PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in History 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...

University College Dublin invites applications for a full-time, three-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the UCD School of English, Drama and Film. The successful researcher will join PanAsia , a European Research Council-funded project on anticolonialism, Pan-Asianism, and periodical culture in Southeast Asia, c. 1850–1920. The project compares newspapers, journals, and magazines produced across French, British, and Dutch imperial contexts and five interconnected port cities: Singapore, P...

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...

University College Cork is inviting applications for a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Early Modern History to join the DeepCattle project, a 5-year ERC Consolidator Grant led by Professor Eugene Costello in the School of History and Radical Humanities Laboratory . DeepCattle is an interdisciplinary project in global environmental history that investigates the pre-industrial origins of commercial cattle farming across Europe, c.1240-1840 AD. The project examines how the expansion of beef and dairy p...