- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 4 to 6 Years
Course details
The Digital Arts and Humanities PhD at An Foras Feasa, NUI Maynooth is part of the structured PhD programme funded by PRTLI 5 in a consortium comprising National University of Ireland Maynooth, National University of Ireland Galway, Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork.
What is DAH?
Structured doctoral research-training programme designed to enable students to carry out research in the arts and humanities at the highest level using new media and computer technologies. The ever-evolving developments in computing and their performative and analytical implications have brought about a quantum leap in arts and humanities research and practice. Digital Arts and Humanities is a field of study, research, teaching, and invention at the intersection of computing and information management with the arts and humanities. The DAH Structured PhD programme creates the research platform, the structures, partnerships and innovation models by which fourthlevel researchers can engage with a wide range of stakeholders in order to contribute to the developing digital arts and humanities community worldwide, as participants and as leaders. DAH promotes advanced practical and academic research in the application of new media and computer technologies, and works with industry partners and cultural institutions to ensure knowledge exchange and career development.
DAH at NUI Maynooth
DAH students at NUI Maynooth are part of An Foras Feasa’s research institute which has state-of-the-art research and teaching facilities in the university’s newly-opened Iontas building and a dynamic postgraduate community. Students participate in a collaborative Structured PhD Programme with co-registration in An Foras Feasa and a participating academic department (e.g. English, Music, Media Studies, History, Celtic Studies, Modern Languages). An Foras Feasa specialises in the integration of humanities research with information and communications technologies; particular research strengths in the Institute and its partner departments include digital imaging, digital critical editions, data modeling, digital archives and repository development, humanities computing, software engineering, music technology and multimedia.
Applications to the following sample research areas are particularly welcome:
- Digital Literary Studies
- Data mining Historical Social Networks
- Language and Computation
- Understanding and Modelling Online Identity
- Data Infrastructures for Humanities Research
- Computational Philology
- Aspects and Strategies of Live-Electronic Music
- Spectromorphology and Phenomenology
- Digital Signal Processing and Music Creation
Module
- INTERNSHIP OR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY 1
- SPECIAL TOPICS IN PRESERVATION
- PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE IN POSTGRADUATE TEACHING & LEARNING : TUTORS & DEMONSTRATORS
- PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYABILITY MODULE
- FINDING INFORMATION FOR YOUR THESIS
- ACADEMIC WRITING MODULE
- CREATIVE THINKING & PROBLEM SOLVING
- SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: MAKING A REAL DIFFERENCE
- DIGITAL HUMANITIES: THEORY AND PRACTICE
- MODELLING HUMANITIES DATA
- DIGITAL SCHOLARLY EDITING
- DIGITAL HUMANITIES PRACTICUM
- DOING DIGITAL HISTORY
- QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- ADVANCED COMMUNICATION SKILLS (CONFERENCE PRESENTATION)
- SEMINAR SERIES
- WINTER/SUMMER SCHOOL
- ADVANCED COMMUNICATION SKILLS (PUBLICATION)
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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