primary degree or present such other evidence of fitness as will satisfy the Head of Discipline and the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies. 

As part of the doctoral training available on the Structured Ph.D. program, students avail themselves of a range of interdisciplinary taught modules. The wide menu of available options include modules that:

are discipline-specific in that they augment the students' existing knowledge in their specialist area (e.g. in languages or literature)

• are dissertation-specific in that they supply core skills which are essential to the completion of the research project (e.g. in writing)
• support students' professional development (e.g. through a presentation of a paper at an international conference
• enhance students' employability through generic training (e.g. in computer-based skills).

Students will be assigned a primary Supervisor or Co-Supervisors, and a Graduate Research Committee made up of experienced researchers, to help plan their programme of study and to provide on-going support to their research.