PhD Opportunities in Education 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 ...

Hardiman Research Scholarships at the University of Galway support fully funded doctoral study through the university’s structured PhD programmes in Ireland. The scholarship combines research with teaching modules and skills training, giving successful candidates a supported route into doctoral research. The award provides a stipend and full tuition fee coverage for up to four years. It is open across the university’s PhD subject areas, so the project topic depends on the academic supervision an...

Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Ireland offers the President’s Postgraduate Scholarship Award to its own graduates who continue into postgraduate study at the college. The award recognises strong undergraduate achievement and provides a tuition fee reduction for eligible postgraduate study. A higher-value Gold Medal version is also mentioned, and the award can continue while the student remains enrolled on the programme within the stated limits. The scholarship applies to postgraduate diplo...

The Michael Greene Memorial Scholarship at Burren College of Art supports postgraduate students in Fine Art at a small independent art college on the west coast of Ireland. It offers a tuition fee reduction for students showing outstanding talent and financial need. The award is available to international (non-EU) students accepted onto full-time postgraduate study, including PhD, MFA, MA in Studio Art or Art & Ecology, and the Post-Baccalaureate in Studio Art or Art & Ecology. PhD and MFA stude...

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 Cork (UCC) Futures Scholars Programme 2027 offers funded PhD opportunities for doctoral research across multiple academic disciplines in Ireland. The programme is designed for eligible international applicants who want to undertake doctoral study at University College Cork. Research areas are broad, allowing prospective candidates to explore projects across the university’s multidisciplinary research environment. Scholarship support includes an annual stipend, a contribution t...

Brian Sheil is recruiting a fully funded PhD researcher in Physical AI for the Built World , jointly supervised at the University of Galway and the University of Cambridge through CIRI – Ward & Burke Centre for Infrastructure Research & Innovation . The project sits at the intersection of civil engineering , computer science , physics , mathematics , robotics , and machine learning . Research directions include subsurface 3D reconstruction using physics-supervised learning and multimodal sensing...

Funded PhD opportunity at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences in Dublin, Ireland, focused on digital health , cerebral palsy , co-design , user-centred design , health data , and patient portal development. The project, based in the CP-Life Research Centre in the School of Physiotherapy, aims to explore how people with cerebral palsy and their families use, access, and share electronic health data, and to co-design, develop, and evaluate a digital portal linked to the Irish Cerebral ...

PhD opportunity at Queen's University Belfast in Data-Driven Decisions: Transforming Urgent Care Patient Outcomes and Resource Allocation for the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service . This funded doctoral project sits in the School of Mathematics and Physics and focuses on improving urgent care through predictive modelling , machine learning , spatio-temporal modelling , and stochastic simulation . The research aims to build models that predict patient outcomes and deterioration rates from 999 ca...