- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 4 to 6 Years
Course details
Interested individuals are encouraged to make an informal approach to the Department to discuss their proposal and establish an initial fit between their interests and the Department’s research priorities and expertise. Formally, an applicant wishing to undertake a research degree should submit a research proposal in writing of 3,000–4,000 words and consult with the Department on the general suitability of the research topic, and on the availability of an appropriate supervisor.
The research proposal should provide the following information:
- Introduction to the central research topic that the student proposes to investigate
- Reference to the key debates and issues relevant to the research
- An indication the body of literature that the research will analyse; the main data that will be collected and/or analysed and the methods that will be used
- An outline of the potential significance of the proposed research for the field under investigation
Entry Requirements
- Minimum 2.1 in undergraduate degree. Entry is also subject to Departmental approval of application and the proposed Departments ability to provide supervision.
- Applicants must have a recognised primary degree which is considered equivalent to Irish university primary degree level.
Minimum English language requirements:
- IELTS: 6.5 minimum overall score
- TOEFL (Paper based test): 585
- TOEFL (Internet based test): 95
- PTE (Pearson): 62
Module
- PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATION PROJECT
- CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
- SOCIAL POLICY AND THE SOCIAL PROFESSIONS - CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
- QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- INTERNSHIP
- SOCIAL SCIENCE, THE SOCIAL PROFESSIONS AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH
- SOCIAL RESEARCH DEBATES & PROCESSES
- REALISING RIGHTS: SOCIAL POLICY DEBATES & ISSUES
- GOVERNANCE, ORGANISATIONS, LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE
- PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE IN POSTGRADUATE TEACHING & LEARNING : TUTORS & DEMONSTRATORS
- THE CRAFT AND LOGICS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH II
- TEACHING AND LEARNING IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- THE CRAFT AND LOGICS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH I
- THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT OF YOUTH WORK, COMMUNITY WORK AND LIFELONG LEARNING: POLITICS, POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONS
Course Location
About Maynooth University
This means that students at Maynooth benefit from an international outlook, and those of you who wish to study abroad for a semester or an academic year during yTheir degree have a network of connections to tap in to. During the cTheirse of their academic degree students from Maynooth have studied subjects such as Law at Boston College, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Music in the University of Vienna.
Maynooth has many shared research projects with universities around the world.
- In the Dept of Psychology, Prof Dermot Barnes-Holmes is working with academics in Columbia University in New York to predict the success of cocaine abuse treatment.
- Mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy is working with immunologists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in MelbTheirne, Australia to analyse cell behaviTheir in a study that could have significant implications for Their understanding and treatment of diseases like Coeliac disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.
- Historian Dr Tom O Connor is working with colleagues from the University of Alcala and the Irish Colleges in Spain, discovering the hidden stories of Irish people who got caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.
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