PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Archaeology in Ireland

The Galway Doctoral Research Scholarship at the University of Galway supports full-time doctoral research within the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies . It is designed for students whose projects sit in the arts, social sciences, or Celtic studies, with examples in the advert including history, geography, archaeology, English, music, philosophy, psychology, sociology, classics, and modern languages such as French, German, Italian, or Spanish. The scholarship is intended for a ...

The Denis Phelan Scholarship is a doctoral research award from the National University of Ireland, funded by Phelan Conan Ltd. in memory of Denis Phelan. It supports one year of PhD research with a cash award of €1,330. This scholarship is linked directly to the NUI Travelling Doctoral Studentships competition, so eligible applicants are considered automatically when they apply for that competition. The award is open across a broad range of research areas, spanning the humanities, social science...

Alan Seltzer is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD researcher to join a new research group at the University College Dublin School of Earth Sciences in Ireland. The positions are part of the ERC-funded TabPhish project, which explores groundwater systems and environmental change using noble gas and isotope geochemistry. The research offers opportunities for fieldwork and laboratory research, as well as collaboration with international partners, including co-supervisor Werner Aeschbac...

University College Dublin's School of Earth Sciences is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Level 1 or Level 2 for a temporary 30-month position in Ireland. The researcher will contribute to TabPhish , a five-year project funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant. The project develops and applies innovative geochemical tracer methods to investigate human impacts on groundwater systems over decadal to centennial timescales, with particular emphasis on long-term changes in nitr...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Biology at Maynooth University, Ireland The Biology Department at Maynooth University is recruiting a Post Doctoral Researcher for the Ancient Woodlands Ireland project. This is a full-time, fixed-term research post in Biology with strong links to Environmental Science , Geography , Earth Science , and Geology-related landscape change research through the use of GIS, remote sensing, paleoecology, and historical woodland analysis. The project aims to build an all-island...

University College Cork is advertising a Postdoctoral Researcher position in the School of Applied Social Studies for the id+ Futures Project . The project is focused on inclusive co-learning and inclusive research with students with intellectual disability in higher education. The role builds on UCC’s established expertise in inclusive, participatory research with adults with intellectual disability. The project is described as a rights-based initiative aligned with the principles of the United...

Maynooth University’s Department of Biology is advertising a Post-Doctoral Researcher position in the Forest Ecology and Global Change lab for the Ancient Woodlands Ireland project. This project aims to build an all-island Ancient Woodlands Inventory for Ireland by combining established methods with new approaches. The work brings together GIS , remote sensing , paleoecology , contemporary ecology , and history to examine changes in woodland cover over the last 400 years and support woodland pro...

University College Cork is advertising two 3-year postdoctoral positions on Professor Eugene Costello’s ERC project DeepCattle , which investigates the emergence of commercial cattle farming in Europe and its impacts on the economy and the environment. The first role is in Early Modern History , with a focus on archival manuscripts in Scotland and Ireland . The second role is in Palaeoecology , with a focus on pollen analysis and sedaDNA , and includes collaboration with the Centre for Palaeogen...

University College Cork is offering a 36-month fixed-term, full-time Postdoctoral Researcher position in Palaeoecology within the School of Archaeology and the Radical Humanities Laboratory. The post is part of the DeepCattle project, an ERC Consolidator Grant-funded research programme that investigates the deep history of commercial cattle farming in Europe. DeepCattle aims to trace the origins and expansion of beef and dairy production in rural Europe, and to understand how these changes shape...