Structured PhD (Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences) (Geography) NUI Galway
Price: AED 21,535

    Course details

    Geography boasts a vibrant graduate community of PhD and M.Litt students. It offers an exceptional academic environment for graduate research in a highly supportive setting. Our students hold a range of scholarships and are researching across a perse array of topics. Students are provided with high-quality dedicated workspace and access to a choice of facilities and expertise to assist in their research. As part of the doctoral training available on the Structured PhD programme, students avail themselves of a range of interdisciplinary taught modules. The wide menu of available options include modules that:

    • are Discipline-Specific in that they augment the student’s existing knowledge in their specialist area, for example, in the area of climate change; biogeography; rural, population, or political geography
    • are Dissertation-Specific in that they supply core skills which are essential to completion of the research project e.g. core research skills and techniques relating to specific data collection and interpretation requirements
    • acknowledge a student’s professional development, e.g., presentation of papers at International Conferences
    • enhance a student’s employability through generic training e.g. Careers Workshops, computer literacy.

    Each student will be assigned a primary Supervisor(s) and a Graduate Research Committee made up of experienced researchers to plan their programme of study and to provide on-going support to their research.

    Entry requirements

    For admission to the PhD, an upper Second Class Honours, Grade 1 minimum (or equivalent international qualification), is required.

    Updated on 08 November, 2015

    About NUI Galway

    With over 17,000 students and more than 2,200 staff, NUI Galway has a distinguished reputation for teaching and research excellence in the fields of arts, social science, and celtic studies; business, public policy and law; engineering and informatics; medicine, nursing and health sciences; and science.

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